In real life, it's unlikely that an enraged person would have merely given his wife's murderer a clean execution. Those types of things tend to inspire brutality. It's more likely that Brad Pitt's character would have shot the suspect in the genitals or knees and then brutally assaulted him, leaving him maimed but probably alive.
I'm wondering why the director made such a huge oversight in his script.
Seriously!
Every time I watch this I hope Mills shoots John in the balls a dozen times or pistol whips the shìt out of him like i imagine i would. Never happens though.
(Assuming you're being serious with this post.)
You really don't understand this movie, do you? If Mills hadn't killed Doe, then Doe wouldn't have achieved his Grand Plan. The whole point was that he did and you end up with a deliberately downbeat ending. There was no huge oversight on the part of the director - this was the ending the entire film was working towards.
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When you get angry blood goes to your hands, and in this case Mills had a gun in his hands, so his first impulse was to shoot Doe anywhere he could, because when you're furious you don't go "Oh, I'd shoot him in the balls, that'll hurt more", you just pull the damn trigger. Also, consider that he was confused, because his pregnant wife was just murdered. It makes sense to me.
shareHere's what's dumb about the ending:
So Mills and Somerset know that John Doe has their identities when they find his pictures of them in his apartment.
So, you'd think that Mills would be a little bit worried for Tracy's safety. Maybe posting a police escort or guard outside theIr door until they catch this criminal? I mean really, Mills doesn't bother to check in or call on his wife the entire time it takes John Doe t break into his house and behead his wife?
~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.
If my wife and unborn child were just murdered, and the murderer is sitting there coaxing me, and I have a gun, I bet I would shoot him in the head.
shareThe real question is, John had been planning this for at least a year, how did he know Mills would enter his life with exactly the right circumstances acquired for envy and wrath?
shareThe real question is, John had been planning this for at least a year, how did he know Mills would enter his life with exactly the right circumstances acquired for envy and wrath?
He didn't know. However, he knew the kind of action that would provoke a reaction of Wrath in the right individual - all he had to do was find one. If you recall, during the telephone call with the detectives, he said that he was going to have to 'advance his schedule' - he was changing his plans, in other words. I suspect either he thought better of his original choice for Wrath, once he had seen the kind of temper Mills had when they met on the staircase, or he was still waiting for one to come along - either way, Mills fitted the bill.
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You're talking nonsense. Your complaint is from the perspective of a film watcher, not realism.
it's unlikely that an enraged person would have merely given his wife's murderer a clean execution.
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