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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's not a convincing change, he goes from superficial and cocky privileged billionaire to cocky privileged billionaire with extra toys.

It's ugly both times and just seems fake. There's no gravitas or nuance depicted.

A character (when written well) is easy to identify with because they have human and well detailed moments that almost fall out of their context and into a universal context - a shopping bag breaking, a relative or pet dying, a childhood trauma, a shoe that gets a pebble in it, a shitty boss, being dumped... Having an addiction.

Strippers on jets and being captured by terrorists?

Nah. Like I say, he ends up essentially where he started. Also, I don't really believe that he got rid of the strippers. Like I don't really think he stopped viewing women like that. It wouldn't have surprised me if they were still present at the end of the film. In fact, I think it would have been more honest if they were.