just terrible. pacino goes soft and it's implied he resigns?
in real life cusack's character gets fired, and pacino's goes on with his career.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DYJvI4Me0
Well, by that logic, the judge wouldn't have resigned either. The point was he was a good man at heart that got corupt by power.
shareI agree with you about the ending. It turns this average, almost-bad film into something finally terrible itself.
shareYeah and the weird sh-t continues even after that - suddenly Cusack is on a street corner selling himself, all upbeat, and then Bridget Fonda (whose character´s presence in the film is hard to explain to begin with) strolls around to make things even more jolly and jovial. A regular freaking happy ending as it were, complete with some smartass dimestore wisdom from Cusack on the departing voiceover (a device used extremely clumsily in this film - thank god it only appears in the beginning and the end). I´m quite sure this darned ending was masterminded by Paul Schrader who´s very much used to pulling such bizarre, off-the-wall happy endings - just check out Hardcore and American Gigolo for reference.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
that frank anselmo kills himself b/c of his wife's osso buco is strange. it couldn't have been that bad.
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