To Live and Die in L.A.

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Ruth’s relationships; Malibu home; basketball result; Hart friendship; counterfeiting economics; bodyguard pay; Ruth’s contacts

In the discussion (5)
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  • Questions ask whether Vukovich also inherits the Malibu home and whether Ruth can have other relationships; her situation is characterized as coercive rather than freely chosen. — Sean Fennessey
  • Questions revisit how Chance learned the basketball result and whether a seven-year friendship is long enough to call Hart his best friend. — Bill Simmons
  • The counterfeiting business is questioned for expense, danger and limited returns; alternative criminal uses are hypothetical, while Masters’s artistic satisfaction is offered as the more convincing motive. — Bill Simmons
  • Further questions concern the bodyguard’s compensation and later changes from cash to digital fraud; the latter is contrasted with Masters’s tactile artistic interests. — Bill Simmons
  • The ending discussion asks whom Ruth was informing; Ruth and Grimes are interpreted as the real manipulators, without resolving every contact.