judgment night theory to explain something that bothered me upon watching the film. there will be spoilers
i think maybe the real reason fallon pursues the four protags has very little to do with teddy's murder and everything to do with class warfare. when fallon and co catch teddy, they have every opportunity to do as they please with him. the guy is probably 100 pounds soaking wet and fallon's got a stronger guy on either side of him. they don't have to kill him right then and there: ergo, there doesn't have to be anyone around to witness it. fallon, who is obviously aware of the rv's presence, could have easily gone over and tried turning up the charm to convince the middle class pricks that there was nothing to worry about, just a business misunderstanding, but everyone's cool here now and they should be on their merry way. the crew probably would have jumped at the opportunity, seeing that teddy is safe at least for the moment. then, once they've peeled out, fallon can cap teddy, brush off his hands, and call it a successful day now that he's got his money back and only one body to clean up
BUT! the OTHER thing that fallon already knows is that these guys are, in fact, middle class pricks, because he saw their license plate showing that they're from a nice area. so potentially, he figured that if he doesn't waste any time with teddy and gets the job done while the pricks are watching, that activates his "no witnesses" rule and gives him a fair cause (or, y'know, "fair" by his standards, anyway) to hunt and kill them. this plays into the film's larger overall commentary about tensions between the lower and middle classes in u.s. cities, something which plays out particularly in fallon's interactions with the four and especially frank. as the film goes on, we see fallon become almost obsessed with frank, constantly revisiting the info he has about the man from looking through his wallet and using it as a means of berating and emasculating him. part of that is a dick-measuring competition, but even that competition is a factor in the class commentary; fallon asserts that frank's comfortable lifestyle makes him less of a man than someone who makes a living on the harsh and unforgiving streets like himself
this idea also explains why fallon is willing to effectively break the same rule he uses to justify all of this. throughout the movie, he creates a whole lot of witnesses in the process of pursuing the four. not necessarily witnesses to murder, but certainly to plenty of other crimes, all while brandishing his gun proudly. also, because the cops are established to not give a shit about the people living in the projects the film takes place in, fallon doesn't really have any need to worry that he'll be busted for any of this stuff even if the four did rat to the authorities. none of it follows the internal logic upon which fallon's rules would seem to suggest he is operating. i think instead he is acting on the bitterness of someone who has it hard seeing people who have always had it easy entering his territory and fucking with his business, and that's why he pursues them doggedly right until the end
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Looking Ahead - Valentine's Day - Mars conjunct Pluto in Aquarius
On Valentine's Day Mars will conjunct Pluto in Aquarius
February 14, 2024 at 1:05 am ET, at 0°46’ of Aquarius (There's that 46 again).
Mars = The Tower (energy, change, volatile, aggressive, destructive, powerful force...)
Pluto = Judgment (death, destruction, rebirth, transformation, evolution, revolution...)
Aquarius = The Star (collective consciousness, humanity, future...)
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A Message to Ahaz
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
3 Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7 Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
10 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
— Isaiah 7 | King James Version (KJV)
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Cross References: Genesis 14:15; Genesis 18:8; Numbers 16:9; Deuteronomy 1:39; Deuteronomy 28:49; 1 Kings 12:16; 2 Kings 15:25; 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Song of Solomon 8:11; Isaiah 5:17; Isaiah 8:12; Isaiah 8:15; Isaiah 14:30; Isaiah 55:13; Ezekiel 12:20; Matthew 1:23; Matthew 7:16; Matthew 24:6; Luke 2:12; Acts 4:25-26
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