"The movie opens with a brief prologue. A family is driving at night. They hit something on the road, which turns out to be a dog, and the dog dies. The daughter in the back seat is visibly upset. The mother consoles her by saying, "It was just an accident-Dad didn't do it on purpose." Then the title appears, and the main story begins."
"The film unfolds as a meditation on revenge, justice, and chance. We are introduced to various characters, and it gradually becomes a kind of road movie, punctuated by moments of dark comedy amid high stress and uncertainty. Eventually, the protagonist is forced to make a moral choice. I won't give spoilers, but since finishing the movie, like a fish bone stuck in my throat, I keep coming back to one question. Why did the director choose this title?"
"It is a glaring contradiction. The protagonist moves through a whirlwind of confusion-randomness, conflict, dread, and moral ambiguity. There is no clean resolution. But there is one thing that isn't there: an accident. The viewer knows this because, in the end, the protagonist is given an opportunity to make a dichotomous choice in an eerily quiet, almost theatrical, and biblical scene."
The film opens with a prologue in which a family hits and kills a dog, prompting the mother to console her daughter by saying, 'It was just an accident—Dad didn't do it on purpose.' The main story unfolds as a road movie that meditates on revenge, justice, and chance, mixing dark comedy with high stress and moral ambiguity. The protagonist navigates randomness and conflict before facing a stark, dichotomous moral choice in an eerily quiet scene. The title creates deliberate contradiction that forces reflection on agency. Accidents and randomness are distinguished from intention, and honest naming of choices enables growth without self-blame.
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