I never thought that I would be seriously analyzing how crazy and mentally disturbing a comedic film is.  Do I necessarily agree that it’s psychographic or that H.I. is schizophrenic?  Not so sure about that.

I would like to point out that H.I. talks about himself dreaming all of these moments in the film, but the audience never is shown a scene that is cut-and-dry that he fell asleep or woke up from such a dream.  We do see that he lays in his jail cell and listens to his cellmate talk over and over again.  Then we see the camera focus on him and his thoughts, so it seems to me that maybe it’s more of a series of daydreams.  What I mean by that is dreaming usually involves your subconscious making things up for you and a daydream is something that you can control in that moment.

You notice that when H.I. tries to steal diapers he isn’t successful and wasn’t caught.  Stealing the diapers was his thought process on taking care of his family the only way he knows how.  He could be coming out of this daydream when he is sitting in his chair at home empty handed because this big chase scene never happened.

I definetly think that most of these events that go on in this movie are made up in the imagination of H.I.  Things like nobody getting shot during the action scenes, the hole outside the jail, the calm demeanor of the characters that play a minor role in the film, all would never happen in real life.  When you daydream and can control the situation you are able to solve problems and consiously struggle back and forth with yourself .  I think that is what H.I. does by justifying his actions with characters like Smalls or creating the thought to have the law enforcement, Ed, steal the baby. 

He wants to lead a good, normal life, but he needs to learn to do that considering he has had nothing to do but go in and out of jail.  He does this by righting all his wrongs before getting out of jail so he won’t do all the wrongs that he has already daydreamed about.  So, psycho?  I don’t think so.  I think that maybe he just goes through the same struggles everyone goes through by decided right from wrong.  It just may seem a bit schizo to you or I because we aren’t repeat offenders with a 4th grade education,or have a name that resembles a common American greeting.

PS…..sorry this was so long