Dark John Wick Theory Explains The Meaning Of Each Movie (& Sets Up Chapter 5)
A dark theory has potentially explained the meaning of every John Wick movie and also set up just what could happen in John Wick: Chapter 5. John Wick: Chapter 3's ending was thrilling, and it was revealed back in 2020 that there would be at least two more movies, with Chapter 4 set to release in 2023. Although there has been no confirmation that these will be the final two movies, the new theory would suggest that they are indeed the last, and would shine a new light on the real meaning of the John Wick movies as a whole.
Despite all the stunning action and the fact that John Wickis a ruthless assassin, the core of the movie revolves around his grief over the death of his wife, Helen, after she passes away from a terminal illness. He struggles to get over her death, and his grief is compounded when the puppy she gifted him just before her death is killed by Iosef Tarasov. John Wick's groundbreakingaction sequences take the focus, so it's sometimes easy to forget that it's also the story of a man mourning the death of the love of his life.
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The theory (via Reddit) states that the fifth movie will most likely be the last, due to the fact that each chapter is themed around the stages of grief. Denial was on display in the first John Wick, his origin story.John was living at home with all of his wife's things untouched, clearly refusing to fully accept the fact that she is gone and not coming back. Despite Wick acting like nothing is wrong, this clearly isn't true, given his overreaction to the death of the puppy. In John Wick: Chapter 2, anger rules him. John Wick goes on a killing spree and lets his anger overwhelm him as he commits the sin of
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