Any analysis you would recommend of JVtV? Does the volcano represent that Joe has to overcome the imagined fears that is preventing him from growing in life?
Thanks. This analysis really show me how I didn't understand the movie despite enjoying it on a superficial level. It's even better than my first impressions.
Does it need to? The whole premise is that he hates his “relatively” cushy factory management job enough to think jumping in a volcano is a better use of his life.
I wonder if there is a worse way to go? I mean even getting your skull crushed in car accident seems lights out in less than a second. Jumping into a volcano I can imagine you stay alive for some 10 seconds or so before you obviously pass out but not before tasting lava in your stomach.
For starters, he quit his job before the volcano opportunity came up. He choice was never "keep working or jump into a volcano."
He quit his job because he'd just been told he had just a few months to live, and didn't want to spend them like that.
Finally, he didn't have much money. He could either scrape by in his apartment for a few months, or go on a grand adventure and die just a little earlier than he would have anyway.
