Thursday, March 12, 2009

Midnight Cowboy

There were a few scenes from the movie that either bothered me or I found really weird. The first one was when Joe is in the diner sitting across from who you can assume are a mother and her kid. They are rubbing a fake mouse all over each other's faces and hair. I remember thinking as I was watching, "What the hell is going on?" Another part that annoyed me was that even though Ratso and Joe were as good as friends as any two people could be, Joe wouldn't stop calling him Ratso even though he knew Ratso loathed it. He continued to call him Ratso, instead of Rico, for the rest of the movie. The last thing is how nonchalantly everyone on the bus takes Ratso's death. They never checked his pulse to see if he was just unconscious, and nobody called the ambulance. Nobody else besides the busdriver even said a word. They just looked back for a minute while the bus was stopped.