@@rileyjanes6768 The words "he was in a cage" don't encompass what really happened in there. He was blackmailed into being a willing slave, after being beaten for days. He wears the same clothes until they are so disgusting that Todd has to buy him new ones. He probably eats little to no food. The others laugh at his pain and suffering as they actively inflict it. His girlfriend is shot in the head in front of him for punishment. Jesse could have checked himself out of there at any time (suicide) but chose to stay because of Brock. That being said, his dumb ass parents probably saw the cage remark on the news and took it in the lightest context possible. They probably imagined a clean cell with humane treatment, because that's all they've seen or known about cages and imprisonment. After all, what sane person could imagine those horrors, let alone accept the reality of them, based on a news story? I think that's what OP meant in his comment, but I do not presume to speak for him.
yes! That's exactly it. They both released their families from the mental torment of wondering if they could have done something differently to prevent this.
Jesse wasn't a smart guy. This is established. But he was a good kid - a kid with a lot of pain and no way to channel/alleviate that aside from meth, to be sure. But good nonetheless.
Jesse’s parents didn’t deserve any goodbye from him at all. They are like Chuck McGill, condescending and always putting Jesse down. In Chuck’s case, he still had some point that Jimmy is a crook. But in Jesse’s case, his parents just cut him out of the bloodline because they felt that Jesse will make them look bad and they love Jake more.
Definitely. To be honest, I think Nacho's father was the kind of father that Jesse would have needed. He was firm, but still gave his son love and empathy despite disagreeing with his life choices. Jesse's father on the other hand only showed coldness and disinterest ("Can I come to dinner some time?" - " ....Yeah. Some time."). This is literally the only time he shows some parental instincts towards him, and even those come off as pretty self-centered to me ("We've been better.").
@@nont18411 The writers try to point out they still have love or some sort of care for him by making Jake tell Jesse he was their favorite like they were talking about him all the time. Jesse didnt have bad parents he just did wrong things and thats why his parents react like that
All they would really need to do is turn the phone off. Neither the phone nor the SIM card work like a passive RFID tag; they can't be activated remotely just by a radio signal. They need power to function. If they're really paranoid, they could just remove the battery to be absolutely sure the phone is off. In fact, by twisting the phone like this he might be leaving the phone on by mistake. He might have just severed the connection to the display but left part of the phone intact and powered on, allowing it to be tracked.
Sümbig Dumkünt that’s the problem when your the good guys in a bad guys world. If the whole series took place from let’s say the DEA and Hanks pov we would be rooting for Jesse and Walt’s defeat. Jesse in the end redeem himself but if we never saw what he went through he would of been a drug addict bum who deserves to be locked up.
Sümbig Dumkünt His parents are horrible parents who constantly judged him and looked at him as a punk rather than a son. For everything he did he felt horrible about but got stuck in that life he wanted to bail multiple times and by the end of the show was completely broken. I know this is just a show but those parents are judge mental pieces of shit..
Fast 1602 that’s cause jesse was a punk drug addict bum who in the series we saw him trying to manipulate his mom in helping him out. Showing us his mom bailed him out before but when she finally says no she’s the bad one? Jesse is responsible for so many deaths, making drug addicts who were going clean relapse for his own game, manipulating everyone. Look at the scene when they join the drug addict therapy group, badger and skinny Pete was following the 12 step rules. They actually for once were going clean but then Jesse tells them to do some drugs with him they hesitated saying “but the 12 steps idk..” but Jesse being selfish makes them do it instead.
Frankie watever His mom never bailed him out she kicked him out of the house on his lowest moment. Every time his parents talked to him they looked at him as a piece of dirt rather than there son. One of the most satisfying parts of the whole series is when his parents are trying to tell him to leave like he is just an annoyance in there lives. But he pulls out his keys and opens the door. There are parents out there like that all the time and everything they did is physiologically Abusive.
I think the parents could’ve shown more emotions when he said they did their best. The relief of all that pent up frustration from years of failed parenting culminated and they finally got closure.
@@absurdturk oof you're gonna feel really deppresed after U finish breaking bad and rewatch this. Idk if this counts a spoiler but both this and BB has pretty sad and sub sad endings
Imagine from their POV, Jesse calls them out of the blue has a heart to heart with his parents, and tells them to meet at the place where they had picnics, but they won't find him there, this would totally be on top creepy stories or whatever if it was real in a way
I saw it differently, I saw it as him telling them to go to a place where he knew they have good memories of, and after telling them he will be there and getting closure from the call, they think he will be there and once he isnt they will sit there, and reminense on the times they had picnics there.
@@krantzer42069 no. They go and find no one, only to come back home and see that he opened their safe, took the guns and escaped to never been seen or heard of ever again
I always wondered what the people of the Breaking Bad universe would have thought about Jesse’s disappearance? Like, I bet there would be 100’s of UA-cam video theories on what happened to one of America’s most wanted. Because someone with such a high profile, to all of a sudden just disappears like that, would be talked about forever. The same with Saul Goodman (but his arc isn’t over yet). To the public, Jesse just did some DB Cooper level of vanishing
In 2020, this would be the case. But Breaking Bad takes place in 2008-2010, and while there would be lots of theories in forums and stuff, UA-cam had not yet completely taken off, it was still getting there. This sort of thing would appear on UA-cam in post-2011 UA-cam.
@@UdyKumra regardless, it would still take the world by storm and media/UA-cam would be rife with vids on it. If there are endless videos on DB Cooper (before the internet was even a thing) then I’m sure there would be tonnes on Jesse
I don't know about that...as far as the public would've known, Jesse was working as an informant with Hank and Gomez until they caught Heisenberg. A few hours later, all three of them had disappeared, with Heisenberg claiming to have murdered Hank before disappearing himself. People would've assumed that Jesse had been killed alongside Hank and Gomez (which was almost the case).
100% i bet thered be documentaries on netflix about jesse and walt similar to other true crime documentaries like making a murderer or the ted bundy files
It was smart to not turn himself in. One, Jesse was the last man on earth that could tell the full story of what happened for two years. Not a good look when you don’t have two top DEA agents to vouch for you in a trial. If Hank and Gomez had lived to tell the tale Jesse would’ve been let off for so much. Jesse knew for sure that the book was getting thrown at him if he turned himself in.
@C M marie is crazy remember? She told hank to lie and say jesse assaulted him with a pipe and that's why hank beat him unconscious. Marie probably would believe jesse is responsible for hanks death if that was the belief the prosecutors held. Jesse being the only survivor at the compound means that he is suspect as the perpetrator of the attack
1:09 broke my heart. I went on picnics with my brother before lost him to drugs. Before he couldn't even recognize me anymore. Before he went insane from all that disgusting mess. And hearing Jesse say that broke my heart. That they didn't do anything wrong. I've always felt I failed my brother when I know there was nothing I could've done to stop him from deliberately choosing a bad path. I miss him every day. I know he's still in there somewhere. I keep praying one day he'll be ok...
@@Datan1234 Anger will burn you up until there's nothing left. It won't solve anything. Submission to Allah (God) and our destinies (Qadr) was what helped me most. Regardless of your beliefs, I will tell you that things happen for a reason, and whatever happens has already transpired or will transpire regardless of what you wish. We have the agency to change things for the better or for the worst. My view - it's better to make sure there are less of people like my brother out there by helping them before they become like him, and to always hope, pray, and try for a better future. Moping and steaming does nothing but hurt yourself. Stopping the things that hurt others for the betterment of others - that's what a strong man/woman does. And I leave whatever happens to God, but I'll at least be able to say I tried.
I enjoy the subtle relief on Mr. Pinkman's face when Jesse takes responsibility 1:41, It feels like all of the closure their relationship needed in Breaking Bad.
this scene is art and all, but I can't help but laugh at the end cause it looks like he couldn't break the phone all the way so once the phone was off-screen they had to add that cracking sound effect in post-production
@Sümbig Dumkünt Bullshit, you're telling me they didn't notice the guns missing, and those last words would've given them a hint that it was going to be the last time they ever talk to their son. It's closure in my book, and honestly it's one of the best parts of this movie.
