I agree with you that a character in a film doesn’t have to apologize for who/what he/she is. Unsympathetic characters are definitely an acquired taste.
The point I was trying to make, and I guess I failed, is he didn’t apologize to his brother while he met up with him after all that time passed. I don’t think he said he was sorry to his wife after the big incident happened at the brother’s house either. Jake obviously didn’t have “I’m sorry” in...