What El Camino does, perhaps even without meaning to, is refocus the ending of the story on the damage that Walt did.
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He got to trick his family into taking his money, he got to free Jesse and feel like a hero (despite it being his fault Jesse was there in the first place), he got to die on his own terms, he got to kill all his enemies and he never really had to surrender the power he had assumed.
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If I had a quibble with the series finale - and I did - it's that Walt really got to run the show after everything he did. I'm not sure those who watched Breaking Bad needed more reasons to understand why Jesse Pinkman eventually killed Todd Alquist, but if you did, El Camino gives one to you.īut one of the most compelling things about Breaking Bad is that it's always tried to be a very moral show, and this is in many ways a very moral movie. He even says a few kind words about her as Jesse helps him bury her body in the desert, so certain is he that having murdered her has nothing to do with how he feels about her. The flat affect that Jesse Plemons has always given Todd is what makes Todd so hateful just as Todd figured killing a young boy who showed up at the wrong moment was just sort of obvious and no big deal, he figures Jesse will understand that when his cleaning lady found his money, he obviously had no choice but to kill her. Instead, he includes an illustrative anecdote in which we learn that while Jesse was locked up, Todd (Jesse Plemons) took him out of his cell and forced him to go on an errand: disposing of the body of Todd's cleaning lady, who had the misfortune to find Todd's hidden money.
Writer-director Vince Gilligan uses flashbacks of Jesse's imprisonment but is wisely sparing with them. The images of Jesse putting the pistol up in the shower window, and later stuffing it in his waistband while it drips water, are hugely effective in explaining how terrified he is.
He's come for help, and his friends give it to him Charles Baker and Matt Jones are very good as Jesse's dumb but basically loving friends, who feed him and get him into the shower - into which he brings his gun. The early scenes of the film find Jesse, still brilliantly played by Aaron Paul, almost catatonic, stumbling up to Skinny Pete's and interrupting Skinny and Badger's game night. And as much as El Camino is a movie about Jesse on the run from the police after the shootout that killed everybody else who was there (including Walt), it's also a movie about Jesse's profound trauma. Without Walt, he would not have wound up spending months imprisoned by a violent gang of white supremacists who locked him in a cage and beat and tortured him, killing his girlfriend while he watched in order to discipline him and threatening to kill her son if he tried to escape again.
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