This scene really illustrates that Jesse did this to himself, this isn’t a case of bad parenting or neglect that put Jesse on a bad path this is a rare show that gave us a criminal protagonist who was raised well with opportunities but just made all the wrong choices in life. Edit: the fact that after a year I’m still getting comments blaming Jesse’s parents for his choices is crazy
Sorry for the two way too long messages, I'm really too invested in the show obviously... About your message, I just want to precise I'm not blaming his parents neither, as Jesse said they did their best. But I'd might be more nuanced over the trouble past they carry with Jesse, maybe their parenting mismatched Jesse's potential znd vice versa. Despite coming from a wealthy family, and benefiting the material support (having inherited the aunt's houseand) I feel like he still lacked what mattered the most as the troubled teenager he was during high school (and what he seemed to seek during the whole show, and probably for his earlier adolescence) : guidance, and maybe some demonstration of concern and validation, or love. Of course the parents were in very hard position, handling a son with addiction. But it's made obvious despite Jesse's relative young age that the relationship was being broken since a pretty long time: his little brother barely knows him, Walt had his aunt's address registered in high school files (and we know Jesse at the time had only weed issues, and graduated high school, he was more of a hard teenager than a lost cause), he seemed to live with the aunt early on until she passes away from cancer (circumstances which probably didn't help), leaving alone in the aunt's house (despite obvious lack of autonomy and immaturity, added to mourning his surrogate parent/aunt). Escalating the drug issue to meth use likely happent away from the parents sight (with probably some exhausting back and forth in the relationship with the parents, as the mother recalls, but no stability given, early on in the path). Jesse himself told it at one point that he was felt abandoned when dealing with his aunt's agony ("she was here dying and where were you?") and you can feel it's an issue because she nipticks on Jesse's involvement (but we saw from many scenes how deeply involved he was in his aunt's cancer issues, at least emotionally) and she slaps him rather than answering or just aknowledging his feelings. Maybe the family being so "perfect" didn't serve Jesse so much as the parents felt out of place to handle Jesse's issues (compared to Jane's dad or Andrea's mum, who took problems into their hands, and really support their young adult child). I think Jesse's parents may have been more frustrated at the situation, feeling overwhelmed as soon as weed was involved or feeling that Jesse would never be that medal seeker they hoped for (possibly why Jesse rebelled and starts pots in the first place). The mother yelling at him "why are you like this" (rather than "why do you behave like this"), I think, that tells all the frustration of their missed expectations (Jesse when he met Jane said that he disappointed his parents, and adds "again"), they ended erasing him from their life completely from the family (as shown on the car stickers representing only Jake and the parents).
@@carmody3155 but he had a good environment, you can be given a great environment and still end up on a bad path, the choices we make in life effect who we become and he made bad choices
@Starscream91 lying about what? He manned the fuck. He made a decision to be apart of that "LIFE" gotta take everything that comes with it, be man and stick with it own it. His parents tried their best to give him a better life and did. As did mine, but I am the way that I am cuz I chose to be
The, "How's Jake, can I say hi to him?" Hurts me so much. He'll never see, hear, or talk to his brother ever again. That hurts (to me at least) more than never being able to talk to any other family members (partners and children excluded). I've got three younger brothers and the thought of never seeing them again is horrible.
Anyone but me want to see a scene in Better call Saul where Flynn runs into Jessie at a bar in Alaska and starts talking about fathers and father figures? Clearly talking about Walt and Jessie's parents without ever realizing just how connected they were?
@@stanleytweedle1897 Na bro if you think about it put yourself in his parents shoes. They gave jesse MANY chances to get clean but he wouldnt change. You wouldn’t want your child to be like jesse lol from our perspective he’s a good guy but in real life he would be a failure of a son
@@jun-ki Breaking bad fans often say "This is the moment Walter White became Heinsenberg", after some time it became a meme and now basicaly everyone is saying random things like this, to make fun od that overused sentence.
Imagine how difficult would be to destroy a modern cellphone if the story took place in 2019 and not in 2010, I mean if you do it they would literally explode.
1:53 It's a small touch, but I appreciate how the parents don't hear the hang up tone and immediately say, "Jesse? Jesse?" Absolutely no one does that in real life, and it always looks dumb af when people do that in movies.
This whole movie to me is about Jesse finally becoming a man. Him making peace with his parents by taking full responsibility is really satisfying, especially given how his childlike impulses is what caused so much chaos for him during the course of the show.
hes a good person not meant to be apart of this cruel, unforgiving gang and drug business. he realized that this line of work wasnt for him, but who kept bringing him back? who manipilated, and coerced him at every turn? have some sympathy for jesse, and stop pretending like walter doesnt have any role in any of this
Right. His parents did fuck him up. The lie he told was that they were great. The truth that he told was that he still needs to take responsibility for his life as an adult. Powerful.
This would hurt so bad from Jesse’s perspective. To have to lie to your parents one last time and on top of that knowing damn well whether you live or die this will be the last time you ever hear or see from them again. It’s tough, even if your parents betrayed you as much Jesse’s did this would be a really shitty situation to live through.
Jesse's parents didnt betray him. They tried very hard. If you've dealt with an addict in your family you know their struggle very well. What you don't see are the hundreds of attempts to get him on the straight and narrow but if you give him the slightest account of leadway then theyll slip back into old habits. When you have other kids it becomes a situation where you have to choose to either leave one to his own devices or lose both. Probably the most painful thing a parent can do but it looks cold to those who don't understand. You just cant. With those types if you give them food and a warm bed then youll come home and find everything stolen to feed the habit Jesse may be sympathetic to us but he was a junkie who turned into a major criminal that murdered people in cold blood. His behavior caused one of his gfs to OD and another to get executed by a drug gang. Jesse IS at fault for that. Jane was clean before him and he got her back on the stuff while trying to deal at narcotics anonymous. Walt didn't kill her, jesse did. He has a conscience but he did some horrible shit. From every other normal persons perspective Jesse is a monster
@@TheBacknblack92 EXACTLY. I see so many people here with victim mentality and it's so pathetic seriously. Jesse made his own choices and that's his responsibility, end of fucking story lol.
@@TheBacknblack92 “Walt didn’t kill her” Eh, Walt did kill her though by inadvertently causing her body to roll onto her back in a much more vulnerable position. If Walt had never broken into Jesse’s home, Jane would have vomited onto Jesse’s neck and live long enough for her dad to drag her (and Jesse) off to inpatient rehab the very next morning. Walt refusing to correct his mistake by saving Jane is like accidentally setting a house on fire and refusing to correct your mistake by saving/alerting the person or calling the fire department. Also, considering how Vince’s plan was to have Walt directly inject Jane with a lethal dose of heroin, that shows that Vince wanted to have Walt be the one responsible for Jane’s death. He only toned it down because the writers and Bryan objected, so Vince changed it to Walt deliberately turning Jane onto her back in the hope that she would choke. They still objected to that, so finally, Vince had it where Walt accidentally turns Jane onto her back. “Jesse is a monster” Jesse has too much of a conscience to be a monster. He just needed to have one solid good mentor, which is why Walt was able to repeatedly manipulate Jesse for so long. I agree with the rest of your comment though.
Taking accountability is something that not many characters do in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but Jesse is one of the rare cases. Him and Mike are my favorites for that reason.
His dad didn’t know that disappearing was an option. The dilemma in real life is usually turn yourself in, get caught and get worse treatment, or possibly be killed by other criminals. People like to say BB is realistic but people like Saul and Ed don’t really exist and usually turning yourself in is the best option.
I hate how Jesse Pinkman is the most relatable character I’ve ever seen on screen. Being a young man and knowing you had so much more potential to be better just fucking hurts.
“knowing you had so much more potential to be better” Indeed, I think that theme is best illustrated by Jesse’s lovingly crafted wooden box. At first, he says to his meth support group that he gave that box to his mom before he confesses that he actually sold it for an ounce of weed. This Esau-like trade of exchanging something valuable for something not so meaningful is repeated over and over throughout the series. Jesse trades his relationship with his parents for a drug addicted lifestyle. He trades a life with Jane in New Zealand for “one last high” with heroin. As someone naturally talented in organic chemistry, Jesse also trades his potential for working in the pharmaceutical industry for working in a more criminal industry. Even in El Camino, when Jesse has Todd’s gun while they’re out in the Painted Desert, Jesse trades his shot at freedom for some cheap pizza although at this point, you can’t blame him since his body is probably so starved for food.
All that time he was imprisoned made Jesse reflect on his life and all the bad choices he made that got him there. He was dead on the inside until Walt broke him out. Jesse was reborn with a new will to live. That took a lot of character to admit to his parents that he did wrong by himself, not them to him. Although I still think they were a bunch of dicks for kicking him out of their Aunt's house and putting it up for sale.
Imagine that you let your son live rent-free in a house that legally belongs to you. Then you discover a meth lab in the basement. If the cops raid the house, you're criminally liable. You basically have three options: 1) Report your son to the cops. 2) Do nothing, pray that your son never gets caught, while knowing that if he does, you and your wife are going to jail too. 3) Evict your son and sell the house without disclosing the meth lab (though, as they discover, that could also lead to criminal charges). If my son forced me to choose one of those options, I'd probably be a little ticked-off at him too. I might even consider taking his sticker off the back of my car.
@@cherkovision very good points, its unfortunate that they tried to scam someone out of a cool 375k for that house though, You kinda forfeit your right to the moral highground when youre willing to do several felonies to sell off your property, *just* to make your druggy son homeless. Thats incredibly narcasistic, especially when its clear that they think its best for him to become worse off and force him to depend on people like walt, and later jane, just to be able to get by. Whats more likely to happen when you force a drug addict into even more dire straights? It sure isnt becoming clean, like jesse has tried to do time and again so he could get some emotional support, but they cast him out again, and not just from their home, but his home where he spent the last ten or so years looking after his aunt, who wanted him to have the house before she died, most likely because she knew how neglectful his family is. based solely off the fact they never tried to even take care of her when she needed it most, because they do it to jesse without so much as a second thought after they find the lab.. If i ever seen my cousins or brothers treat their kid like the way jesses parents treated him, id take them in too, they didnt even try to help him with science class from what walt says. Because i know for a fact jesse wouldnt be where he is if he had any actual support within his family, which he doesnt
@@cherkovision If someone is using drugs, the parents are pretty much a part of the reason (even more when both their sons use ). They raised him bad his entire life, his aunt was the one who he lived with and also the one who took care of him. He helped his aunt during cancer and that is why this was his house, his aunt gave it to him but not on paper. His parents literally did not care for him, even at school his aunt was the one who registered him and took care of thing. His parents literally did not give a shit about jesse, they raised him a fucked up way and tooking the house was like: "we did not help you with anything a parent should do almost you entire life but we are taking this house who your recently deceased aunt-mother gave you, sell to get some money while you live on the streets and we pretend we were good parents".
