An Acceptable Loss builds upon the patriotism of movies released in the past and questions what is justifiable so Americans can feel safe?
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An Acceptable Loss Ending Explained (Spoilers)
In the end, the acceptable loss is Elizabeth. Adrian, her ex-boyfriend, now President Rachel Burke’s chief of staff, disregards Rachel saying to let Elizabeth go. You know, put the power of the president against one former staffer who feels jilted. After all, she was detrimental to President Burke getting what she wanted. She went from vice president to president with likely some credit to making America safe. I mean, to show how there was no bad blood between them, Elizabeth was offered a position in Rachel’s cabinet as Secretary of State. Yet, because she worked off of bad intelligence, and killed 150,000 people for six targets, Elizabeth couldn’t do it.
However, considering just the amount of protests Elizabeth dealt with, just as an ordinary citizen, imagine what would have happened if her memoir came out? One which reveals, using known faulty intelligence, the VP arranged, manipulated the then president, to do a nuclear strike. Adrian couldn’t allow that. Never mind what would happen to Rachel’s career, but what about his?
So, the acceptable loss is of the woman he once loved and pinning everything on the boy, Martin, who lost his father, and now has an ailing mother, because of that nuclear strike. After all, what inspires terrorism more than a superpower which acts out of its own terror? But, what wasn’t accounted for is that, on top of Elizabeth handing her handwritten memoir to Martin, that Martin would take pictures of Elizabeth’s notepads and send them to his roommate Jordan. The person who now holds the truth in his hands and us not knowing whether he’ll expose the current administration or just go see his boyfriend and, as the Peaches song goes “F*** the pain away.”
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