An expert also on endangered or extinct butterflies (totemically like himself), Jack possessed a butterfly tattoo in the center of his back, and was referred to by two women as "Mr. Butterfly" (Mr. Farfalle) - one of the film's recurring symbols.
With a screenplay adapted by Rowan Joffe from Martin Booth's novel "A Very Private Gentlemen," the stately and meditative film ended with a predictable plot-twist: he had been set up when the Belgian Mathilde attempted to kill him with the gun, but because he had sabotaged and modified it at the last minute, it blew up in her face and killed her instead. Before expiring, she confessed that Pavel had wanted him dead.
Lethally wounded in the abdomen during a final deadly gunfight with Pavel, he sought to rendezvous at the picnic spot with Clara and run off with her - she had earlier asked: "Take me with you." As he arrived, he collapsed over the steering wheel and died, as a white butterfly took flight.


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