@@cherkovision Bad parents cut their sons out of their lives because they dont see how responsible they are for raising a bad son. You talk about how you would be embarassed and disapointed in your son if he uses drugs but you does not mention being sad and disapointed for the fact that him using drugs would means that you raised him wrong.
@@OnePieceSS23 You're reading a LOT of stuff that I didn't say. I just listed the options that you have when you find a meth lab in your son's basement. I never said anything about embarrassment or disappointment. I think you're projecting some of your own issues here.
I was so glad Jesse's parents came back for this film. It was public news what happened with Walter and Jesse and the Nazi shootout and how Jesse was enslaved so imagine how horrible they must've felt for him. I realize he just needed his dad's guns but this was a great way for him to make amends with them before settling his last piece of business.
As opposed to what many seem to think, I don’t think this is Jesse exonerating his parents from any wrong doings they had committed. It’s just him trying to close that chapter in his life. Him saying “you did your best” is acceptance of the way things are and were in his childhood, but it doesn’t exclude that their best might still have been pretty shit. This and him saying “this is on me” is just him giving them and himself closure with the situation, so that they don’t have to feel guilty anymore and he can start living his life for himself and not make every decision in the shadow of his childhood and parents. Like he is taking back control of his life by taking responsibility, while achieving some sense of reconciliation with his parents for the last time. So now he can leave
I see "you did your best" as a blatant manipulative lie to his evil bitch mother. She wants to watch him fry in the electric chair and take full responsibility for everything she did to him. "This is on me" is the truth. As awful and damaging as some parents can be you do need to take control and responsibility of your life. Even if that is way harder for you than for most people. It's not an excuse. I have a similar relationship to my father.
Agreed. I agree that they probably did their best, but from what I saw I don't think that was very good. And I don't agree that his fate is entirely on him, but I can get behind his reasons for saying it. I'm just glad as hell that he didn't say "I'm sorry". I think I would have shut off the movie right there if he had.
@@NoriMori1992 I’ve you’ve ever dealt with a family member that is hooked on drugs and wants to run the streets. You realize they did what we all would have done after awhile. Jesse choose to do those things, he dad a two parent household who would go out of their way to make sure he succeed. Then he wanted to goof off and have fun and break bad with the flunkies. We only see them after they cut ties but not when they had to deal with the stealing,lies,broken promises and rock bottoms. They also had another son they had to think of and keep from following him down his path. Could they have done better? Yes but how? How does a middle class family supposed to know how to handle a addict unruly child bent on destroying his life?
@@justliving920 That's pretty disgusting, willing to abandon your kid, because they become an addict? Good god, never become a parent, there's already enough jackasses around and we don't need you in the mix.
This is the most mature thing jesse has done to finally admit that everything he’s done was his doing and not anyone else’s is amazing character development
I didn't like how his little brother was missing either but so many years passed since he was seen in Season 1 that they would need to recast him. Less than 2 years happen time wise but actors are 10 years older.
@@chamoo232 you’d think that with how successful the show was, the original actor would’ve been more than eager to appear in the movie. But he probably wasn’t written into the story at all so “he’s away on a band camp”
@@benmorgan8890 If they got the same actor it wouldn't work. He appeared in BB in 2008 when he was 13. He was 24 when El Camino came out. Jesse is supposed to be 25 in El Camino. We can get over adult actors looking older in Better Call Saul which is supposed to be a prequel but you can't explain a 13 year old looking 24 in less than 2 years of story.
@@chamoo232 but still, I thought it would’ve been cool if like once his parents and the cops left, and Jesse tried to get in the safe and couldn’t. Then Jake would’ve been there to help him out and it would’ve been a nice little arc to when Jesse covered up for him smoking weed.
In the first episode of the series Jesse yells at Walt for failing him, blaming Walt for not passing chemistry. In el Camino he takes full responsibility
Jesse is an amazing character. When he gets back from rehab and tells Walt that he knows who he is, that he's, "The bad guy," it's heartbreaking. He has a lot of altruistic, protective, almost childish qualities to him despite being a murderous meth manufacturer. When he asks his parents if they could come get him, it's a lot. There are these moments where you can kind of see that genuine innocence. The whole call is a goodbye, but that's where his mind went. Asking his parents to pick him up after he got in trouble and got hurt.
Sad that his parents only cared about him getting caught. Dude was tortured for almost a year and they only care about how it makes them look. Jesse deserved better parents.
@@liavhanegbi2729 really?? Man, i swear it legit felt like years watching jesse turn from the goofy addict he was into a desheveled shell of his former self. Mans had it too rough 😓
@@diesemautokerl2181 They did though. Everyone found out. It was on the news. And there's so much to be left to imagination when it comes to wicked, torturous Nazi gangs,
It’s really sweet if you kinda think about it , even though Jesse is not perfect and has made lot’s of mistake’s , it’s nice to know that his parent’s still love him , cause for example if we look at this from Walt’s storyline , Walt had it worse cause his family hated him in the end and he honestly deserved it cause he turned into such selfish piece if shit in the end , but Jesse was diffreint , Jesse had a good heart and even his parent’s knew that , and hearing their voce’s Jesse got comformation that they still loved him and that probably gave him satifaction and was okay with leaving to Alaska , and his parent’s may never see him again but they probably are happytoo that their son is alive and free. Walt’s family hated him in the end , while Jesse was still loved by his family , it speak’s a lot about wich one of the two had a bigger heart.
The thing is, Walt literally made a mockery out of the DEA and the FBI, With him dead they would launch the wrath of god upon Jesse and everyone close to Walt just to save face. I'm talking scorched earth type shit. If i was his father i'd tell him to run and never come back, don't even call. There's nothing here for him anymore and he'll just end up dragging everyone and everything around him down with him into the sinkhole.
As much as Jesse clearly fucked up from his own poor life choices, I do feel like if he had more caring parents, he might not have turned to drugs. It's really quite telling that even though it was on the news that Jesse had been tortured and kept in a cage for months, his parents didn't even ask him if he was alright, all they were interested in was him turning himself in.
Whoever says that his parents never loved him are clueless. Jesse father even started to cry when he said that Jesse had to leave in breaking bad. Even his mother got angry at his father, but they knew that Jesse could potentially influence they’re younger son and didn’t want that. They didn’t knew how to make Jesse stop using drugs because he didn’t. In this movie they wanted Jesse to get caught not because they don’t care about him but because they wanted him surrender to prevent worst if the police catch him or even bigger criminals who might kill him
Yes indeed. I believe they were good loving parents to Jesse but sort of washed their hands of him after giving him chance after chance where he kept breaking their hearts over and over with his lying and stealing when he became an addict. They still loved him but stopped trusting him at a certain point in his life.
yeah but buying his aunt's house was a big low blow to them. He cared about his aunt but his parents ignored her and they still tried to sell her house and make money off it
No, they were shit parents who gave up on him because it was "hard." Him getting thrown out because of his brothers joint is my reason why. It speaks to the oppressive environment the Pinkman parents created, that not only their oldest, but their youngest as well found solace in narcotics to escape from the familial pressures. Not to mention the scene where Jesse buys the house from them. They have the stick figure family decal on their car. With only one son. tl;dr Pinkman's parents are trash.
@@river7874 yeah, a lot of people tend to forget that Jake started smoking pot without any influence from Jesse and around the same age as him. Most likely for similar reasons.
@Aaron Vega i mean the parents might not of even known, the fbi would 100% tap the lines of one of the most wanted mans parents. They dont need permission
He knew the cops would follow bc they were watching the house. That’s why he got them to leave. So that he could go in and get whatever it was he wanted. It’s been so long since I watched.
While I never liked how they treated Jesse, they were never in the wrong imo. Maybe they screwed up somewhere while raising him and it lead to him becoming a criminal, but he knows they did their best. I'm the middle child and I understand the first born has a rockier upbringing with first time parents. They make more mistakes, maybe too coddling etc but I believe they tried.
Jesse actually managed to do the one thing Mike told him he could NOT do (make things right), at least to some extent. He was able to give closure to his parents as well as Brock at least somewhat. I was hoping the BCS finale would touch on the fate of Drew Sharpe (since the feds never got to see Jesse's confession DVD) but I guess not all wrongs can be made right.
This scene really hit hard. Tears me up watching it. Jesse is a good person and I don't think he ever could've forseen what would've happened to him and the people around him just by getting involved with walter.
I don't know if it would be a mercy, for the parents, or not. I don't guess it really matters though, because they will spend every day of their lives imagining all kinds of endings for their child. Maybe it did help Jesse heal.
very telling of Jesse's character to forgive his parents and tell them they did their best. they couldve been a lot more supportive, kind, and understanding. Jesse was obviously far from perfect, but they had a major hand in it.
I just want to know where Jesse got his heart from, because it wasn't from that pair! Proof: Jesse took care of his aunt when she had cancer. (How he got the house) the dying aunt was a sister of either the mother or the father - where were they? Why did the "screw up" have to step up to the plate? Caso cerrado!
