This was really a shame.
The way they showed early on in the movie how he would be arrested later on by the FBI in the carpark.
It took ALL the suspense out of the development of the story of a decent man changing into ......
Would the movie not have been much better if they simply would have left out this ''flash-forward'' about his arrest?
Yes, I agree with you. There was a sense of mystery and danger in their entire relationship from the very beginning. It took away from that a little by revealing where they were headed right up front. This may have been done because it was a true story and it was taken for granted that the audience was already familiar with the outcome. I was not familiar with the story at all though so it would have been much more suspenseful for me personally if the movie was as unpredictable as their relationship.
On a different note, I think that Ashley Judd should have been in the running for an Oscar for this performance..no joke. She nailed the mentally unstable behavioral patterns of the character she was playing.
Loan me fifty dollars.
This may have been done because it was a true story and it was taken for granted that the audience was already familiar with the outcome.I think that's the answer. People familiar with the story might otherwise be impatient waiting for the bank robbery stuff. By giving folks a taste of it right at the beginning, it's a way of saying "Hang in there with us--we're getting there".
It's a filming technique to show that he wasn't the stereotyped 'criminal'. He had been a very strait laced cop--even speaking out when his peers were abusing the people they took in. He liked science and wanted to open a bookstore, was an intellectual.
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