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This movie could been perfect for a great double twist (SPOILERS INSIDE)

posted 8 years ago by unnouinceput
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I love double, triple and multiple twists plots, and this movie got the 1st half opened for a great at least double twist. Instead it had only one twist, that can been spotted miles away from the first 10 minutes of the movie.
The 2nd half let us a bit wondered if she was indeed a German spy or not, with a drama at the end when she kill herself. I would've changed the script to instead have a heavy thriller action part where Pitt character would chase around some more, instead of stopping at only one drunk guy in a French jail, to actually have more digging to do, then come to conclusion she is a German spy, and kill her as the law implied by Frank was. And then the double twist to be when Monday arrives Frank to tell him no message was passed and he killed his wife for nothing. Now that would been a good ending with a nice double twist.
But nah, Hollywood is too dumb for greatness so instead we got a mild entertaining movie which barely can pass for me.
My 2 cents.

[–] Kray2013 8 years ago

Yes, a wasted opportunity. There are many ways the plot could have been more suspenseful - he might have been shown having doubts about some of her slip ups earlier, she might have been a turned agent or HE might have been the agent who had to cover his tracks.

[–] enriquesinghjr 8 years ago

I would have had her kill him and for her true love (a Nazi) to arrive at the end to take her back... evil wins and even though she had his child and everything she was only following orders, she never truly loved him... he did love her.

[–] [deleted] 8 years ago

Good one dude

[–] axl7 8 years ago

I would have had him writing down a fake message on the notepad, she would have been cleared because she would have not sent the message they were expecting to hear, but Brad Pitt could have asked ( in some way ) to have access to those messages and he would have known via the fake message that she was a spy and then confronted her...

"Please, if you are trying to convert me, this isn't a good time"

[–] lasteven (309) 8 years ago

Good one! That would really leave it up to him what to do in the end--could he ever trust her?

[–] Sagaz99 (4) 8 years ago

This is exactly what I was expecting him to write down in the notepad. Then at the end she tells him the truth but he keeps that knowledge to himself.

[–] CountJohn (602) 8 years ago

This is one of those things that will never please anyone. People complain about shoehorned in twists (look at M. Night Shyamalan) but then complain specifically because a movie doesn't have a twist.

As it was, I wasn't sure f she was a spy or not throughout the film the first time, so that was somewhat of a surprise, and I wasn't expecting her to kill herself.

The problem with the OP's ending is that it's just a twist for the sake of it (not unlike some of Mr. Shyamalan's) and doesn't mean anything or tell us anything about the characters. It would've just been "Oh, Brad Pitt killed his wife for no reason, that's a bumber). In the actual ending, we see the transformation of Cotillard's character from a Nazi spy to a devoted wife and mother through her self sacrifice.