Talk:Boy Wonder (film)

Ending

The previous version of the plot synopsis read "He put an empty envelope, a red stamp and a black stamp together with the letter, and asked Larry to reply him with them: black stamp for his father's guilty, and red stamp for his father's innocence. The red stamp (representing his father being innocent) was poisoned with Tricelaron while the black stamp wasn't. He wanted to give Childs a chance to come clean about it by telling the truth but instead Childs chose to lie and therefore got himself killed."

Unless some authority, such as an interview with the screenwriter, can be cited, there is no way of knowing whether this is the intended explanation of what the audience sees. Nor is this explanation very believable. Childs is the primary murderer, and Sean has been planning to poison him since long before he had reason to suspect his father of collusion; it seems more likely both stamps are poisoned. Nor does Childs have any motive to shield Sean's father if he decides to reply at all; his reply may mean the father really is innocent. (Some of the killer's dialogue during the murder, "It's too late, Rock," is consistent with the wife's murder being a punishment for the father's failure to pay a loan shark, for instance. The way the father talks to the mother's grave, or his reforming himself after her death, isn't very consistent with his having conspired to murder her, either.) But the story is open-ended. All we can see on screen is that at least one of the stamps is poisoned, and that the reply was a red stamp. Unless the screenwriter has given more information elsewhere, that's all that can be said. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mandrakos (talk • contribs) 10:38, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Mandrakos (talk) 23:43, 28 December 2014 (UTC)