It’s sad hearing this and then thinking about it for a second. This time listening it just hurt a lot. Because his parents probably DID think that they did their best. That they tried. That they gave him second chances and third chances, and they still think he brought drugs back in their house (his little brother’s joint)… but then he tells them this, and they have to realize that he’s actually trying to be a good son. Trying to let them know it isn’t their fault what happened. Which has the opposite effect, because if he’s actually a kind enough person to say that to them, then he shouldn’t be in this situation. He should’ve had better parents who could’ve helped him before it got this far. I think it probably hurt them more to hear that. I mean, maybe some closure in hearing that he’s alive and okay, and that they raised a better person than they thought, but sad and angry at themselves much more that somehow they let that good person fall into such horrible times.
I think this phone call let Jesse move on. I didn’t take it literally that Jesse really believed that his parents played no role in his decisions. They obviously did. Jesse made mistakes too of course, but I think he was more sincere in his attempts to change than his parents were. His parents only were going to accept him if he made them look good, it’s a very conditional fake love. I think Jesse tried to meet them somewhere in the middle, a compromise in the path he took in life. But they weren’t willing to compromise on what they expected from their children. They didn’t want him for who he was (or his brother Jake) they wanted him as a trophy or object to display that would make them look good. But going back to the phone call, he told his parents what they wanted to hear. He also reminded himself that if he truly wants to move on and transform into a new person in Alaska; he needs to take full responsibility for his actions moving forward.
Imagine being Jesse’s parents- your son acts weird for a while, then out of fucking nowhere you find out he ran a massive drug empire with his old high schoolteacher you thought was a normal wholesome teacher
Jesses parents did bad things to him, but we only saw how things were by the time he was almost an adult, who knows what all his parents went through with him before BB. My point is I could always tell his parents still loved and cared for him so much..
@@ClintonKE Except Jimmy started to actually change for the better like he had promised to Chuck. He still had a few “Slippin’ Jimmy” moments here and there but he still was pretty straight and narrow in comparison to his Slipping Jimmy days. That was until he found out his efforts to make Chuck proud were for nothing because Chuck was doing everything he could to keep Jimmy down from having true legitimate success in the world of lawyers because Chuck couldn’t handle the idea of Jimmy being more successful than him. Chuck failed to give Jimmy the support he needed to become a successful lawyer and in turn, Jimmy regressed back to his old ways and became the slimy Saul Goodman. Jimmy may be a shitty person, but Chuck is far from blameless in regards to Jimmy turning into Saul Goodman.
This movie wasn’t anything profound in any way. Really just felt like any other episode of BB. But personally, I think it was perfect. A well-needed closure for a brilliant story that tied up a lot of great loose ends ❤️
Presumably this is the last time jesse speaks to his parents, Jesse pretty much flees the country the next day so his parents will forever wonder why jesse wasn’t at the place he told them to pick him up and if he’s even alive.
this is a great scene where he takes responiblity for his actions. Like walter said season 4 I have made a seires of choices the show is about conqueneces.
Jesse's call to his parents was a final farewell to them. Since Jesse made poor choices and chose the life of an outlaw, he leaves behind strained relationships and broken chances.
This scene really hits home, my parents were always there for me and they always looked after me but I can’t help feeling like I could of been better I started to swerve so far to the left that I lost myself along the way I just want them to know it wasn’t their fault I turned out how I am
In Breaking Bad universe no one knows how to properly hang up, so they just break phones after each conversation
You know that they're doing it to prevent others to track the phone right?
@@upvotecomment2110 r/woooosh
They also never say bye in Breaking bad universe it seems
@@lxz9929 r/ihavereddit
"Dammit! The hangup button doesn't work! Wonder if I just snap it"
Jesse literally became an actual slave and his parents have no idea.
I don’t think that’s true him being trapped in a cage was on the news
@@rileyjanes6768 The words "he was in a cage" don't encompass what really happened in there.
He was blackmailed into being a willing slave, after being beaten for days.
He wears the same clothes until they are so disgusting that Todd has to buy him new ones.
He probably eats little to no food.
The others laugh at his pain and suffering as they actively inflict it.
His girlfriend is shot in the head in front of him for punishment.
Jesse could have checked himself out of there at any time (suicide) but chose to stay because of Brock.
That being said, his dumb ass parents probably saw the cage remark on the news and took it in the lightest context possible. They probably imagined a clean cell with humane treatment, because that's all they've seen or known about cages and imprisonment.
After all, what sane person could imagine those horrors, let alone accept the reality of them, based on a news story?
I think that's what OP meant in his comment, but I do not presume to speak for him.
Yeah his parents were shitty af , probably the characters I hated the most.
@@We_Are_Borg_478 he wasn’t beaten for days
@@zoxyy.1x Yes he was. It's called interrogation.
This is Jesse’s “I did it for Me” scene
yes! That's exactly it. They both released their families from the mental torment of wondering if they could have done something differently to prevent this.
Exactly in fact the entire movie was basically Jesse's felina
This is where Jesse's mom became Heisenberg
@@flufkyn8150 you can literally pinpoint the exact moment...absolutely chilling. god bless vince gilligan.
@@stanpines9011 Am i missing something? Could you explain to the less brighter one here
Jesse really is a good guy, gave his parents closure and made sure they weren’t connected to the crime even by chance.
If Jessie was a good guy he would not have gotten in the trouble he did. He certainly was not the sharpest tack.
Jesse wasn't a smart guy. This is established. But he was a good kid - a kid with a lot of pain and no way to channel/alleviate that aside from meth, to be sure. But good nonetheless.
He’s no saint. He contributed to a business that has killed thousands.
@@jonathanjuwainat5535 the only industry without blood on its hands is the postal service, man.
@@jonathanjuwainat5535 no one forces drugs on junkies
"no one is coming to hurt you". I don't know, dawg. A life sentence hurts pretty bad.
Especially if you know a guy named "Michael ehrmantraut"
@@sw1rly801 and being a associate of a drug kingpin
"Life sentences are better then nothing!"
-someone whos clearly never dropped the soap.
@@notjimpickens7928 lmao
It ain’t gonna be over easy
Jesse's goodbye to his parents was sad, but Nacho's final goodbye to his father was utterly tragic.
Nachos was a lot sadder. I didn’t even find jesses goodbye tragic considering how shit his parents were
Jesse’s parents didn’t deserve any goodbye from him at all. They are like Chuck McGill, condescending and always putting Jesse down. In Chuck’s case, he still had some point that Jimmy is a crook. But in Jesse’s case, his parents just cut him out of the bloodline because they felt that Jesse will make them look bad and they love Jake more.
Definitely. To be honest, I think Nacho's father was the kind of father that Jesse would have needed. He was firm, but still gave his son love and empathy despite disagreeing with his life choices. Jesse's father on the other hand only showed coldness and disinterest ("Can I come to dinner some time?" - " ....Yeah. Some time."). This is literally the only time he shows some parental instincts towards him, and even those come off as pretty self-centered to me ("We've been better.").
@@nont18411 The writers try to point out they still have love or some sort of care for him by making Jake tell Jesse he was their favorite like they were talking about him all the time. Jesse didnt have bad parents he just did wrong things and thats why his parents react like that
Hey man thanks for the spoiler Lmao
I love that a lot of the characters break the phone after any call. I think this is the first time Jesse did it.
It was a burner phone.
Its so it cant be traced
Yes, I know what it is for. Similar thing that a lot of characters do is that they check their car for bugs.
All they would really need to do is turn the phone off. Neither the phone nor the SIM card work like a passive RFID tag; they can't be activated remotely just by a radio signal. They need power to function. If they're really paranoid, they could just remove the battery to be absolutely sure the phone is off.
In fact, by twisting the phone like this he might be leaving the phone on by mistake. He might have just severed the connection to the display but left part of the phone intact and powered on, allowing it to be tracked.
@@CrazyHorseInvincible that's true but he did remove the battery
Last time he will ever talk to his parents.
Jedi2,000,000,000 lmao that’s a good thing his parents deserve to burn in hell😂...
Sümbig Dumkünt that’s the problem when your the good guys in a bad guys world. If the whole series took place from let’s say the DEA and Hanks pov we would be rooting for Jesse and Walt’s defeat. Jesse in the end redeem himself but if we never saw what he went through he would of been a drug addict bum who deserves to be locked up.
Sümbig Dumkünt His parents are horrible parents who constantly judged him and looked at him as a punk rather than a son. For everything he did he felt horrible about but got stuck in that life he wanted to bail multiple times and by the end of the show was completely broken. I know this is just a show but those parents are judge mental pieces of shit..
Fast 1602 that’s cause jesse was a punk drug addict bum who in the series we saw him trying to manipulate his mom in helping him out. Showing us his mom bailed him out before but when she finally says no she’s the bad one? Jesse is responsible for so many deaths, making drug addicts who were going clean relapse for his own game, manipulating everyone. Look at the scene when they join the drug addict therapy group, badger and skinny Pete was following the 12 step rules. They actually for once were going clean but then Jesse tells them to do some drugs with him they hesitated saying “but the 12 steps idk..” but Jesse being selfish makes them do it instead.
