Smith never wanted to be a revolutionary. He just wanted to be left alone, and at the start of Roger Donaldson's Sleeping Dogs he literally wants to go off and live on an island on his own after a messy break-up. But he gets dragged into the fight against a very homegrown fascism and sees a lot of people brutally die for no good reason.
And by the end of the film, adapted from the equally bleak Smith's Dream by the acidic C K Stead, and all the death and cruelty he has seen, he has had enough, and walks off, giving the finger to the man as he wanders away away from the brutal scum. He knows they are just going to kill him and he just does not give a stuff anymore.
He's immediately gunned down, of course. But he was doomed from the start, and at least he went out on his own terms. They never broke the man who just wanted to be left the hell alone.
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