But I feel that the only one with a conscience, and it can be said that the closest normal person in the film is Chris. The director gave him a lot of positive descriptions.
As for Dottie, I feel like she's a little mentally handicapped... Anyway, she doesn't know anything, she doesn't understand anything.
That's right, it was Chris who first proposed to kill his mother and divide the spoils.
But the reason for this was that his mother stole and sold his drugs, causing him to be heavily in debt, and also kicked him out of the house. Under the anger and despair, he was used by his mother's lover, so he had a wicked mind.
Later, when he regretted, he also said, "No matter what, he is my mother, and I can't hurt her."
When he looked at his mother's body with a shocked and regretful expression, he could also see that he still had a little emotion for his mother. .
Looking at his sister, he is clearly in love with his sister. Dreaming of Dottie walking towards him in his sleep at the beginning was a good proof of this.
But he restrained the development of this mentality and always regarded Dottie as his sister.
Just like the idea of mother-killing in the first place, Chris will lose his head and lose his self-judgment when it comes to a pinch. So when desperate, he still agreed to take his sister's "deposit" for Joe.
But in the end, he repented and wanted to take his sister away and escape from this absurd and desperate Texas. This also shows his morbid dependence on his sister.
So if there's still that glimmer of humanity in this suffocating film that everyone's twisted and absurd, it's coming from Chris from time to time. At the end, when everyone was besieging Chris, I felt like what the director wanted to express to us—humanity being stifled in a twisted desire—probably that’s it.
I thought the gun in Dottie's hand could give me a pretty perfect ending, but who knows...
When Dottie shot Chris covered in blood, I was like "Hey, what the hell is going on? ?" for a moment... I feel that all the hopes for the film have come to an end... I
have to say, director, you are ruthless.
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