This movie was amazing. Tommy goes back to his captors because he does not have control, it was him giving up control that's what first led him to using drugs, "taking a holiday" as he puts it, and he goes back to the family to shield him from the reality that his REAL family didn't give a shit about him. They didn't even file a missing person's report. He's once again taking a holiday from his life, except this holiday was conditioned into him by his captors. Both protagonist and antagonist gets what they want. The movie reminds me of Whiplash, in that sense. It makes me think back onto people's relationship with work, a lot of people use work as a buffer between them and their emotions. We get structure, rules, routine, supervision, rewards, and punishments. The safeguard of predictability makes things make sense. I hated my previous job, but I find myself wanting less responsibility for my independence. Corporate life sucks. I'm stripped of autonomy, I'm reduced to good and bad, I only have to conform... and I personally don't like that. I hate relating everything to work but it's true. The movie makes you realize that replacing one addiction for another is part of recovery. Tommy had his identity provided to him by that family. And we ultimately accept these provided identities for us when we relieve ourselves of control. When we bend to abusive authority to survive. We internalize and we don't know who we are from what we're told to be. Don't get me wrong, Tommy isn't a good person, but just like anyone, he deserves to make good on his own accord. And what he does at the end isn't. He brings his girlfriend back to the fucking family wtf! Yes, i know he wants to help her but this stockholm syndrome conditioning bullshit isn't rehabilitation. He was not learning how to stand on his own two feet, he was being conditioned to assimilate the identity of someone else.