Roger Ebert wrote:
"Jason doesn't much like his father, who abandoned him. Young Zach is impressed: You're not dead anymore! Turner says he must leave again the following day, but won't give his reasons (which turn out, in fact, to be excellent)."
What was Turner's excellent reason for leaving? What am I missing?
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The excellent reason, you heartless cinycs, is going to die in the place where he made love with the only woman he ever loved, the place where he made his son.
"Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression... is our lives!" - Tyler Durden.
You find out later in the film that he has been in prison, but in the prison hospital on dialysis, which means failing kidneys. The boy's mother mentions that the prison doctors thought he would have been dead within a week without treatment. So he was on borrowed time and had to get to that rock.
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