Are you talking about the movie or the book? In the book he gets the girl, so being a toxic schizo worked for his personal life. In the movie they succeeded in destroying the credit companies, so the message is that embracing cultish violence is 100% effective at getting important shit done.
Let's be real, they blew up a few skyscrapers. It'll make the news for a few weeks to few months (depending on how many innocent people die), have a memorial made, insurance companies will cover the losses for the credit card companies, and those companies will just go back to business as usual in a month's time.
In the worst case, some sleazy politician will use that tragic event to pass some draconian legislations to make the country into a surveillance state, which certainly wouldn't have happened already in the real world, right?
The most "shit" they will have gotten done is becoming terrorists and getting hunted by the entire country.
Can you tell that I am old, curmudgeon, cynical, and soured on the childish "blow up something important and everything is fixed" fantasy these days?
The most realistic depiction of a similar action is Cyberpunk 2077: Johnny Silverhand "blew up" the Arasaka building, and it just came back and built another one in the same spot later.
Edit: I got carried away a bit so I'll actually respond with something more relevant.
so the message is that embracing cultish violence is 100% effective at getting important shit done.
Basically what I am trying say with so many words is that the part about being able to get "shit done" with cultish violence falls apart with any degree of foresight, longer-term thinking, and rationality.
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u/BlindingDart 23d ago
Are you talking about the movie or the book? In the book he gets the girl, so being a toxic schizo worked for his personal life. In the movie they succeeded in destroying the credit companies, so the message is that embracing cultish violence is 100% effective at getting important shit done.