What does Gary King's wristband signify?
In The World's End, Nick Frost's character Andy notices this wristband that Gary King was wearing.
I suppose that it's connected to the Alcoholics Anonymous-like support group meeting towards the beginning of the movie. But what does it mean exactly? What is he suffering from? Are we given any clues during the support group scene?
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The answer is hidden below, because it is spoiler-ish. These are things that were inferred.
Simon Pegg's characters has a wristband because he was in a hospital because he tried to kill himself, the group that he was in was a support group to help him deal with things. This all comes out when Nick Frost see's the bandages on the wrist and asks what happened and Pegg replies that everything was supposed to be awesome after they graduated and it never got any better.
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What does Gary King wear?
He wears a black trench coat, a black shirt, trousers, and shoes. Gary also has a Sisters of Mercy tattoo on his chest and a scar on his arm.What car does Gary King?
Gary King, a 40-something loser played by Pegg, screeches up to pick up his former school pals in a battered British Ford Granada known in the movie as "the beast." (The European Granada sedan, a U.K. icon and sold there by Ford Europe from 1972 to 1994, is unrelated to Ford's late 1970s car by the same name in the ...How Worlds End ended?
At the end of the movie, Andy is narrating. We've been through sort of a nuclear holocaust and right at the very very end, Andy admits to missing Gary. So it's taken all of that for him to actually sort of romanticize the past. Then on top of that, Gary will never know this because they don't see each other again.The TRAGEDY Of Gary King | The World's End
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Answer 2
Watch the movie with the commentary on, Simon specifically says that his character, Gary, was committed to treatment after trying to commit suicide. Also, Gary's journey through the Golden Mile was also a suicide mission, he didn't care if he lived at that point as he had nothing to live for.
Answer 3
It's possible to get the medical wristband for overdosing, but it doesn't tie into the story or his character as well. Those are the bandages they give you if you attempt suicide by slitting your wrists. If you survive the attempt and the doctors are able to save you, you'll definitely have that bracelet. That's why he didn't want to raise his sleeves up earlier in the movie, that's why Andy reacts more softly to that revelation: "You need help Gary"
Andy knows Gary is an alcoholic, Andy knows he does or used to do drugs. That isn't a surprise and doesn't tie into the themes of the film or the conversation they have. The emotional climax here is when they reveal the reason for Gary's fixation on the Golden Mile, and the depths of his depression that led him to attempt the ultimate act of escapism from his misery.
This and the scene just before it in The Hole in the Wall are two heartbreaking scenes that give such incredible depth to his character, and create more empathy between me and a fictional person than I can recall feeling.
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