All i wanna say is Nola was pregnant..how dumb police can be...if they investigated properly they could have found killer..this movies plot is so unrealastic...Chris always said he loves nola but it was just sexual...y plot writer wanna show us how good he is and how he ended up...instead he should have showned how *beep* he is...
shareI watched it again most recently and I see now why they would drop it. Our cops would probably not have been so delicate with him in their questioning and would have pursued the angle of him killing her more than they did, but they did suspect him and at least one cop was going to pursue him after figuring out how he did it. I'm going to assume that if he did, they would have checked phone records, more people would have been interviewed (although it was already known they here having an affair). The motive was getting rid of a pesky girlfriend, pregnant or not. The big but for the prosecution would be getting around the ring being found on the junkie - big reasonable doubt that any defense attorney would have gotten him off for and probably big enough that the prosecution would not have gone on. However, but for luck, if they had pursued it, they would have found the cabdriver and the guy he bumped into, and even the hatcheck girl who could have said those were some damned heavy rackets (also no one to have seen him actually using the things that day). It would have been all circumstantial, but maybe, maybe just maybe some prosecutor would think he could get passt all that. It's also all about winning in court and prosecutors don't take on unwinnable cases and so even if they knew in their gut he was guilty, they wouldn't necessarily bring himm to trial or they would take years building a case hoping the circumstantial stuff would override the ring being found on a dead junkie.
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I wonder if she had lied about that. The police never mention anything about her being pregnant at any time, and I'm sure an autopsy would've shown it.
shareYou sound like you're angry that Chris didn't get caught. Seems like you missed the whole point of the movie.
And second Nola was most likely lying about the pregnancy. That's why she was freaking out about the vacation so much. The longer it took for Chris to tell Chloe, the sooner he would have realized that she wasn't actually pregnant.
What I was wondering myself was that her co-worker didn't say anything. It was implied that she knew that Chris had an affair with Nola. But again she probably didn't come forth with any new information for the police, cause Nola was lying about the pregnancy and only Chris "knew" about it.
Question (I'm ignorant on this): why would the cops do an autopsy? She was shot. Cause of death pretty clear, no? I can see them pulling the bullet out to analyze the caliber, but wouldn't that be it? Is it really standard procedure that they always do it?
shareHonestly, do you think Woody Allen deeply researched police investigations and forensics? Judging by the police characters and scenes, Allen wasn't exactly going for Hill Street Blues authenticity. The point of the movie was Chris Wilton got all the breaks while Nola didn't. Everything went against her--her failed relationship with Tom, her failed attempt to get in with the Hewitts, her failed acting career. Meanwhile, Chris succeeded in his endeavors with the Hewitts and attaining financial comfort.
To put it bluntly, it really sucked to be Nola! And it wasn't like she was any worse than Chris. Them are the breaks...is basically Allen's fatalistic message.
Beebal, true (whether you're on this board or not) He was just lucky throughout, lucky he met his wife, lucky her dad liked him, lucky in his career (he started to fail, but then got a new opportunity handled to him out of the blue, just by random chance), lucky his brother in law dumped Nola, so he could have an affair eventually, lucky he met Nola at the Tate gallery. His murder plans had so many holes, shown throughout the amateurish execution, he should've been found out immediately, but he was just plain old randomly lucky. Conversely, Nola was just continuously unlucky after she met him.
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