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Great up to the hour mark (SPOILERS)

posted 16 years ago by djsnafu23
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I was blown away by the first hour of this film- it had ambigous characters, the heroin was completyely unsympathetic, but not cartoonish, even showed remorse at the very end. Great up to the quick shot of the boomerang after his "death", shambolic after wards. I think Keitel's actions and the hostage taking of the girl were untrue to his character, and just helped resolve this in a very clean, idiotic way.

Had the film concentrated more on the guilt for the apparent murder of an innocent man in the name of "love", and her inability to enjoy the prize f her machinations, it would be endlessly more fascinating. Also, the tiny hints that he may have been the killer (his strange reaciton to being given the red top ("why are you giving me THIS top?") would have been interesting to toy with.

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[–] Jeremy_X 14 years ago

I concur. They should've ended the film there and made his death permanent and put bigger detail in the first act.

[–] Thomas Dunson 14 years ago

Ditto.

But if you really want him to survive (bad idea, but anyway), at least spare us the last twist of him actually being the murderer. That's what undid it for good. It was so ludicrous, winning the lottery twice in a row would have been more likely. If you really want such an ending you'd have to restructure the whole plot and set in an environment / a milieu where the likelihood of such a coincidence coming to pass is much, much higher, maybe even change the killer's profession. But whatever you do, you certainly DON'T pick the New York City cab driver scene – it seemed almost like they were shooting for the least likely option out there, and they might very well have gotten it...

(by the way, I don't agree that it was "great up to the hour mark", but had it ended without him surviving or being the killer, it would've at least been halfway – or more like "quarterway" – decent, in my book)

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[–] pendergast7 13 years ago

Yup. My thoughts exactly.

[–] chrisrocknroll 13 years ago

Yeah, the coincidence was just too much. I really think they wanted the viewer to believe he was the killer, but it was just too unlikely that she randomly would happen to pick the one guy that deserves what she's about to do. Also, if he is the killer, does that mean he was planning to murder her all along? And, backing up to the start, is the fact that Vincent saw a cab drive by on his way home in the beginning really concrete evidence that the driver was the murderer? Couldn't the killer have driven the other direction or been on foot? I like that the cop was giving all of Vincents recollections from passing another vehicle at 65 mph as though they were solid evidence.

I also didn't appreciate the front page newspaper spread with the huge headline LOCAL CABBIE FOUND DEAD and the graphic crime scene photo therein. Why didn't the camera just zoom in on the article so that we could see something like "suspected of murder. Whoever killed him must really love their neighbor and they can live happily from here on out."

I would not recommend this movie.

[–] DenLilleHavfrue85 13 years ago

"And, backing up to the start, is the fact that Vincent saw a cab drive by on his way home in the beginning really concrete evidence that the driver was the murderer? Couldn't the killer have driven the other direction or been on foot?"

That bothered me too. And then Vincent just goes to town "killing" him based on this three year old circumstancial evidence.

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[–] whitetigerzone 11 years ago

But after Vincent opens up to Alice he tells her the story: his wife, he apparently later found out thru the police, had gone into Manhattan, to Chinatown to buy him the dog. He wondered at first how the little dog had come into his house. She had missed the last train and had taken a cab home. That was the last anyone had seen her, so it was thus very likely that she had been murdered by the cab driver he saw driving back toward the city away from his house. I had been wondering how, as he lived in a large house in a rural area, he had decided that the killer was specifically a New York City cab driver, but this scene cleared that up.

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