Cuckold becomes Warrior (Psychology behind the story)

Rating: 6/10 (5 December 2008)

The typical story of the weakling/cuckold who matures into the masculine warrior with excessive "Kill Bill" type violence/light gore and two brief sex scenes. However, the character development and story line is much better than a "Kill Bill" movie.
The main character, Wesley, is not the "king" of his life - not in control and without order. Nor is he a triumphant lover. He is a pathetic cuckold, obviously impotent both in and outside of bed. A whining, unwilling, and beaten down masochist. He is not wise either because he doesn't work his way out of his problems but rather fate falls upon him. He lacks direction in his life, nor has a strong father figure (signs of no wisdom). His inner monologue is throughout the beginning of the movie demonstrating his overbearing self-importance and self dread. He is the symbol of all that is the worst in a man. He is an immature boy needing to be matured. He is also the symbol of the "divine child" as he is the son with special capabilities and a "royal genealogy" of being the best assassin's son.
There are two main women characters in the movie. In the beginning, his obese woman supervisor is an overbearing sadist and represents the typical overbearing mother figure. His break from his job and rejection of her sadist relationship is the turning point of his boyhood to manhood. (I'm talking about boy vs. man psychology - not age.) Yet, this is not done without first meeting the seductive, powerful,skillful, in control Fox (Angelina Jolie) - a woman who is more of a man than he is. The "turn on" for his own maturity.
The immature Wesley becomes psychologically tied to the apron strings of Fox and is led towards masculine maturity primarily through her (as she oversees his training and smacks him around a bit herself.) So, Wesley leaves the sadistic fat but distant she-boss and enters a Female domination type relationship with seductive tensions and physical abuse from Fox's other male colleagues - the fat butcher, the bullish boxer, and the knowledgeable gunsmith.
Lost in an unknown illusion, Wesley grows in control, in wisdom, in becoming a warrior, and in being a lover. Yet, he is not fully mature until he overthrows this second mother figure - Fox - and this doesn't happen until his "finds himself" in the true identity of his father. Now, the true father figure introduces true justice and right order into Wesley's life. This along with his training, brings him to be the "mature masculine" assassin. He is king (in complete control of himself), warrior (skilled to fight and energized by order and justice), Wiseman (for he now knows the meaning of his life), and a mature lover (he loves what is right over the sensual attractions around him.) He gains the fidelity and self-giving love of Fox in the end of the movie too. Her character dies as Wesley, the "divine child," is "resurrected" (fully realized) into the mature man through his "selfless" (self-risking) act of defeating the main antagonist - Sloan (Morgan Freeman).
(This is the story line but obviously being an assassin, killing people left and right, is not true mature behavior. But this is the classical mythology archetypes and plot lines.)
I'd vote this a 9/10 for the development of the character but too much graphic violence - who needs to see the back of a head blown open...several times?