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Shipnalysis: The Juror
Overview:
Vincent is a cold murderer who never needed anyone, except Annie. He has found someone just as intelligent and daring as him in her. Someone worthy to care; someone he would be willing to share his life with.
And, although never admitting it, Annie sees what he sees: Too much of herself in him. It takes a lot of guts and deviousness to convince a whole jury to release the big head of mafia, lie for the police, mislead the system’s justice to make your own revenge and plan to murder someone.
Vincent talk about freeing Annie is also a fact she wouldn’t admit to be true. From the beginning, Annie is a talented artist, but has to work as a secretary sitting on a chair in front of a computer. This is the woman that went to Guatemala to kill a member of the mafia. Her spirit was being broken on that chair, afraid she would never sell her sculptures, afraid she would spend her days in front of a computer desk until she died. She fells like a bird in a cage, trapped in a unwanted job and a mediocre existence.
Then Vincent enters her life and forces her to face all kinds of fears. Not entirely, but there were honesty on the woods scene, when she tells him "I hate you and I hate it more that you were right”. Fear made her stronger. All the trials he imposed to her reminded her once again what she was capable of. It brought back up a strength she had long forgotten.
Vincent frightens Annie, but he also challenges her. When she faces him, confidence and the sensation of being alive comes back again. A small piece of her, the piece that can’t stand to live in fear anymore, admires him because he overcame that long ago. A piece of her is fascinated by him, as well as terrified and hating.
Scenes:
MOVIE
Vincent is a psycho, but every scene he shares with Annie has a romantic atmosphere: the scene on the balcony, like forbidden lovers meeting in secret through a fence; a valentine’s gift, when Vincent gives Annie a necklace, for he would be with her whenever she wore it. The bouquet? I can’t even talk about that.
There are these moments when for everything they sound like a married couple. When he scolds her for being too hard on Oliver; when she flees and he says “She just need sometime to be alone” (Sounding like a guy left by his wife); when she is making a tantrum in the woods and tells him to whip that condescending smile of his face.
And I don’t know about you guys, but the car scene seemed a allegory for sex to me!
“Who is going to protect you, Annie?“
"The teacher. The teacher will protect me.”
“Uhg? Who is going to protect you?”
“The teacher. The teacher will.”
“Say it again.”
“The teacher will protect me.”
“Again, again.”
Then she screams and next they are heavy breathing
What we know about Vincent:
He grow up in the same neighborhood mafia’s big heads grew and it was probably a poor, at least a modest neighborhood.
He was friendless since as a child, but he never minded that.
He never minded anything, in fact. Louie Boffano says he knew him for 10 years and Annie was the first thing he ever saw made a impact on Vincent.
He doesn’t even blink when he murders a young boy. This + Anti-social, apathetic behavior presented since childhood. We can by now affirm Vincent has a slight level of sociopathy.
He admires Annie’s art and believes she is the owner of a talent unjustly overlooked. He is also thrilled by the fact that her work tells some much about who she is, that getting to know Annie’s art is getting to know Annie herself. Vincent keeps the pieces he bought and is very protective towards them. When he was about to kill Rodney, he spoke calmly until the visibly drunk visitor touched them.
When Vincent tells the girl on the photos, Annie, is his girlfriend to outwit Rod, he wishes it would be so. In a kind of way, she is to him. She is the woman he is daily getting to know and falling all the more in love with.
He is uneasy, but impressed that Annie found out he was The Teacher by first guess.
Vincent sees his experience with Annie as a marriage: going through the harshness together and willing to do anything to keep their child safe.
When Vincent kills Juliet, he means not to just keep Annie scared, but as a payback for convincing her to see the judge, which he sees as Juliet making Annie betray his trust and place Oliver and herself in danger for her own “hero complex” reasons.
Once Annie cleans her bank account and disappears, Vincent is afraid she is gone for good. When he says “She would never betray us”, he actually meant “She would never betray me”.
“Annie is in great danger and her child is in great danger and I will do everything that I can to protect them. Now what part of that don’t you understand? I can explain it to you.” is his way of telling the world that he loves her and Eddie practically tells him to keep his sick ideas of love to himself. Is like wanting to vent with your best buddy about this girl you’ve met, but he is not willing to hear you.
Vincent was willing to broke his agreement with the Cabbal, kill Boffano before the time planned and the entire mob, besides burning the money he won for coercing Annie, to save her. At one point, coercing Annie was not about the payment anymore, but to keep her safe from the rest of the organization.
OMG He is fucking crying because she tried to kill him! You didn’t just betray him --you set up his death! After all he had done for you! My baby!
