Symbols and Tropes
Pigeons and Hawks
Pigeons: not the most beloved animal. They're called the rats of the sky. Rats with wings. Gutter birds. Flying ashtrays. Gray cloud-dwelling trash-monsters. (We may have made the last one up.)They...
Crucifixion
Crucifixion's definitely not the way to go. It's insanely painful. It's insanely prolonged. It's insanely humiliating. It's pretty much just insane. (Those Romans weren't big on clean, quick deaths...
Terry's Walk to the Warehouse
Terry goes from accidentally helping a murder at the beginning of the movie to being a symbol of redemption at the end. Not a bad character arc for a washed-up ex-boxer, eh? After doing the right t...