So, this may be a widely-discussed thing, but in a Clerks 3 rewatch, I just realized something that may have gone over my head with every other viewing: In the end of the film, when Dante is drunkenly weeping about Rebecca dying and says "one drunk driver later and my story's over!" Was Dante the drunk driver responsible for Rebecca's death?? Is this the implication?? Any other viewing, I've always taken this as she was simply hit by a drunk driver. But in his delivery and the fact that he's wearing the same clothes as he is in the flashback to Rebecca being rushed into the hospital...idk...something about it just clicked and it makes his arc make more sense, to me. What's your take on it?
No, otherwise the whole movie would have been about him grappling with the idea he killed the love of his life.
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novemberchild71Mar 23, 2026
I beg to differ. I guess that, even then, the whole movie would still have been about Kevin Smith grappling with the Trauma of suffering the "widow-maker" of heart attacks.
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hlazloMar 23, 2026
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No. That is not the implication.
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NicCageCompletionistMar 23, 2026
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Nope. He’s not the kind of guy to speak about himself in the third person.
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RellgidkridMar 23, 2026
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Congrats. I couldn’t even get through this shit pie of a movie once.
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TmF1979Mar 23, 2026
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I wanted to like it. *Clerks II* was by far Kevin's best movie, but *III* was disappointingly bad.
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No-Victory2671Mar 23, 2026
I feel like it makes his journey into one of self-loathing and finding redemption in helping his best friend fulfill a dream. And the journey of self-loathing feels more fitting for a Dante story than one of survivor's guilt. I've always felt that with the framing being that of "I have a newfound reason to live" it makes the ending fall flat. But if it's one of "doing one noble thing before I die" then it kinda hits the nail right on the head.
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East_Relationship722Mar 23, 2026
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I felt the same way as you. It’s not spelled out with a big neon sign, but the movie leaves enough ambiguity to make that connection.
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