does anyone else think Teri Hatcher's character gets caught, after all?
I thought so because:
1. Eric Stoltz is suspicious from the beginning; you see the first suspicion in his eyes when she is more concerned about what the injection might "show up" in her urine...both actors played that subtle moment so well...I really admired that.
That in turn opens him up to looking at her differently...and when the cigarette pack and her
"they" referring to the killers slips out, I seem him just go into terrier mode; he smells a rat...and sees this as the case that could get him into Homicide.
2. So he goes back and endures that painful shooting and fear but also gets to "look the devil in the face" (Spader,) and by Aiello saving him, he gets to add up to his "they" amount of killers.
3. Finally, Hatcher's character struggles up to her car, looks for the key, and with a big smug smile on her face, notices the parking ticket, which she tosses out the window as she drives away and the camera focuses on the Japan Games to come...but what she does not realize is that the ticket will pretty much blow her alibi to bits, it's a time and placement of the car without her in it, and she DOES NOT LOOK AT THAT INFO BEFORE TOSSING IT; NOW SHE WILL HAVE TO FIND OUT BY HOOK OR CROOK WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN WITHOUT SEEMING ANXIOUS...and all this with Mr. Stoltz eyeballing every move made that night, the night of the murder; unless she gets a smart talking lawyer who claims she was abducted and injected there, taken home and framed by being put next to her husband...but wow, seems that would give rise to some quite reasonable doubts...what would it be, a mad stalker, where did he go afterwards?
I really thought all cast members did a great job and she did in that last moment too...I was holding my breath hoping she would get it, and at the same time thinking, "okay you little Medal obsessed girl, now you have crossed the same line as the people you hired and nothing seems to apply to you morally anymore!" THAT is a good actress, to be able to get two feelings out of the person watching the movie, by doing so little, you know what I mean?
I know the credit also goes to the director and in this case also writer, for giving her the way he wished her to play this...but the expression in her eyes, and her supreme disregard for the very real complications to come really was great, no other word.
Again, everyone had a delightful way of helping each other's performance, making for a better movie, when professionals get together and just do the simplest thing...listen to the other person, not just respond with the right line, you can feel the crispness and the tightness of the work, and it is a real pleasure.
I found myself feeling sadness for Ms. Theron's character when she died...suddenly she was a little girl again...
I could go on and on...but this is a good place to stop. Thanks!!!!