I’m sorry, I know he is a killer, but think about the other side: Exactly because he is a cold murder, when he cries over someone, you can say how much that person meant for him. There is a quote “Just because people don’t love you the way you wish they would, doesn’t mean that they don’t love you with all their being” Vincent love was dangerous and not at all reconcilable, but it was real. He deserves to burn, doe.
Vincent knows there is no chance he will ever get out of that Maya ruin alive when he pulls that gun towards Annie. To be printed in her memory is good, but to die with her. Teacher and the Juror, Romeo and Juliet... Yes, to take Annie with him would be his last wish.
Two short moments you won’t like to miss when you watch the movie:
After Rody leaves his place, Vincent hears Annie on the speaker and holds the rod.
Vincent heavy breaths when Annie unbuttons her shirt and reveals her bra to take the police recorder from there
When he is asking Annie “If Louis Boffano didn’t order the killing then who did?” at their meeting in the rain, he sits besides her and his hand almost reach hers before he stops himself.
BOOKS
It’s canon in the book that Anne is attracted to dominance and danger. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) She rejected Turtle to shortly date Oliver's father, the singer on Turtle’s band with a drugged rock star attitude. He had none of his friend sweetness, but he had a sense of control, and she dig into him so fast she became pregnant and he left her in a few months.
One thing lovely about the book is the metaphors: how Vincent talks about Annie while actually talking about apparently unrelated stuff.
“You must keep showing her you love her. Sooner or latter, she will get rid of the padlock. In the mean time, at least you know she is not sleeping around.” He is stalking her so... yeah, he knows she is not sleeping around as well.
“We strip away the gilt and the jewels. We teach him what the world is really like. We crush those lights one by one. It won’t be easy. It’s not a matter of slapping him around a little. It takes great suffering and patience and persistence to change a things at the soul’s core. But once he learns this lesson, I believe that he’ll be grateful for it. Or I hope he will. Despite his anger. Despite his bitterness.”
“The Teacher is tending the orchids, discipline where needed. [..] How quickly, without nurturing, living things will lose their shape. Their clarity, Their order.”
This is right after he has to remind Annie what she was risking by talking to the judge. There is a clear dichotomy in this story between chaos and order, respectively represented by Annie and The Teacher. Order stands for Vincent's design and chaos for Annie’s struggle to be free from it. Chaos will prevail, as I talk about latter on this post.
During Boffano’s trial, doe, chaos is controlled through fear. Vincent strips Annie from her morals boundaries and proves to her what she really loves is not the law or social justice, but the people close to her. Nevertheless, that same lesson pulls her off the edge when he fulfills his threat and kills Juliet. Vincent thinks keeping her scared will also keep her compliant, but Annie is the type of heroine a villain can only press that much: the harder you push her, the harder she pushes back. That is what he loved about her in the first place. With Vincent’s “lessons”, she sees through the fear that he will also kill Oliver, sends him to Quatemala and takes the risk because a beloved person was finally killed, and if Annie doesn’t retaliate because she is scared it will happen again, she will be afraid for the rest of her life.
“All you care about is your kid and your work and a handful of your friends - and if the gray suits can’t protect these, then who needs the gray suits?”
Another well-learned lesson: Annie doesn’t involve Boffano’s death and the police task with it’s legitimate procedure into her revenge plan against Juliet’s death because it was personal, but also because she had lost fate in the State's interference. Although Annie is a moral person who fought to do the right thing in Boffano’s trial before succumbing, she was just a woman against the mob. She could afford to see the bastard free; she could not afford her to have her best friend’s murderer walking free and terrorizing she and her child for life. Not realizing this was Vincent’s probably only mistake. At the same time, he showed once again they were not so different. That, although she has more boundaries than him, by the end of the day, they are ruthless in their love.
The book confirms that, after her experience with Vincent, Annie doesn’t recognize herself in her old art anymore: everything seems frivolous, warmhearted bric-a-brac. Her next piece is a house made of sharps of broken glass: stumble and you get cut. She embraces the tension she has been enduring for the last weeks through her sculpture. She opens up to fear. And it’s clear like a house with glasses filled with sunshine. Not a corner is dark and mysterious; everything is neat, all organized by some finicky spirit.
Annie knows Vincent better than anyone. Besides knowing he wouldn’t touch her and find the wire, she says the reason why she is certain he will never quit her is the same one Vincent’s gives to Eddie: “What we have been through is like a marriage”. She also knows he won’t kill her even when he is racing her and Eddie with a gun.
