This is the first film I remember watching after Robin Williams died in early August 2014. Before that, I last saw him in the Crazy Ones, a one season long TV series co-starring Sarah Michelle Gellar who was Buffy in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
It is about 2 AM Friday morning now, the 23rd of January 2015. I'm watching this in my room at Old Ink, 219/9 Pham Ngu Lao, Q.1, TP.HCM, Vietnam. My name is Joey Arnold, born 7 AM Monday, 1985-02-11 in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon State, USA.
In this film, The Big White, it begins with a sad story of a lawyer or some kind of young adult male who is trying to make ends meet with his girlfriend who is a hotline psychic worker or scam artist.
Robin Williams plays a middle age man with a sick crazy wife. They are poor and they need money. She has a disease and she needs treatment. He loves his wife and is willing to do what Walter White did in Breaking Bad. When you love people, you are willing to die for them. Like William Wallace said in Brave Heart, "You may take our lives but you will never take our freedom." Like Leonardo DiCaprio said in Titanic to the blond, "Never Let Go (NLG)."
Robin found a dead body one day and snuck it home. They live like in Alaska or in a cold place somewhere in a small city. He stuck this man in his fridge in the basement and locked it. His mentally challenged wife tried putting food into the fridge but it was locked. Robin was able to lie to her about it or something. She did not think too much about it and she did not see the body inside the fridge. Later, he tried pushing the body down a mountain on skis but that didn't work. He was trying to make the body look like his brother and make the death look like an accident. First, he told people that his brother was back in town. He dressed up like his brother and ploughed (like cut the grass but with snow) a neighbor's yard. He said to the neighbor that it was his brother.
He later put meat over the body and a bear or some other wild animal ate up some of the body.
Eventually, Robin was able to get one million dollars from the life insurance that they had. There was that man who tried really hard to disprove it. He was on to him. He knew that Robin was faking it. It also seems that Robin's wife was faking it as well and that she didn't really have a disease maybe. Later, some people kidnapped Robin's wife and demanded the body and some money. Robin lied and said that he was only getting $100,000 and they asked for half of that. They were like part of the Mafia or something.
Out of nowhere, Robin's brother appeared and was very upset and drunk. The two siblings talked and as the brother slept, Robin tried to shot him but couldn't. Robin changed his alarm clock and snuck out to pay the ransom for his wife. His brother awoke and was able to find them. As he came, he ran into the insurance man and beat him up.
The brother was going to shoot Robin but shot his wife in the back as Robin's wife was walking away. Robin told his wife to walk away. Robin ran to her as the brother fought with the Mafia people which got him shot. Robin's wife was saved by the money in the coat she was wearing. The bullet got caught in the stacks of money in the back of the coat. The brother died and the insurance man confronted Robin. They went into a car and played the listening game. The insurance man and GF decided to look the other way and to work on their own relationship together.
Empathy is key.
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