The Warriors

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Which gangs were not invited? Would a coded gang radio station have worked in 1979? How long did Swan and Mercy stay together? What happened to Ajax? Did the Riffs kill Luther?

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  • Which gangs were too weak to be invited was already covered; whether a DJ communicating in code to gangs would have worked in 1979 or whether the police would have simply listened is asked, with the defense that it is underground and nobody talks.
  • The DJ is the most clever part of the movie for solving how to reach everyone at once, and the shot of Lynn Thinkpen's (as transcribed) mouth against pink-red light dropping the needle is slick.
  • How long Swan and Mercy stayed together: maybe a week, tops, since Coney is far, and he needed to see her after a shower.
  • Ajax is probably dead within three years, going to jail and then shot in an armed robbery; the alternative where he grows up to be the rich guy from Sex and the City is enjoyed.
  • Later, whether the Riffs killed Luther at the end is called an unanswerable question; one host thinks they killed him slowly over many days in that dark cement parking garage compound.