I'm sure this is old news, but Oswald's notes are killing me, this petty bitch! The notes for Fish are no surprise, if a little teen serial killer-ish, and unfortunately I can't quite make out what Falcone's says, but Mayor James with the dunce hat saying "oink", Bullock's saying one thing to be replaced with the kill note, the newspaper photo of Bruce at his parents funeral with "cry baby Brucie". Its so catty. It's so unnecessary. Oswald, honey, c'mon now. And then Jim's label being "Stooge" with three exclamation marks because he's Dramatique like that and Barbara's labelled "lying slut." Gurl please, it's basically the Burn Book. Seriously, spot the difference.
C plot: a torrid love/hate affair between a disabled machivelian mob boss and an autistic serial killer with DID. Spanning decades and including genuine friendship between two evil misfits, caretaking, jealousy, betrayal, political plots, murder of love rivals, attempted murder of eachother, love confessions, bi panic, identity crises, grave robbing, death traps, drug fuelled erotic hallucinations, jailbreaks, vendettas, flashy outfits, high camp public displays of obsession, trust shattered and rebuilt, self sacrifice and mutually assured destruction.
This has probably been pointed out a million times by now, but it's still amazing to me how this scene is set up to look like a marriage proposal.
He gets down on one knee. He pulls out a box. He opens the box, and then he throws its contents into the river at the bottom of which Oswald's corpse is laid to rest (to Ed's mind, anyway).
It's just like that scene in the "Corpse Bride". And immediately after that, we see Oswald come back from the dead, just like the corpse bride did.