Spontaneous Musings

I would have been satisfied with either ending. I won't begrudge Clayton (or the writer/director) his moment of clarity and then ultimate redemption. There's enough setup for it (even though Gilroy is bonking us on the head with the SYMBOLISM! of the horses). But I thought Arthur's moment of clarity was handled better, and Clayton's suffers by comparison. Arthur had been neck deep in legal shit for years, he's gone off his meds, he's attracted to one of the plaintiffs in a madonna/saint sort of way, and it all erupts in this one horrifically funny demented moment of ultimate truth.