“Does it seem depraved---my fascination for that man?”
The Teacher says this, but it actually speaks to Annie. Like I’ve said before, their last meeting in the woods is a part in which Annie has to play with honest feelings towards him to get his trust. Yeah, she is fascinated by him. She knows Vincent himself was the one to give her the weapons to defeat him. And there is no one else she hates more for it.
Funny thing, that quote is a chapter’s title, the same chapter in which the author makes the reader question if Annie has fallen for her stalker. Before returning from Quatemala, she quotes the Teacher saying their relationship was like a marriage, the police officer is afraid “she been jumping through that bastard’s hoops so long she’s starting to like it” and Eddie wonders as he watches Annie betraying the police and get into Vincent’s car what is about him that gets to every woman. She also gives him way more reasons to hope in the book and it’s Annie herself who pulls the Teacher into a kiss. Until she shows Boffano the tape and goes like “Don't waste any time” HEY YEAH Not my Annie, bitches! Not my heroines, they don’t go Stockholm no sir
Vincent makes clear to Annie he wants to leave the mob and his ambitious plans and marry her. I’m dead.
The main difference between book and movie is the race to reach Oliver in Guatemala. First of all, Vincent’s original plan when he kills Boffano was not to protect Annie. In the book, he finds out about her betrayal before the meeting through his in-tell and that Boffano wants to take him out on that day. I prefer that in the movie his first idea was to save Annie and that we could see his face when he is told “The woman you think is the love of your life wants you dead”.
Vincent reaction to her betrayal is also more passionate on the movie. Vincent calls her half-drunk and with tears in his eyes. In the book, he seems to be walking with his wife to their son’s funeral. She doesn’t want to go, and he is like “Honey, we must do this. We must attended to the details”. He is sorrow, he is afraid for her and for him when they see the body, everything tastes bitter, but he has to keep control for both of them. He is understandable of her struggle to accept “the facts”, he is sad for her, but that doesn't seen like a reaction of a sane person. He takes his agency away from what's about to happen so sincerely that you'd think Book!Vincent is crazy if he was not full of bullshit.
Movie!Vincent will fulfill his threat of killing Oliver because power means to promise something and deliver it (The Way of Power is an unvarying way); Book!Vincent, on the order hand, believes him and Annie are tolls on the plans of something bigger. He is going to excuse himself from Oliver’s death by believing he was playing order’s role and Annie was playing chaos. When chaos tries to corrupt the rules and they become unbalanced, the Tao rages and order must be reestablished. But chaos can’t help it; it’s her nature. She would fight him and he would have to kill her child for it. Chaos struggles against the grip and order is invariable in her way, predictable. When Annie tries to take Vincent out, he “realized” they were doomed from the start and have been fighting like fools against that true. Movie!Vincent also thinks that, from the moment his path crossed with Annie’s, Oliver would die, but he doesn’t turn this into something mystical or religious. Annie, treacherous and stubborn in her fight, and him, abiding in his words as well. Two people how could not change who they are. I like this intimate zoom on the situation better.
Movie!Vincent also seems to be moved, as I’ve said, by his emotions more than Book!Vincent. He is hurt, therefore he is going to be the man he has always been. Keep his word of killing Oliver is not only about his own integrity, but also a matter of self-defense. Annie made Vincent believe they could change everything and be together, and next she shows him he was the only one willing to take a step forward from the mess they have been. The hope she might had some sort of feeling for him was a trick. Annie played with his emotions. It’s like “Ok, you wanna go back to stage zero? Fine with me”. Spoiler alert: It’s not.
He has tear in his eyes because her son is about to die and she is confused and struggling like a child. I CAN’T.
Even while he is shooting at their car in his way to kill her son, he is praising her courage.
Vincent wants to be near when she finds Oliver’s body, to comfort her. Because that sad moment belonged to them. WHAT IS THAT EVEN?!
Also, shows up out of nowhere and “Annie come into the car. Annie wanna be with me? Annie. ANNIE.” I swear, he is the Jaime Lannister of this book.
Vincent is killed by a firing squad of men in animal’s mask. The circumstances of his death is chaotic, as he states himself, like he is in a zoo. In his last moments, he tries to quote something from the Tao, but for the first time, he can’t think of any charlatan Philosophy, not among so many distractions. For a guy who relied on the calmness of “Taoism”, seems like the right death to me.
In the last seconds before his death, he thinks he has Annie under his persuasion again and he is about to convince her to leave him for the cops... till he says “for the sake of your child”. She was triggered, as was the gun in her hand.
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