We all want revenge, we have all had something, or someone, do something terrible and we all wish and hope to get back at them. Hoping it will solve the issue and the hurt caused that we actually trusted them in the first place at all. While Derek laid in prison, raped, and utterly broken from the inside out, Dr. Bob Sweeney asked him “Has anything you’ve done made your life better?”. Derek then put his head down in shame, he had finally realized after so many years, that hate and revenge never really made him happy, and he was never truly satisfied with any of the choices he had made in life. Even near the end of the movie, they point out the same concept. Both brothers had gone to their room, and in slow motion, they had taken down all their racist and prejudice posters. Then Danny sat down, and he wrote how he had finally, after such a long time, seen the sun come up rather than down every night. How he was finally happy, along with his family. Revenge is never the answer to happiness, we must let go of what holds us back in life in order to move forward. But a second theme they had laid out through this entire movie …show more content…
But what about the present colors, they make the overall setting a type of fall like coloring with brown and dark colors, before then switching it to bright spring ones that ends the movie. The color scheme itself ties more to Danny rather than Derek, and the growth he must go through to be able to see the beautiful Spring colors he had seen as a kid. It is used in the entire movie, from the way he sees the world, he sees it in dull colors, where everyone is like leafs and slowing leaving him, and in a way, he feels alone. More specifically it is used before Derek actually sits down and tells Danny his story. They go to the party and everything is dull and just loud as if it’s a Halloween party. Then Danny catches up with him