anyway people rightly reference the first quote in regards to this but I like how later it's turned around and remains completely applicable pic.twitter.com/e014S65HkF
— 10k Motivated Rats (@bombsfall) July 1, 2022
Exactly. Those two scenes are paired explicitly, though a lot of peple don’t know how to read movie language so they don’t understand that.
I absolutely love Kelly Macdonald in this scene. One of the best movie performances of all time. And even though she dies, she’s the only one in the entire film who manages to get the better of Anton. It’s not revealed in the movie, but I think the coin flip actually goes against him in the film but he kills Carla Jean anyway, thus violating his own principles in an attempt to refute her. But the invalidation of his perverse ideals has already occurred as his reliance on the coin is, as Carla Jean understand perfectly, just an excuse for his sadism to be unleashed.
There’s a reason I watched that scene about two dozen times. Such a great lead-up to it, amazing performances by both actors, and a perfect callback to the scene with Carson Wells and Anton.