Frankie watever His mom never bailed him out she kicked him out of the house on his lowest moment. Every time his parents talked to him they looked at him as a piece of dirt rather than there son. One of the most satisfying parts of the whole series is when his parents are trying to tell him to leave like he is just an annoyance in there lives. But he pulls out his keys and opens the door. There are parents out there like that all the time and everything they did is physiologically Abusive.
I nearly cried in this scene.
So well acted by everyone.
Alex :/ shut up 9 year old
@@Alex-sq4rb Keyboard Kunt
@@heeeck8060
lol check who he follows. The kid is 12 at the oldest.
I think the parents could’ve shown more emotions when he said they did their best. The relief of all that pent up frustration from years of failed parenting culminated and they finally got closure.
@@absurdturk oof you're gonna feel really deppresed after U finish breaking bad and rewatch this. Idk if this counts a spoiler but both this and BB has pretty sad and sub sad endings
Imagine from their POV, Jesse calls them out of the blue has a heart to heart with his parents, and tells them to meet at the place where they had picnics, but they won't find him there, this would totally be on top creepy stories or whatever if it was real in a way
One does think how often those "creepy stories" had truths like this.
I saw it differently, I saw it as him telling them to go to a place where he knew they have good memories of, and after telling them he will be there and getting closure from the call, they think he will be there and once he isnt they will sit there, and reminense on the times they had picnics there.
diamond dogs the last thing you’d want in your Los Pollos Hermanos burger is someone’s foot fungus, but as it turns out that might be what you get.
@@krantzer42069 no. They go and find no one, only to come back home and see that he opened their safe, took the guns and escaped to never been seen or heard of ever again
They and the DEA agents who followed them can have a nostalgic picnic under the nightsky in honour of jesse
Between Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and El Camino, how many cell phones met a violent end?
saudade2100 😂, that’s exactly what I was thinking
That's the real tragedy
[Br]eaking [Ph]ones
Have you even seen the wire
Metaknightkirby2 *intro music starts*
I always wondered what the people of the Breaking Bad universe would have thought about Jesse’s disappearance? Like, I bet there would be 100’s of UA-cam video theories on what happened to one of America’s most wanted. Because someone with such a high profile, to all of a sudden just disappears like that, would be talked about forever. The same with Saul Goodman (but his arc isn’t over yet). To the public, Jesse just did some DB Cooper level of vanishing
In 2020, this would be the case. But Breaking Bad takes place in 2008-2010, and while there would be lots of theories in forums and stuff, UA-cam had not yet completely taken off, it was still getting there. This sort of thing would appear on UA-cam in post-2011 UA-cam.
@@UdyKumra regardless, it would still take the world by storm and media/UA-cam would be rife with vids on it. If there are endless videos on DB Cooper (before the internet was even a thing) then I’m sure there would be tonnes on Jesse
I don't know about that...as far as the public would've known, Jesse was working as an informant with Hank and Gomez until they caught Heisenberg. A few hours later, all three of them had disappeared, with Heisenberg claiming to have murdered Hank before disappearing himself. People would've assumed that Jesse had been killed alongside Hank and Gomez (which was almost the case).
100% i bet thered be documentaries on netflix about jesse and walt similar to other true crime documentaries like making a murderer or the ted bundy files
Lmao I'm just imaging if Saul and Jesse were caught because of a True Crime podcast.
It was smart to not turn himself in. One, Jesse was the last man on earth that could tell the full story of what happened for two years. Not a good look when you don’t have two top DEA agents to vouch for you in a trial. If Hank and Gomez had lived to tell the tale Jesse would’ve been let off for so much. Jesse knew for sure that the book was getting thrown at him if he turned himself in.
Technically Saul could vouch but for obvious reasons that would and could never happen
Hanks wife could vouch but she probably blamed jesse for hanks death.
@C M marie is crazy remember? She told hank to lie and say jesse assaulted him with a pipe and that's why hank beat him unconscious. Marie probably would believe jesse is responsible for hanks death if that was the belief the prosecutors held. Jesse being the only survivor at the compound means that he is suspect as the perpetrator of the attack
@@JESUSLIVESAMEN I think she blames mostly Walter for Hank's death, actually.
@@truecaliber1995 Although Hank got himself killed.
I didn't like it. I was not good at it. And I... I was dead.
Thanks for the laughter man!😂
Jesse cooked a 96 percent pure batch though
This made Me shed a tear 💔
Well that hurt.
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1:09 broke my heart.
I went on picnics with my brother before lost him to drugs. Before he couldn't even recognize me anymore. Before he went insane from all that disgusting mess. And hearing Jesse say that broke my heart. That they didn't do anything wrong. I've always felt I failed my brother when I know there was nothing I could've done to stop him from deliberately choosing a bad path. I miss him every day. I know he's still in there somewhere. I keep praying one day he'll be ok...
huh healthier than a lot of us then,
think most went my route with anger to paint over the bitterness.
@@Datan1234 Anger will burn you up until there's nothing left. It won't solve anything. Submission to Allah (God) and our destinies (Qadr) was what helped me most. Regardless of your beliefs, I will tell you that things happen for a reason, and whatever happens has already transpired or will transpire regardless of what you wish. We have the agency to change things for the better or for the worst. My view - it's better to make sure there are less of people like my brother out there by helping them before they become like him, and to always hope, pray, and try for a better future. Moping and steaming does nothing but hurt yourself. Stopping the things that hurt others for the betterment of others - that's what a strong man/woman does. And I leave whatever happens to God, but I'll at least be able to say I tried.
@@gharib6458 W
@@gharib6458 you telling the man to change one drug for another. Religion is a greatest drug of all, especially older ones.
@RaikoTechnologies Atheism is the ultimate cope and falsehood. To claim something happens without cause is against science.
I enjoy the subtle relief on Mr. Pinkman's face when Jesse takes responsibility 1:41, It feels like all of the closure their relationship needed in Breaking Bad.
hello now
I think it’s less relief and more him trying not to cry with all the emotions running around
this scene is art and all, but I can't help but laugh at the end cause it looks like he couldn't break the phone all the way so once the phone was off-screen they had to add that cracking sound effect in post-production
Nigga have you ever tried breaking a phone that shit is stringy as fuck
Damn you're right, thanks for ruining the moment lol
LOL I thought the same with the post production the first time I have watched it
Well all the sounds effects are added in post production. None of them are real or produced during filming.
@@tejasruikar I know but that one was so obvious and hilarious
Now, that's what I call Closure.
@Sümbig Dumkünt Bullshit, you're telling me they didn't notice the guns missing, and those last words would've given them a hint that it was going to be the last time they ever talk to their son. It's closure in my book, and honestly it's one of the best parts of this movie.
@@rocioquiroz11
It was bittersweet too...
Jessie's parents would be forever worried sick.
This scene really illustrates that Jesse did this to himself, this isn’t a case of bad parenting or neglect that put Jesse on a bad path this is a rare show that gave us a criminal protagonist who was raised well with opportunities but just made all the wrong choices in life.
Edit: the fact that after a year I’m still getting comments blaming Jesse’s parents for his choices is crazy
except for the fact that Walt was the nail in the coffin
@@lcdream4213 of course Walt was a factor but Jesse was already in that world before he went in business with Walt
Sorry for the two way too long messages, I'm really too invested in the show obviously...
About your message, I just want to precise I'm not blaming his parents neither, as Jesse said they did their best. But I'd might be more nuanced over the trouble past they carry with Jesse, maybe their parenting mismatched Jesse's potential znd vice versa. Despite coming from a wealthy family, and benefiting the material support (having inherited the aunt's houseand) I feel like he still lacked what mattered the most as the troubled teenager he was during high school (and what he seemed to seek during the whole show, and probably for his earlier adolescence) : guidance, and maybe some demonstration of concern and validation, or love.
Of course the parents were in very hard position, handling a son with addiction. But it's made obvious despite Jesse's relative young age that the relationship was being broken since a pretty long time: his little brother barely knows him, Walt had his aunt's address registered in high school files (and we know Jesse at the time had only weed issues, and graduated high school, he was more of a hard teenager than a lost cause), he seemed to live with the aunt early on until she passes away from cancer (circumstances which probably didn't help), leaving alone in the aunt's house (despite obvious lack of autonomy and immaturity, added to mourning his surrogate parent/aunt). Escalating the drug issue to meth use likely happent away from the parents sight (with probably some exhausting back and forth in the relationship with the parents, as the mother recalls, but no stability given, early on in the path).
Jesse himself told it at one point that he was felt abandoned when dealing with his aunt's agony ("she was here dying and where were you?") and you can feel it's an issue because she nipticks on Jesse's involvement (but we saw from many scenes how deeply involved he was in his aunt's cancer issues, at least emotionally) and she slaps him rather than answering or just aknowledging his feelings.
Maybe the family being so "perfect" didn't serve Jesse so much as the parents felt out of place to handle Jesse's issues (compared to Jane's dad or Andrea's mum, who took problems into their hands, and really support their young adult child). I think Jesse's parents may have been more frustrated at the situation, feeling overwhelmed as soon as weed was involved or feeling that Jesse would never be that medal seeker they hoped for (possibly why Jesse rebelled and starts pots in the first place). The mother yelling at him "why are you like this" (rather than "why do you behave like this"), I think, that tells all the frustration of their missed expectations (Jesse when he met Jane said that he disappointed his parents, and adds "again"), they ended erasing him from their life completely from the family (as shown on the car stickers representing only Jake and the parents).
