Spoilers on a 20 year old film - a mini rant about the reason behind the murder
My wife and I watched this for the first time last night. When the younger brother was introduced I commented that he must play an important role in the story because making the character deaf/non verbal was a choice. Shortly after we learn that his brother (boyfriend of the murder victim) learned sigh language to communicate with his brother. Cool - so that character being deaf is to show that the brother is genuinely a kind person and isn't capable of killing his girlfriend.
Later we learn they were planning to go to Vegas. Wife and I both concluded "I bet the younger brother did it because he didn't want his older brother friend to leave him" Makes sense, right?
Thats what ends up happening...only Kevin Bacons character explains to Sean Penns character that the brother and his friend confessed and that it was a totally random accident where the gun went off.
Are we supposed to buy that? Was jealousy the actual reason but they just didn't admit it? Am I dumb and am missing something entirely? (Probably the latter)
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/115m1fj/mystic_river_odd_choice_for_motive/
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