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The ending... (spoilers)
posted by Daddie0STAFFMOD on September 26, 2017 at 12:14 AM
While the ending nicely wrapped everything up, for me I wasn't buying it. To imagine his character made such a glaring oversight after so much control, manipulation and intelligence seemed so unlikely as to be bizarre. I had missed this film when it first came out, and it held up well, but for me this was one spot where it didn't really work. Still, a really great film!
Reply by DRDMovieMusings
on November 13, 2017 at 7:20 PM
But, the movie is called Francture... he spoke at length about finding hairline fractures in eggs that no one else saw... yet he himself missed the fracture in himself, that is the story!
Reply by Daddie0
on November 21, 2017 at 4:08 AM
Again (and I'll ignore the spelling mistake :), I just don't buy that someone would be so precise and miss something so obvious. I know it is the point of the film/story, but it's not a point that fits it's own narrative IMO.
Reply by Renovatio
on November 21, 2017 at 4:18 AM
They needed a feel good ending where the evildoers get punished... BUT i still think it worked as he was so blinded by revenge that he missed this subtle point...
Also, he had no way of knowing that the officer would have killed himself and his gun entered into evidence/storage...
Reply by DRDMovieMusings
on November 21, 2017 at 10:02 AM
Thank you, that's all it was, promise! Not like I confused who/whom, or its/it's, or amount/number, or foisted a "should of" upon anyone :-)
Reply by Daddie0
on November 21, 2017 at 4:21 PM
This is how it felt to me, but your second point is a good one. I guess part of the appeal of a film like this is that we--the audience--become so enamored with the skill of the antagonist that we end up rooting for him/her, twisted as that may be. And in the end, anything that doesn't fully satisfy both our built up expectations _and _the need to resolve the film in a "moral" way feels cheap and convoluted. Maybe it's just me, but I almost always prefer the former to the latter, unless the latter is done with precision.
Reply by DRDMovieMusings
on November 21, 2017 at 5:59 PM
That is true. But, it's almost (not quite, but almost) irrelevant because, the cop killing himself notwithstanding, a new trial would not have been possible if he'd left his wife on life support indefinitely.
It was his action of pulling the plug that changed her condition and thus changed the status of the case. New evidence on the resolved case of attempted murder is one thing; but the new evidence has teeth because a new charge was available.
And, once again, it's his character flaw, his fracture, that made all the difference.