I disagree i believe we are all products of our environment
@@carmody3155 but he had a good environment, you can be given a great environment and still end up on a bad path, the choices we make in life effect who we become and he made bad choices
Jesse: "You did your best."
Narrator: "They did not do their best."
Being patient with yoir meth head idiot son is definitely your best
Get real
This is the moment Jane became the Boeing 737
Yes
Chilling.
I get chills while watching this. It’s probably because I can relate to not wanting other people to blame themselves when it’s my fault
@Starscream91 lying about what? He manned the fuck. He made a decision to be apart of that "LIFE" gotta take everything that comes with it, be man and stick with it own it. His parents tried their best to give him a better life and did. As did mine, but I am the way that I am cuz I chose to be
Starscream91 he was lying about his pick up location yeah but the rest of it was all true
woah, badass dude.
Yeah
Lmao
The, "How's Jake, can I say hi to him?" Hurts me so much. He'll never see, hear, or talk to his brother ever again. That hurts (to me at least) more than never being able to talk to any other family members (partners and children excluded). I've got three younger brothers and the thought of never seeing them again is horrible.
Maybe one day he can find him and talk to him when his brother gets older
His Parents are pieces of shit and he has to leave his brother alone with them. So sad.
Anyone but me want to see a scene in Better call Saul where Flynn runs into Jessie at a bar in Alaska and starts talking about fathers and father figures? Clearly talking about Walt and Jessie's parents without ever realizing just how connected they were?
@@stanleytweedle1897
Na bro if you think about it put yourself in his parents shoes. They gave jesse MANY chances to get clean but he wouldnt change. You wouldn’t want your child to be like jesse lol from our perspective he’s a good guy but in real life he would be a failure of a son
@@officialtjtrev8910 drug addicts dont do drugs voluntarily, you cant really do much except hope and continue to support them
What sucks about this scene is that Jesse's parents just see him as another common criminal. They have no idea of the shit he's been through
This is the moment that Jesse's mom became Gus Fring's aunt
lmao tf
Well, you certainly killed that joke. It's over.
@@zekeiwa5837
no, i did not kill the joke. i just said "lmao"
@@jun-ki Breaking bad fans often say "This is the moment Walter White became Heinsenberg", after some time it became a meme and now basicaly everyone is saying random things like this, to make fun od that overused sentence.
HAAAAAAAAAAA
I'm so glad Breaking Bad was set in a time period with flip phones. Makes every phone call so much more dramatic.
Imagine how difficult would be to destroy a modern cellphone if the story took place in 2019 and not in 2010, I mean if you do it they would literally explode.
They still make flip phones, and I don’t think that they would buy a premium smartphone every time for a burner.
They still makes cheap phones
Just throw em in the river
@@Brandon-st2mc Most burners are smart nowadays.
This would be very hard to do nowadays.
@@roetemeteor No and no.
1:53 It's a small touch, but I appreciate how the parents don't hear the hang up tone and immediately say, "Jesse? Jesse?" Absolutely no one does that in real life, and it always looks dumb af when people do that in movies.
wtf r u talking about
Jesse? JESSE?? WHY ARE YOU SUDDENLY BEEPING
I assume you meant "do" instead of "don't" ?
the dial tone doesn't play immediately after someone hangs up
@@SpacePonder Let me rephrase: when the parents hear the hang up tone, I appreciate how they DON'T immediately say, "Jesse? Jesse?"
This whole movie to me is about Jesse finally becoming a man. Him making peace with his parents by taking full responsibility is really satisfying, especially given how his childlike impulses is what caused so much chaos for him during the course of the show.
hes a good person not meant to be apart of this cruel, unforgiving gang and drug business. he realized that this line of work wasnt for him, but who kept bringing him back? who manipilated, and coerced him at every turn? have some sympathy for jesse, and stop pretending like walter doesnt have any role in any of this
@@blinkbubs3994 ...but the comment didn't say anything about walt
@@blinkbubs3994 Nice projection.
@@blinkbubs3994 And no, he’s not a good person.
Right. His parents did fuck him up. The lie he told was that they were great. The truth that he told was that he still needs to take responsibility for his life as an adult. Powerful.
This would hurt so bad from Jesse’s perspective. To have to lie to your parents one last time and on top of that knowing damn well whether you live or die this will be the last time you ever hear or see from them again. It’s tough, even if your parents betrayed you as much Jesse’s did this would be a really shitty situation to live through.
how did his parents betray him? in every instance they appear to be normal loving parents in a nice home probably in a good area.
An they knew he Was lieing bzt played along knewing he Was trying to protect them.
Jesse's parents didnt betray him. They tried very hard. If you've dealt with an addict in your family you know their struggle very well. What you don't see are the hundreds of attempts to get him on the straight and narrow but if you give him the slightest account of leadway then theyll slip back into old habits. When you have other kids it becomes a situation where you have to choose to either leave one to his own devices or lose both. Probably the most painful thing a parent can do but it looks cold to those who don't understand. You just cant. With those types if you give them food and a warm bed then youll come home and find everything stolen to feed the habit
Jesse may be sympathetic to us but he was a junkie who turned into a major criminal that murdered people in cold blood. His behavior caused one of his gfs to OD and another to get executed by a drug gang. Jesse IS at fault for that. Jane was clean before him and he got her back on the stuff while trying to deal at narcotics anonymous. Walt didn't kill her, jesse did. He has a conscience but he did some horrible shit. From every other normal persons perspective Jesse is a monster
@@TheBacknblack92 EXACTLY. I see so many people
here with victim mentality and it's so pathetic seriously. Jesse made his own choices and that's his responsibility, end of fucking story lol.
@@TheBacknblack92 “Walt didn’t kill her” Eh, Walt did kill her though by inadvertently causing her body to roll onto her back in a much more vulnerable position. If Walt had never broken into Jesse’s home, Jane would have vomited onto Jesse’s neck and live long enough for her dad to drag her (and Jesse) off to inpatient rehab the very next morning. Walt refusing to correct his mistake by saving Jane is like accidentally setting a house on fire and refusing to correct your mistake by saving/alerting the person or calling the fire department.
Also, considering how Vince’s plan was to have Walt directly inject Jane with a lethal dose of heroin, that shows that Vince wanted to have Walt be the one responsible for Jane’s death. He only toned it down because the writers and Bryan objected, so Vince changed it to Walt deliberately turning Jane onto her back in the hope that she would choke. They still objected to that, so finally, Vince had it where Walt accidentally turns Jane onto her back.
“Jesse is a monster” Jesse has too much of a conscience to be a monster. He just needed to have one solid good mentor, which is why Walt was able to repeatedly manipulate Jesse for so long.
I agree with the rest of your comment though.
Taking accountability is something that not many characters do in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but Jesse is one of the rare cases. Him and Mike are my favorites for that reason.
I think Jimmy did. That's why he confessed. Also to save kim
walt does it in Felina too though
Jesse clearly isn't nearly as skilled in the art of phone snapping as Gus and Saul, they could do it instantly in one move.
"Just turn yourself in son"
Yes daddy lemme just spend the rest of my life behind bars your help is the greatest!
I'm guessing Jessie would get the chair.
Great family 👪
His dad didn’t know that disappearing was an option. The dilemma in real life is usually turn yourself in, get caught and get worse treatment, or possibly be killed by other criminals. People like to say BB is realistic but people like Saul and Ed don’t really exist and usually turning yourself in is the best option.
@@finnmacmanus5723 what you mean people like Saul doesnt exist
@@XXXPUBLICENEMY a genius ‘criminal lawyer’ who’s open to the public and has the insane connections he has isn’t actually plausible
I hate how Jesse Pinkman is the most relatable character I’ve ever seen on screen. Being a young man and knowing you had so much more potential to be better just fucking hurts.
“knowing you had so much more potential to be better” Indeed, I think that theme is best illustrated by Jesse’s lovingly crafted wooden box. At first, he says to his meth support group that he gave that box to his mom before he confesses that he actually sold it for an ounce of weed. This Esau-like trade of exchanging something valuable for something not so meaningful is repeated over and over throughout the series. Jesse trades his relationship with his parents for a drug addicted lifestyle. He trades a life with Jane in New Zealand for “one last high” with heroin. As someone naturally talented in organic chemistry, Jesse also trades his potential for working in the pharmaceutical industry for working in a more criminal industry. Even in El Camino, when Jesse has Todd’s gun while they’re out in the Painted Desert, Jesse trades his shot at freedom for some cheap pizza although at this point, you can’t blame him since his body is probably so starved for food.
Jesse’s “you did your best” line to his parents has the same vibes as Walt’s “I did it for me” line to Skyler
The difference is thst Jesse regrets his choices while Walt doesn’t…it’s just thst Walt was finally honest about it
Sometimes in life its either survival or surrender Jesse chose survival
just after surrendering became an unavailable option
and Walt chose complete badassery
@@weishen8996 yep
Saul and Gus broke their phones without any effort but jesse took a few tries to break it lol
experience
The show ended perfectly. The movie was just a nice bow to wrap it up further.
All that time he was imprisoned made Jesse reflect on his life and all the bad choices he made that got him there. He was dead on the inside until Walt broke him out. Jesse was reborn with a new will to live.
