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Avery Tolar's Death
posted by GForce59STAFFMOD on October 15, 2017 at 9:04 PM
I had always assumed he was killed by the firm. But while watching it with my wife today, she suggested he may have committed suicide. Devasher said he wanted Tolar taken back to Memphis, so why would they have killed him?
Reply by Smitty1776
on October 15, 2017 at 9:20 PM
Interesting that you read it as a murder initially. My assumption was that he committed suicide. I don't remember all the specifics, but I got the idea that his interactions with the wife kind of pushed him over the edge.
Reply by GForce59
on October 16, 2017 at 8:08 AM
He was being decent with her. He didn't take advantage of him, and that her doing what she was doing for Mitch was better than her being there to see him...so he was also putting himself down. When she asked him, "What are they doing to do to you" and he said, "whatever it is, they did it a long time ago," my take on that was he was going to die. They ended his life when they told them what the firm really was. But I still didn't get a sense that meant he was going to take his own life. But now it make sense.
Reply by Smitty1776
on October 16, 2017 at 12:39 PM
Well, I suppose it could be taken either way. Like I said, I don't remember the specifics. I wonder how it went down in the book.
Reply by GForce59
on October 16, 2017 at 12:50 PM
I read the book first, which is outstanding...but the movie is very different from the middle of the film on. I don't even remember if that whole copying of the files goes down in the book.
Reply by Smitty1776
on October 16, 2017 at 12:57 PM
Ah, I see. I've thought about reading the book. I might try it sometime.
Reply by GForce59
on October 16, 2017 at 1:10 PM
As much as I love the movie, the book is beyond sensational. I read it in three days...which for me is nothing short of a miracle.
Reply by Smitty1776
on October 16, 2017 at 1:13 PM
For me as well. I'm a very slow reader, and if I remember correctly, The Firm is practically a tome.
Reply by GForce59
on October 16, 2017 at 1:45 PM
Something like 500 pages I think.
Reply by GForce59
on April 25, 2018 at 4:14 PM
OK, so you've had some time. Did you read it? :)
Reply by Smitty1776
on April 26, 2018 at 8:42 PM
Haha, no, I haven't. I've been moving at less than a snail's pace in my reading lately, I'm ashamed to admit. I have, however, watched the movie again - not too long ago, actually. :)
Reply by GForce59
on July 26, 2022 at 8:44 AM
Ok…four years later. Have you read the book? 😀