Ending totally implausible (Spoiler alert)
Does anybody agree with me that the final resolution of this film is totally implausible if not impossible? How could these women possibly have succeeded in covering up their guilt and the events of the evening, cleaning the crime scenes, and disposing of Caesar's body, without either the mob, the police, and/or the neighbors catching on to them?
A few minutes before Tilly shoots Caesar, Tilly has called Mickey and told him to come back quickly to help her. With $2 million on the line and the crime boss missing, you can bet Mickey and others from the gang would be arriving pronto.
So how could the two women possibly dispose of Caesar's body before the mob arrived that night? They would have had to:
1) Pick up the body covered with and in the middle of a huge puddle of white paint
2) Prevent the white paint from dripping in the hallway or elsewhere.
3) Prevent themselves from dripping white paint in the hallway or elsewhere from their footprints.
4) Use both women to carry the body out because of its weight and their not being extremely big and strong themselves.
5) Avoid being seen by not only the mob, but also by other tenants in this large condo building, the body being on one of the upper floors.
It doesn't seem possible to do it before the mob arrives. Once the mob arrived, wouldn't the mob be watching every move that is made in and out of that building?
Wouldn't the police have been called in again after the final round of multiple gunshots? Especially the bullet shots aimed downwards, which would have likely penetrated the floor and through the ceiling of the condo one floor below.
Even if somehow the two women were able to dispose of Caesar's body without the mob knowing, why would the mob believe Tilly's full story carte-blanche?
Wouldn't Tilly be immediately on the mob's suspected list given that the money was still unrecovered and she *could* have been lying and could have been involved in some way with or without the complicity of Caesar, and/or could have known the whereabouts of the money?
Even if they believed her, why would they let her go? Why would they not simply kill her? She knows too much about this particular affair and the mob in general. The mob does not give consent for "family" or "family" spouses to just "walk away" from the mob and mob associations and leave town to live a new private life away from the mob. It would be too dangerous to the mob to allow family members and/or their spouses to do so.
One person on this blog assumed that Vi met Mickey outside of the building after she killed Caesar and that Mickey never went into Caesar's condo when he arrived following Vi's phone call to him asking for help. That seems impossible for the following reasons:
Mickey would HAVE to have come into the condo. Even if Violet had lied to him and never told him about the bodies in the apartment when he arrived that night, he would still be compelled to insist on searching Caesar's condo that evening. That is because there would be several mysteries for Mickey and the mob to solve:
1) Where is the money?
2) Where is Caesar?
3) Where are the mob boss, his son, and the other gangster, and what happened to them?
4) Why did Caesar lie about the 3 dead gangsters being alive and in the hospital following a car crash which never happened?
5) Who ransacked Johnny's apartment and why?
6) What was Vi's knowledge of, and/or participation in, Caesar's actions, and what was the time frame of everything she knew about and did regarding Caesar's actions?
There would have been so many serious unanswered questions that the mob would HAVE to come into Caesar's condo and thoroughly search it for any clues that might help them answer these unanswered questions.
It seems to me that the Tilly character could not have confidently assumed that she was going to get away alive, and with the money no less, after shooting Caesar. Please let me know your thoughts, whether or not you disagree with me, and why.
To me this was an extremely implausible ending to this movie. Other parts were somewhat implausible, but this aspect at the end is absolutely and completely implausible.
All of the cleanup after the murder of Caesar was neither shown nor explained in the film. There is a huge hole in the plot starting the moment after Caesar falls dead until the next scene which is several days or weeks later when it is shown that Tilly and her friend are leaving town with the money and the mob is permitting Tilly to leave and has no suspicions about her. I believe the writer/directors knew that the ending was so implausible if not impossible that they purposely left this huge hole in the script. I am wondering how many viewers realized at the very end how implausible the ending was, or if they simply never thought about it.
What do you think?