That took a lot of character to admit to his parents that he did wrong by himself, not them to him. Although I still think they were a bunch of dicks for kicking him out of their Aunt's house and putting it up for sale.
Imagine that you let your son live rent-free in a house that legally belongs to you. Then you discover a meth lab in the basement. If the cops raid the house, you're criminally liable. You basically have three options:
1) Report your son to the cops.
2) Do nothing, pray that your son never gets caught, while knowing that if he does, you and your wife are going to jail too.
3) Evict your son and sell the house without disclosing the meth lab (though, as they discover, that could also lead to criminal charges).
If my son forced me to choose one of those options, I'd probably be a little ticked-off at him too. I might even consider taking his sticker off the back of my car.
@@cherkovision very good points, its unfortunate that they tried to scam someone out of a cool 375k for that house though,
You kinda forfeit your right to the moral highground when youre willing to do several felonies to sell off your property, *just* to make your druggy son homeless.
Thats incredibly narcasistic, especially when its clear that they think its best for him to become worse off and force him to depend on people like walt, and later jane, just to be able to get by.
Whats more likely to happen when you force a drug addict into even more dire straights?
It sure isnt becoming clean, like jesse has tried to do time and again so he could get some emotional support, but they cast him out again, and not just from their home, but his home where he spent the last ten or so years looking after his aunt, who wanted him to have the house before she died, most likely because she knew how neglectful his family is.
based solely off the fact they never tried to even take care of her when she needed it most, because they do it to jesse without so much as a second thought after they find the lab..
If i ever seen my cousins or brothers treat their kid like the way jesses parents treated him, id take them in too, they didnt even try to help him with science class from what walt says.
Because i know for a fact jesse wouldnt be where he is if he had any actual support within his family, which he doesnt
@@cherkovision If someone is using drugs, the parents are pretty much a part of the reason (even more when both their sons use ). They raised him bad his entire life, his aunt was the one who he lived with and also the one who took care of him. He helped his aunt during cancer and that is why this was his house, his aunt gave it to him but not on paper. His parents literally did not care for him, even at school his aunt was the one who registered him and took care of thing. His parents literally did not give a shit about jesse, they raised him a fucked up way and tooking the house was like: "we did not help you with anything a parent should do almost you entire life but we are taking this house who your recently deceased aunt-mother gave you, sell to get some money while you live on the streets and we pretend we were good parents".
@@cherkovision Bad parents cut their sons out of their lives because they dont see how responsible they are for raising a bad son. You talk about how you would be embarassed and disapointed in your son if he uses drugs but you does not mention being sad and disapointed for the fact that him using drugs would means that you raised him wrong.
@@OnePieceSS23 You're reading a LOT of stuff that I didn't say. I just listed the options that you have when you find a meth lab in your son's basement. I never said anything about embarrassment or disappointment.
I think you're projecting some of your own issues here.
His parents love him
He loved his parents and bother
Life just goes that way sometimes
I was so glad Jesse's parents came back for this film. It was public news what happened with Walter and Jesse and the Nazi shootout and how Jesse was enslaved so imagine how horrible they must've felt for him. I realize he just needed his dad's guns but this was a great way for him to make amends with them before settling his last piece of business.
As opposed to what many seem to think, I don’t think this is Jesse exonerating his parents from any wrong doings they had committed. It’s just him trying to close that chapter in his life. Him saying “you did your best” is acceptance of the way things are and were in his childhood, but it doesn’t exclude that their best might still have been pretty shit. This and him saying “this is on me” is just him giving them and himself closure with the situation, so that they don’t have to feel guilty anymore and he can start living his life for himself and not make every decision in the shadow of his childhood and parents. Like he is taking back control of his life by taking responsibility, while achieving some sense of reconciliation with his parents for the last time. So now he can leave
I see "you did your best" as a blatant manipulative lie to his evil bitch mother. She wants to watch him fry in the electric chair and take full responsibility for everything she did to him. "This is on me" is the truth. As awful and damaging as some parents can be you do need to take control and responsibility of your life. Even if that is way harder for you than for most people. It's not an excuse. I have a similar relationship to my father.
ouch :(
Agreed. I agree that they probably did their best, but from what I saw I don't think that was very good. And I don't agree that his fate is entirely on him, but I can get behind his reasons for saying it. I'm just glad as hell that he didn't say "I'm sorry". I think I would have shut off the movie right there if he had.
He did this so that they would leave the house allowing him to break in and steal their gun
@@NoriMori1992 I’ve you’ve ever dealt with a family member that is hooked on drugs and wants to run the streets. You realize they did what we all would have done after awhile. Jesse choose to do those things, he dad a two parent household who would go out of their way to make sure he succeed. Then he wanted to goof off and have fun and break bad with the flunkies. We only see them after they cut ties but not when they had to deal with the stealing,lies,broken promises and rock bottoms. They also had another son they had to think of and keep from following him down his path. Could they have done better? Yes but how? How does a middle class family supposed to know how to handle a addict unruly child bent on destroying his life?
It’s sad the look of his face knowing that is the last time they talk to him and he already know what they were doing
His parents didn't even have photos of him in their home. They've already written him off in their lives.
The sad part is, they took them down all the way before season 1, theyve been trying to get rid of him for that long.
in the scene where jesse buys back his aunts house, there’s a stick figure family on the back of his parents car. a mom, a dad, and only one son
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I don't think its that sad. Personally I would have done the same thing were I in their position.
@@justliving920 That's pretty disgusting, willing to abandon your kid, because they become an addict? Good god, never become a parent, there's already enough jackasses around and we don't need you in the mix.
@@justliving920
You'd be a shitty parent.
The saddest thing is that this is the last time in his life he talks to his parents
It's not sad, good riddance of those irresponsible parents
Jesse asked to say hi to Jake🥺 He knew he would never get to talk to him again.
This is the most mature thing jesse has done to finally admit that everything he’s done was his doing and not anyone else’s is amazing character development
Jesse’s “I did it for me scene.” Beautifully filmed.
It's saddening seeing a goofy and chill pothead turn into this.
The scene right after he breaks the phone and says "it's Camino time" is even more heartwarming than this scene ❤️🙌
He doesn't say that tho
He says "it's El Camino time"
I thought this scene could’ve been even better if Jake wasn’t away, and he gave Jesse the combo to the safe.
I didn't like how his little brother was missing either but so many years passed since he was seen in Season 1 that they would need to recast him. Less than 2 years happen time wise but actors are 10 years older.
@@chamoo232 you’d think that with how successful the show was, the original actor would’ve been more than eager to appear in the movie. But he probably wasn’t written into the story at all so “he’s away on a band camp”
@@benmorgan8890 If they got the same actor it wouldn't work. He appeared in BB in 2008 when he was 13. He was 24 when El Camino came out. Jesse is supposed to be 25 in El Camino. We can get over adult actors looking older in Better Call Saul which is supposed to be a prequel but you can't explain a 13 year old looking 24 in less than 2 years of story.
@@chamoo232 oh true true I kinda forgot how long it was between the show ending and the movie lol
@@chamoo232 but still, I thought it would’ve been cool if like once his parents and the cops left, and Jesse tried to get in the safe and couldn’t. Then Jake would’ve been there to help him out and it would’ve been a nice little arc to when Jesse covered up for him smoking weed.
In the first episode of the series Jesse yells at Walt for failing him, blaming Walt for not passing chemistry. In el Camino he takes full responsibility
Jesse is an amazing character. When he gets back from rehab and tells Walt that he knows who he is, that he's, "The bad guy," it's heartbreaking.
He has a lot of altruistic, protective, almost childish qualities to him despite being a murderous meth manufacturer. When he asks his parents if they could come get him, it's a lot.
There are these moments where you can kind of see that genuine innocence. The whole call is a goodbye, but that's where his mind went. Asking his parents to pick him up after he got in trouble and got hurt.
Sad that his parents only cared about him getting caught. Dude was tortured for almost a year and they only care about how it makes them look. Jesse deserved better parents.
He was a slave fir like 6 months
They didn't know he was being tortured
The police would have wanted them to help track Jesse one way or the other
@@liavhanegbi2729 really?? Man, i swear it legit felt like years watching jesse turn from the goofy addict he was into a desheveled shell of his former self.
Mans had it too rough 😓
@@diesemautokerl2181 They did though. Everyone found out. It was on the news. And there's so much to be left to imagination when it comes to wicked, torturous Nazi gangs,
Those poor parents. That’s heavy to hear from your son, even if you had issues.
It’s really sweet if you kinda think about it , even though Jesse is not perfect and has made lot’s of mistake’s , it’s nice to know that his parent’s still love him , cause for example if we look at this from Walt’s storyline , Walt had it worse cause his family hated him in the end and he honestly deserved it cause he turned into such selfish piece if shit in the end , but Jesse was diffreint , Jesse had a good heart and even his parent’s knew that , and hearing their voce’s Jesse got comformation that they still loved him and that probably gave him satifaction and was okay with leaving to Alaska , and his parent’s may never see him again but they probably are happytoo that their son is alive and free.
Walt’s family hated him in the end , while Jesse was still loved by his family , it speak’s a lot about wich one of the two had a bigger heart.
