"Nothing to Lose": Is Tim Robbins Secretly DEAD the Whole Time?! (A Wild Theory)

Okay, so I watched "Nothing to Lose" again last night (don't judge, it's a comfort movie, alright?), and I had a completely off-the-wall thought. What if Nick Beame, played by Tim Robbins, is actually like... dead for most of the movie? Hear me out! The whole thing starts with him finding out his wife's cheating and then getting carjacked. The sudden, violent shift in his life could be interpreted as his 'death' in a symbolic way. Everything that follows is almost too convenient, too cartoonish, too… wacky. It's like a purgatory where he gets to work through his anger and betrayal with T. Martin (Martin Lawrence) as his unlikely guardian angel. Think about it: Nick goes from a stressed-out ad exec to someone who's suddenly totally chill and just accepts Martin into his life. He doesn’t call the cops, he's remarkably unfazed by the whole situation. It's like he has nothing left to lose… literally. And all the incredibly improbable situations they get into, like conning the bad guys and getting away with everything... it just kinda feels like a fantasy playing out. The whole 'stolen money' plot has a very purgatorial feel, the idea of trying to fix (or destroy) what's been done. Even his relationship with his wife seems weirdly… resolved, almost like a goodbye in the end. Maybe the point isn’t that he actually died in that carjacking, but that his old life died. His faith in humanity, his trust in his wife, all that is gone. It's a new 'Nick' who emerges-- a Nick who's willing to break the law, bend the rules, and form an extremely unlikely friendship. Tim Robbins plays "relaxed" very well, like nothing bothers him, and that's a really interesting choice. I know this probably sounds insane, and it’s totally reaching, but I just can't shake the feeling that there's something deeper going on beneath the surface with this one. Let me know what you guys think!