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Originally Posted by revots33
I actually don't mind that there wasn't a big reveal or conspiracy. However having the old one eyed black dude show up and explain everything, was terrible.
I think the main theme was about memory. A lot of the show was about people forgetting, or trying to forget. Or trying to remember.
Hays talked to Amelia about not remembering Vietnam. Clearly not true, he just tried to forget it. The scene in his room where the Vietcong surrounded him was showing the memories were still there.
The last scene with Amelia was a happy one, where they made up and he told her he wanted to marry her. I suppose the decision to not show how she died, was a reflection of Hays' desire to forget.
I think some of the other random scenes (Hays dropping his daughter at college, Amelia teaching at the college) were just random fragments of memories coming to him as he is succumbing more to his dementia. The final scene of him disappearing into the jungle was likely a metaphor for this as well.
I mean I think this is right. The point was here is this sort of bumbling guy who is not really changing the course of much as much as floating along. He is kind of weak in general. There is no part of the case where the cops do anything of value at all or even come close to figure out what happened. The entire investigation does nothing but create many more victims. In the end, nobody even gets close to the real story no matter how hard they try or how obsessed they are. He finally figures out the truth and he forgets immediately. None of it mattered except for the considerable damage it caused. Got it.
But I stopped rewatching The Wire for the 5th time to catch the finale and that was a mistake for me to give that hour and 15 minutes up the same way it was a mistake for them to give their lives up.