The ending of YOU

[Chives99]

I  can imagine leo would come and wack me with a monks staff like they do in meditation halls in temples for talking about a netflix show, but the ending really speaks to me. The main character Joe who is a psychopath kills people and locks them in a glass box out of 'love' and tells himself they didnt't deserve to live as they didn't value love and something 'good'. In the end the sweet girl whom he imagined she was, was actually the same psychopath he was and he HATED it and whilst he was trapped in the glass box he said "ohhhhhh so this how my ex felt when i trapped her and tried to kill her, then actually killed her" its like his mind woke up to his own bullshit and he understood how everyone he killed felt and that they didnt deserve to die, empathy was taught by experiencing it for himself. His psycho girlfriend whom he thought was a sweet girl was a female version of him, he met himself. The beginning quote reads 

“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake That will be punishment as well as the prison.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

 

the sums up karma :your prison is your identity, you are held hostage by trying to defend it and you punish yourself by keeping yourself there

Edited January 23, 2020 by Chives99