Who thinks Freddie changed? Who thinks he is the same animal he ever was?
I like the way this dude put it, from the
article Cloudy posted on the previous page:
"Like “There Will Be Blood” the film ends when a son figure must accept or reject the father figure. By this moment Freddie Quell has under our noses experienced what all heroes in novels are supposed to, he has experienced change. He knows himself. He will go drink, but he will not be controlled, at least by men like Dodd. And that’s a lot of freedom."