I borrowed this tape from the library and the last 1/2 hour was cut off! I didn't like it much and so won't bother watching it again. But I would like a brief synopsis of how the movie winds up. Tony Perkins had just fired Orson Welles as his "Advocator". What then? Thanks!
My life has major plot holes.
I really don't want to tell you the ending because you should always watch for yourself. This is a great film and it is available on DVD in many places, so you've got no excuse. However, since somebody will probably break down and tell you the ending anyway, it might as well be me- but this is a lazy and bastardly thing to do:
**SPOILERS** below
After K dismisses the advocate (which means lawyer, by the way), the advocates nurse Romy Schneider tells K to try to get help from Titorelli, the court painter. When K goes to Titorelli's place to look for him he makes the mistake of asking a mob of girls who turn out to be crazy for Titorelli. The swarm up the stairs to the painter's place after K, and Titorelli (who, ironically, is obviously gay) has to literally throw the girls out of his very small apartment and bar the door. Here K discovers yet again how hopeless his case is. Titorelli hits on him, just adding to K's fear and depression. He slumps in a corner as if trying to shut it all out. He reaches into his pocket and finds a gun the nurse must have given him. K shoots Titorelli, and bursts from the apartment, taking down several of the girls. The mad chase becomes drem-like and he finds himself under the city and then back in the lsaw offices. K still shoots wildly, passing other characters from the film. He's now a hunter thing and actually guilty. The chase ends abruptly with K trapped on a ledge overlooking the courtroom from earlier. He has no way out. A woman in a labcoat, standing on the opposite ledge tells K that the computers calculated the crime he was most likely to commit: Suicide. K jumps to his death and we fade out on his body on the courtroom floor.
**END SPOILERS**
Happy?
vote THE TRIAL (1962) into the Top 250!
Thanks. I made the same request on the "I need to know" board and got a totally different answer:
http://us.imdb.com/board/bd0000001/flat/10228389?d=10228389#10228389
So I'm not sure what to think. That library copy (VHS) was terrible print quality throughout, I guess I'll have to give it another chance with a better copy.
My life has major plot holes.
http://us.imdb.com/board/bd0000001/flat/10228389?d=10228389#10228389
I'll tell you why you got two different answers: that guy lied, and so did I. I don't believe in spoiling the endings of movies, especially when they're this good. Each answer you got contained some truth, but neither is quite the real thing. See it for yourself, my friend, you'll be doing yourself a favor.
vote THE TRIAL (1962) into the Top 250!
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I told you I tried to watch the movie - the library tape must have broken. The movie seemed too pretentious, and now I see the whole appeal, to pretentious folks - so never mind, I don't ever need to see or know the ending. And since the beginning sucked, I'll just vote it a 2.
My life has major plot holes.
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Don't listen to people who won't tell the truth or who are rude. I encourage you to get a good copy of the movie - it is really quite good.
AT the end, K is taken out into a rocky pit by 2 thugs. They threaten him with a knife and imply he should kill himself with it. He seems to give up, but he won't kill himself. They walk away, then throw lighted dynamite into the pit. He starts laughing and then gets blown up.
end of movie.
Also, he picks up the dynamite in order to throw it back. Then Welles cuts away to a long shot - boom! Did K avoid the explosion, or not? We don't know...but probably not.
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