My husband and I finally finished Better Call Saul last night (late, I know) and amongst all of the other emotions that are still whirling and flying through my brain, I can't help myself but to keep coming back to this one shot.
I don't know if anyone has brought this one up before. (Probably, but I'm gonna gush about it anyway.) This very brief shot during the courtroom scene during the final episode is on screen for maybe three or four seconds. It's right before things get started, and yet this one shot tells me exactly how the rest of the scene is going to play out.
Kim, as we have been told prior to this scene, has opened herself up to a civil suit from Howard's wife by confessing everything that happened the night of his death. She did the right thing, came clean, but is now in danger because of it. Saul lures her to the courtroom under the pretext of confessing something about that night that may negatively effect her.
Is he really going to betray his ex-wife like that?
Take another look at the screenshot. It's a view of Kim through some metal artistic detailing in the courtroom, but it looks just like she's in the firing sight of a rifle, right?
Except she's not centered. If this were a gun the bullet would miss her.
So now I know, before the rest of the scene even plays out, Jimmy isn't going to hurt her. Despite everything that has happened he still loves Kim, and his love for her is his redemption.
Love finally got through and made him decide to change.
Maybe this feels more obvious or on the nose to some people, but I feel like this shot was such a small detail and yet said so much in only a brief moment. It's the little bits of artistic genius like this scattered throughout all of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul that just simply pierce my heart, and probably why this fictional universe will stick with me forever.
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Not my average content I post but I just realized this and had to talk about it. This is so devastating 💙😭
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Nacho's ever so slightly wondering look when the nice dude in the auto repair shop hands him that soap and towel to clean himself up and keeps being nice to him (he gives him clothes offscreen!!)... this is the worst day of Nacho life, he's a dead man walking, he's a bundle of nerves and angst and then some random guy sees he needs help and just gives it for free. Must feel surreal.
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