The thing is, Walt literally made a mockery out of the DEA and the FBI, With him dead they would launch the wrath of god upon Jesse and everyone close to Walt just to save face. I'm talking scorched earth type shit. If i was his father i'd tell him to run and never come back, don't even call. There's nothing here for him anymore and he'll just end up dragging everyone and everything around him down with him into the sinkhole.
As much as Jesse clearly fucked up from his own poor life choices, I do feel like if he had more caring parents, he might not have turned to drugs. It's really quite telling that even though it was on the news that Jesse had been tortured and kept in a cage for months, his parents didn't even ask him if he was alright, all they were interested in was him turning himself in.
"No-one is coming to hurt you"
"Mom, I can break a Nokia. No-one CAN hurt me"
Whoever says that his parents never loved him are clueless. Jesse father even started to cry when he said that Jesse had to leave in breaking bad. Even his mother got angry at his father, but they knew that Jesse could potentially influence they’re younger son and didn’t want that. They didn’t knew how to make Jesse stop using drugs because he didn’t. In this movie they wanted Jesse to get caught not because they don’t care about him but because they wanted him surrender to prevent worst if the police catch him or even bigger criminals who might kill him
Yes indeed. I believe they were good loving parents to Jesse but sort of washed their hands of him after giving him chance after chance where he kept breaking their hearts over and over with his lying and stealing when he became an addict. They still loved him but stopped trusting him at a certain point in his life.
yeah but buying his aunt's house was a big low blow to them. He cared about his aunt but his parents ignored her and they still tried to sell her house and make money off it
No, they were shit parents who gave up on him because it was "hard."
Him getting thrown out because of his brothers joint is my reason why. It speaks to the oppressive environment the Pinkman parents created, that not only their oldest, but their youngest as well found solace in narcotics to escape from the familial pressures.
Not to mention the scene where Jesse buys the house from them. They have the stick figure family decal on their car. With only one son.
tl;dr Pinkman's parents are trash.
@@river7874 yeah, a lot of people tend to forget that Jake started smoking pot without any influence from Jesse and around the same age as him. Most likely for similar reasons.
Every parents who have morals would do the same
I dont think telling a man who's been tortured for two months to turn himself in and "do the right thing" is gonna work
after this scene the cops followed jesse’s parents when they left. if they actually picked up jesse he would’ve just been turned in
@Aaron Vega i mean the parents might not of even known, the fbi would 100% tap the lines of one of the most wanted mans parents. They dont need permission
@@carmody3155 yeah, because theyre corrupt.
Didnt the FBI go after some nobody because they posted edgy art about sonic? Lol
10k down the drain
@@notjimpickens7928 yeah you dont get no privacy in todays world
He knew the cops would follow bc they were watching the house. That’s why he got them to leave. So that he could go in and get whatever it was he wanted. It’s been so long since I watched.
@@carmody3155 maybe don't do illegal shit and u won't have to worry about "privacy"
This whole movie was a depressing rollercoaster.
Oh my god! My family has those exact plates!
Lol
A moment of silence to all the phones that got a violent ending
While I never liked how they treated Jesse, they were never in the wrong imo. Maybe they screwed up somewhere while raising him and it lead to him becoming a criminal, but he knows they did their best. I'm the middle child and I understand the first born has a rockier upbringing with first time parents. They make more mistakes, maybe too coddling etc but I believe they tried.
Jesse actually managed to do the one thing Mike told him he could NOT do (make things right), at least to some extent. He was able to give closure to his parents as well as Brock at least somewhat.
I was hoping the BCS finale would touch on the fate of Drew Sharpe (since the feds never got to see Jesse's confession DVD) but I guess not all wrongs can be made right.
This scene really hit hard. Tears me up watching it. Jesse is a good person and I don't think he ever could've forseen what would've happened to him and the people around him just by getting involved with walter.
Beautifully done. Great epilogue movie for Breaking Bad's ending. And yes, this movie is necessary, especially for true Breaking Bad fans.
It's on me AND I did it for me
both Walt and Jesse taking responsiblity for their own actions. Not blaming each other and not blaming their family
I loved el camino couldnt have done it any better.
I don't know if it would be a mercy, for the parents, or not. I don't guess it really matters though, because they will spend every day of their lives imagining all kinds of endings for their child.
Maybe it did help Jesse heal.
Him breaking that burners hella sad in a weird way
This is the moment Jesse's phone became NokiaBerg
very telling of Jesse's character to forgive his parents and tell them they did their best. they couldve been a lot more supportive, kind, and understanding. Jesse was obviously far from perfect, but they had a major hand in it.
I just want to know where Jesse got his heart from, because it wasn't from that pair! Proof: Jesse took care of his aunt when she had cancer. (How he got the house) the dying aunt was a sister of either the mother or the father - where were they? Why did the "screw up" have to step up to the plate? Caso cerrado!
@@lenawagenfuehr53 He got it from his aunt
Oh shut up lmao his parents were very loving.
In Jesses position I would’ve ran too, he was far to traumatized to turn himself in, and honestly I’d rather be dead than serve a life sentence
It’s sad hearing this and then thinking about it for a second. This time listening it just hurt a lot. Because his parents probably DID think that they did their best. That they tried. That they gave him second chances and third chances, and they still think he brought drugs back in their house (his little brother’s joint)… but then he tells them this, and they have to realize that he’s actually trying to be a good son. Trying to let them know it isn’t their fault what happened. Which has the opposite effect, because if he’s actually a kind enough person to say that to them, then he shouldn’t be in this situation. He should’ve had better parents who could’ve helped him before it got this far. I think it probably hurt them more to hear that. I mean, maybe some closure in hearing that he’s alive and okay, and that they raised a better person than they thought, but sad and angry at themselves much more that somehow they let that good person fall into such horrible times.
I think this phone call let Jesse move on. I didn’t take it literally that Jesse really believed that his parents played no role in his decisions. They obviously did. Jesse made mistakes too of course, but I think he was more sincere in his attempts to change than his parents were. His parents only were going to accept him if he made them look good, it’s a very conditional fake love. I think Jesse tried to meet them somewhere in the middle, a compromise in the path he took in life. But they weren’t willing to compromise on what they expected from their children. They didn’t want him for who he was (or his brother Jake) they wanted him as a trophy or object to display that would make them look good.
But going back to the phone call, he told his parents what they wanted to hear. He also reminded himself that if he truly wants to move on and transform into a new person in Alaska; he needs to take full responsibility for his actions moving forward.
Good scene.
Indeed
Thank you Chris
Imagine being Jesse’s parents- your son acts weird for a while, then out of fucking nowhere you find out he ran a massive drug empire with his old high schoolteacher you thought was a normal wholesome teacher
the thing is jesse still cared deeply about his family, even though jake was the only one that had the slightest of care for him
It says alot when this is only the second saddest parent son call in the Breaking Bad world
you could make a compilation of how many times people in the breaking bad universe destroy a phone after a conversation.
Jesses parents did bad things to him, but we only saw how things were by the time he was almost an adult, who knows what all his parents went through with him before BB. My point is I could always tell his parents still loved and cared for him so much..
Jesse: i have the worst family..
Saul: meet my brother Chuck
Bad people saying they have bad family members who won't support them because they make bad choices. Oh no!
@@ClintonKE
Except Jimmy started to actually change for the better like he had promised to Chuck. He still had a few “Slippin’ Jimmy” moments here and there but he still was pretty straight and narrow in comparison to his Slipping Jimmy days.
That was until he found out his efforts to make Chuck proud were for nothing because Chuck was doing everything he could to keep Jimmy down from having true legitimate success in the world of lawyers because Chuck couldn’t handle the idea of Jimmy being more successful than him.
Chuck failed to give Jimmy the support he needed to become a successful lawyer and in turn, Jimmy regressed back to his old ways and became the slimy Saul Goodman.
Jimmy may be a shitty person, but Chuck is far from blameless in regards to Jimmy turning into Saul Goodman.
never thought after all hes been through with no help, he still loves his parents, and his parents still love him
This movie wasn’t anything profound in any way. Really just felt like any other episode of BB. But personally, I think it was perfect. A well-needed closure for a brilliant story that tied up a lot of great loose ends ❤️
Presumably this is the last time jesse speaks to his parents, Jesse pretty much flees the country the next day so his parents will forever wonder why jesse wasn’t at the place he told them to pick him up and if he’s even alive.
no. I think they would realize pretty fast that the call was to get them to leave the house so Jesse could steal whatever was in their safe
I forgot about this. This show knows how to kick my cry button. I've always wanted him to admit that
this is a great scene where he takes responiblity for his actions. Like walter said season 4 I have made a seires of choices the show is about conqueneces.
Jesse is my fav bb protagonist so seeing a movie about what he does after the finale is great
the gravel in his voice. you can tell hes exhausted. fighting, running, fighting, running
This is the moment that Jesses parents bought a shoe shine business.
Shine box.
Imagine how fucked everyone would’ve been if the only company that made the flip-phones was Nokia
Jesse's call to his parents was a final farewell to them. Since Jesse made poor choices and chose the life of an outlaw, he leaves behind strained relationships and broken chances.
The moment they changed the gun box code to jakes birthday just shows how much they tried to forget about him.
Finally taking responsibility
Nacho walked so Jesse could run
This scene really hits home, my parents were always there for me and they always looked after me but I can’t help feeling like I could of been better I started to swerve so far to the left that I lost myself along the way I just want them to know it wasn’t their fault I turned out how I am