It seems like the answer is simple after watching the movie - but certain things still get stray me off from a direct answer. People always think they are the exception. Don't deny it. You (whoever is reading this), you think you are special.
I know I think that I won't get caught up in a killing parade and kill my closest ones. But how true is that? Sure, maybe I am not a killer. And sure, I've never even had the desire to kill someone but am I capable of it? Once again, the answer is: sure.
And that's what's really scary about "the Simple Plan".
The fact that that could be anyone.
You don't necessarily have to be a killer to kill.
You don't have to be a stealer to steal.
And worst of all you don't have to be good if you are a good person.
Which is what really made this so-called "simple plan" so ironically complex. The fact that until you are left with the one person you truly trust (yourself) everyone else must go.
Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
Your statement about good people not necessarily leading "good" or virtuous lives sparked my interest. A person is essentially created by ones environment and upbringing, but inside somewhere always lurks what we truly are. So many amazing characters throughout movie history have proven this point."Leather Face", from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, is clearly only doing the incredibly atrocious things he does because of his sick father who tells him to do it. An ongoing facial skin condition and a tendency of self mutilation made him into an outcast. But his fathers influence truly turned him into a monster. Another character is "Francis Dolarhyde" or the killer from "Red Dragon" is absolutely vicious ; butchering entire families and yet in the end you feel sorry for the man. This is because the demons he struggles with in the movie were the cause of a very abusive and traumatic upbringing. It is very clear that he does not want to the person he is. When he meets the woman that he loves, whatever good was left inside him, from the years of torture, began to battle the demon that his grandmother had created in him. There are many characters like this, as well as seemingly good characters that are in fact pure evil. It is scary to think how little control we have over our lives.
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