What do you think about the relationship between Thomas and Victor?
Watching the movie, it seems like Thomas and Victor have a hate/love relationship. While Victor seems to despise Thomas throughout scenes, Thomas does come in the clutch, and he does help him. For example, when Victor needed money to go get his fathers ashes and remains, Thomas asked to go, and offered him a jar of money. It is thomas' loyalty and cheerfullness that keeps Victor from hating him throughout the story. Through Thomas, victor also finds ways to look at his father in a better light. This brought Thomas and Victor closer together, securing the relationship.
So we can see although the relationship seems like it is full of hate, and at times Thomas does annoy Victor, we can also see love between each other, and feeling of attachment. I feel that without Thomas, Victor wouldn't have gone through a life changing experience.
Hi Tyler,
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to me why Thomas keeps persisting. Victor pushes a lot of people away, but Thomas remains his friend. The love and admiration Thomas has for Arnold seems to be the reason he's always there for Victor, even when Victor doesn't know he needs him. It's an interesting move in the film that the very incident that causes Arnold's downfall, the fire, is also the incident that links Thomas and Victor; it both causes their hardships and it sets the foundation for their bond.
Lauren
Hi Tyler,
ReplyDeleteI think you are so right, Victor needed Thomas to go along on this journey with him to heal from a lot of anger and hatred. I think Thomas kept the goodness about Victor's dad alive through his stories. I cannot remember one scene that Thomas said something bad about Victor's dad. I enjoyed your writing. Thanks. Barb
Hi Tyler,
ReplyDeleteI like the way you put some things in your response such as "Through Thomas, Victor also finds ways to look at his father in a better light." I have never thought about it like that and it's interesting. I enjoyed your response. Thanks,
Brittany
I like the point you made: "I feel that without Thomas, Victor wouldn't have gone through a life changing experience." I think that was a great observation. It seems that Thomas was a huge influence in the development of Victor's character.
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ReplyDeleteI can agree with you about how Thomas did offer to pay for them to go collect Arnold ashes and of course Victor said fine. It did seem like Victor did use thomas for the moeny, but at the end he ended up realizing they had more in common then he wanted to admitt. There realtionship is a bit akwrd i think its a little humorus. Good Blog.
Myra A.