There is no subtitle for chapter four, but if there was one, it would be "Death Becomes Him." Ultimately, the list of victims grow and along the way the allegories emerge clear.
From large groups of people remaining sublimely unaware of their surroundings, to a numbing list of people willing to sell their souls for money, the core message becomes quite clear.
There are things more important than money. When you sell your soul to other men for their money, you end up being trapped in a circle of evil. Life, such as it is, in such a situation, erodes ones humanity.
Throughout the series, there is a constant refrain, "Rules. Without them we live with the animals." Uttered first to imply a lowering of human standards when one breaks the rules, the series chugs along until the reality sets in firm in this episode coda.
If animals are the ones living free, and the humans are living as slaves by the rules, then the rules lower the humans. The rules represent a great tyranny and must be ended. Arise the agent of retribution, his name is John Wick!
Where the movie bogs down is in the volume of the retributions, which seem repetitive despite great efforts to find original ways to slaughter people. It's all for a movie's purpose, to further the lesson through metaphor that man is meant to live free!
In the end, whatever time one has to live free, it is worth the effort, given how living at the whims of others isn't living at all.
From large groups of people remaining sublimely unaware of their surroundings, to a numbing list of people willing to sell their souls for money, the core message becomes quite clear.
There are things more important than money. When you sell your soul to other men for their money, you end up being trapped in a circle of evil. Life, such as it is, in such a situation, erodes ones humanity.
Throughout the series, there is a constant refrain, "Rules. Without them we live with the animals." Uttered first to imply a lowering of human standards when one breaks the rules, the series chugs along until the reality sets in firm in this episode coda.
If animals are the ones living free, and the humans are living as slaves by the rules, then the rules lower the humans. The rules represent a great tyranny and must be ended. Arise the agent of retribution, his name is John Wick!
Where the movie bogs down is in the volume of the retributions, which seem repetitive despite great efforts to find original ways to slaughter people. It's all for a movie's purpose, to further the lesson through metaphor that man is meant to live free!
In the end, whatever time one has to live free, it is worth the effort, given how living at the whims of others isn't living at all.