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jeroeno
Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing!moviewizguy
Werner Herzog + Nicolas Cage = wonderful entertainment you can't get anywhere else.guffaa88
Watched this again and caught something about the ending, then read this guy's interpretation online and it confirmed it:They then proceed to bust the heroin dealer and Nicolas Cage's character takes the high road and makes sure he's arrested instead of having an "accident". Later we find his girlfriend is pregnant, they have a house and his whole family has given up alcohol. We even find out that the man he saved at the beginning of the film is clean and getting his life on track.
There are hints that he's still his bad self. He's snorting dope, he's harassing kids that are coming out a night club, etc, but overall it's very much a "Disney ending", with everything working out well for the lead character.
My question is this: Is this ending real or is it really the last fevered fantasy of Nicolas Cage's character as he's dying from a heroin overdose?
There are many references to the uncut heroin being too strong to take without being cut. Nicholas Cage's character mentions it to his girlfriend right before she tells him she's going to a meeting with his father. The gangsters tell him that he needs to cut the dope "unless you wanna kill the motherfucker". We see Nicolas Cage's character clearly snorting a line with the bag sitting next to it before the "Disney ending" starts.
The ending also feels much too saccharine, especially for someone like Herzog. Also notice that when the "Disney ending" starts, the criminals that come in are talking about highly illegal activity, like murder, theft, gambling, prostitution and drug use, all while sitting at his desk without regard to discretion. There is even a scene where his bookie hands him $15,000 in cash, shows him the contents with his partner sitting in the desk next to him, clearly within earshot and line of sight of his partner sitting in the next desk.
Another interesting fact is that Nicolas Cage's character is leading the arrest of the heroin dealer even though he's been pulled to the sidelines and had his weapon confiscated.
Even the last scene, where he is sitting at the base of a large aquarium tank full of fish, can be interpreted a few ways. Perhaps it can be interpreted as "swimming with the fishes". There is also a reference to sleeping and dreaming, suggesting a tie to the original poem he found by the murdered child ("My friend is a fish. He live in my room. His fin is a cloud. He see me when I sleep.") with also the standard metaphor of death and sleep.
Suddenly finding the spoon supports this theory as well
jrkinnard
I love this crazy little movie!ignatzkat
Nick Cage has a hunger that can only be cured by chewing every last bit of scenery he can find.Mackmannen
Hard, fast and intensive.8/10.
Someone put a leash on the cageman ffs!
jo027
Just awesome 8/10Earring72
Better than expected. Cage was really good!!!!JCS
Crazy but goodV012
The last two lines of the film were nothing less than brilliantdiegoivan
@moviefreak The best line of the movie.aussieflickfan
Still not sure about this - the tension built to a high pitch around halfway through the film and there is a twist. The last shot makes you wonder what has happened. I'll wait a while before I revisit it.Duke of Omnium
Not a terrible film, but what the heck did it have to do with Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant? In making Nicolas Cage a more conventional antihero, Herzog gutted the weirdness that made Ferrara's film so distinctive (not great, mind you, but very distinctive)patato
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Okay this site suppose to have every movie ever made cause the original Bad Lieutenant from the early 90's was awesome !!! Harvey Keitel best next to playing "THE WOLF" in pulp fiction.Showing items 1 – 15 of 18