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the weakest point of the movie for me...

posted 13 years ago by exatera
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...was not the double jeopardy thing everyone here is harping on (I loved the ending - I really needed Hopkins's character to suffer after everything that transpired, and can't say I particularly care for legal technicalities (at least not in this case, since it all seems plausible enough to me)). It was Nunally's suicide. I mean, think about it: their entire case now hinged on that second bullet, but in real life what would have been the chances of a man killing himself over that verdict? And right there in court, no less.

Sorry, I just don't see it happening, no matter how much he loved her (and let's not forget she was still alive at the time - I mean, the almost total stranger Willy read poetry to her at the hospital, but Nunally didn't even visit??), or how much pain he was in. That entire incident struck me as extremely bizarre and out of place.

Crawford getting off could have set him on the path of revenge, yes, but not suicide.

[–] dgates64 13 years ago

I'm in agreement with you. Among the films's minor faux paus, that was the biggest for me.

At the very least, he should've taken a shot at Hopkins as he exited the courtroom, and thinking he killed him, then turn the gun on himself. After his suicide, Hopkins then gets up, only to be wounded.

[–] Jelly-4 13 years ago

I think the suicide was because of the humiliation he experienced - everyone knows he was having an affair and that he took a confession from his lover's husband. And now that guy is getting off scott free.

[–] drb101285 13 years ago

or consider that somehow he knew about (or was informed about) the gun switch, kept it to himself, and feared the crime was now pinned on him! The motive would be there. That may be why he killed himself. It's a stretch, but just as much of one as grieving over your lover's death, the perp's acquittal, and some courtroom embarrassment

[–] BuRanSOK 13 years ago

Yeah - the point is.. fine let's say we can stretch to believing he would kill himself...

.. what he really would've done in that case is shoot Hopkins first. That's the point. The man was angry and violent enough to try to strangle him in the court room.

Tell sanchito that if he knows what is good for him he best go run and hide

[–] mad_roke 13 years ago

Absolutely agree with all of you. This scene was so awkward, because if he really loved her so much and he knew that Hopkins killed her (which he obviously did), then he would've shot Hopkins, or tried it at least before committing suicide.

[–] liza-chiber 13 years ago

I think that while many people, if not most, could be driven to suicide from despair or humiliation, they would still be unwilling to kill another person "in cold blood" (not as self-defense or line of duty). So I totally believe that this could've happened without the cop taking a shot at Crawford.

[–] lamont-hard 12 years ago

He may have committed suicide because he was the cause of the whole thing with bedding a man's wife. We don't know how she felt about him o the true reason why she decided to have an affair. It could have been she was getting back at her husband and did not really even love him.

[–] law607 11 years ago

To me the weakest part of the movie was that Crawford's whole plan centered around Nunally walking into a crime scene involving a possible hostage situation where an armed gunmen asks a police detective to relinquish his weapon and he actually does it.

Then the detective has to be so emotionally distraught that he turns his back on the murder suspect with TWO firearms in the room.

I had wished the writers had given that scenario a little more thought as that would never happen, not ANY of it.

Sometimes when you want the devil, you have to go to hell and get him!

[–] pc-daisy 10 years ago

That seemed plausible to me. He was so shocked to see her laying there and knowing she had been shot in the head. A hell of a way to find out who she was and where she lived in a terrible way. Also his suicide did seem plausible to me, too. He had lost his family and his career, while losing the woman he loved. And in such a public, humiliating way, he had to sit by and watch the man who shot her walk off, 'scot free', because of what he did.

I know from personal experience how frustrating that is for police and law prosecutors when it is a stranger, but to be so personally and publicly destroyed would be enough to have him lose reason. What shocks me is that even a policeman can take a gun into a courtroom. Not sure if that is permitted in Australia.

[–] old-skool101 10 years ago

Agreed... Crawford could've just asked to see Nunally as one of his "hostage" demands.

[–] gottaluvafriend 8 years ago

Nunally's suicide showed his weakness, which was his attachment to Crawford's wife who he couldn't let go of. The movie is about human weakness, about where and why people "fracture".

[–] davebuffalo (3515) 7 years ago

re: Nunally didn't even visit??

You don't know that he didn't, just because it wasn't shown in the movie.

Besides, would a lover typically go visit his MISTRESS in the hospital? That's a bit awkward. Maybe he was married too.