When thinking of films that exemplify many cinematic elements put together in an interesting and organized way, the film Rumble Fish comes to mind. Director Francis Ford Coppola demonstrates how metaphors can help decipher the film's deeper meaning. Rumble Fish is a film about growing up and seeing new things you've never seen before. The two main characters, brothers Rusty James and the Motorcycle Boy, experience internal conflicts. Rusty James, the younger of the two, admires his brother and wants to be like him. However, the old man has overcome his previous behavior of always fighting and does not want his brother to follow in his footsteps. Throughout the film he asks Rusty James why he is following him. The biker knows that his brother is somehow trapped in the city and someone needs to get him out or free him. He looks at the fish in the pet shop to explain it and that's how he relates to his brother's problems. This is the scene that will be examined where Rusty James is in the pet store with his brother and they are looking at the fish. It has been explained how much everyone in town admires the Motorcycle Boy, and on numerous occasions Rusty James has said that he would look like him when he was older. Even though the biker never shows much affection, he wants something better for his brother, and even though he never tells his brother to leave until the end, when he knows he is going to die, he tries to let him know through the fish. So up until this point in the film the viewer never really knows how the biker feels about his brother. The pet shop is a metaphor for the life of these two brothers. The biker feels that the fish are angry because they are trapped in the aquarium, he says that if they were in the river they wouldn't fight. To him Rusty James is the fish and if he got out of their town he would realize that there is something more to life. The scene begins with the clouds dissolving and a sign that says “Pet Shop".