"Mud": Movie Review

 I watched the movie "Mud" yesterday. Mud is a naive person, naive enough to believe in the purity of his girlfriend, and to never doubt that she would ever think of forsaking him. But Juniper forsakes Mud.

Mud's world loses its simple goodness. When Mud works on the boat, enlisting Ellis and Neckbone for help, he executes a plan. He strives to carry out a series of steps, culminating in him fleeing from the police and his home. Nearing the end of that plan, Mud's realization that Juniper does not love Mud enough to run away with him causes him to doubt something he had never doubted before: the difficulty of maintaining a relationship, and potential asymmetry that exists throughout its lifetime.

Mud never gets to fulfill his plan. Like George and Lennie.