Breaking Bad 2
By Steve
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White Anger, I can understand it. White Anger is not just focused on minorities. White anger is also against other whites. We saw this in "Falling Down."
The initial transformation of Mr. White into a cruel, sexual man is very fast. It is too fast. After his first taste of the lifestyle of a drug dealer, he begins to regret it. But it is too late. His sexuality has opened. It's a Pandora's Box. He is no longer the passive observer of sexual favors. His wife feels his power too and responds to it. One can almost hear an "Olala."
Mr. White does not really know what he is turning into. He is turning into a monster. There was all that anger buried in his "ID." Now he actually begins to realize what he is inside of himself. The student who is flunking his class and selling meth has become his partner. They are incredibly angry at the fakeness of middle-class life. Middle-class life, in "Breaking Bad," is portrayed rather sentimentally. John Updike and others have written about middle-class life. Middle-class life has become a sexual hangover from the 60's.
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