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I'm pretty sure him "getting out" was meant as a daydream scene. The color grading changed to a cooler color temperature and it matched an earlier daydream scene. However, the director has said that people can interpret the ending however they like.
As for the scentencing... just because they said he would be eligible for parole in 5 years does not mean that he would get parole in 5 years. That would be heavily dependent on many factors, including his behavior while in prison.
The sentence also depends on what he was charged with and how good his lawyers are. I think the character witnesses were important in establishing that Baby himself did not kill any of those officers or innocent bystanders. It was also important that he was manipulated, blackmailed and forced into the situation. Most trials have two phases. One phase is for conviction and the second is for sentencing. During the sentencing phase, character witnesses, motivation, and personal circumstances come into play.
With a good lawyer, I could see them getting his charge reduced to voluntary manslaughter without malice aforethought, which would carry a sentence of between 3 and 11 years in the state of California. A really, really good lawyer with a cooperative client, might be able to convince the state to go for involuntary manslaughter. That would require proving that Baby was essentially blackmailed into this. "Duress" is an affirmative defense which is generally defined as "Unlawful pressure exerted upon a person to coerce that person to perform an act that he or she ordinarily would not perform." Under common law, this could absolve all crimes except murder.
None of this is guaranteed; every case is different. But, I imagine Baby's case would be highly publicized, would draw the attention of large law firms looking to make a name for themselves and his side of the story would be spread out across the 24-hour news.
Either way, I don't think the sentence is beyond the stretch of the imagination.
Xenopharb is right, though. You don't seem to understand Rotten Tomatoes, nor do you understand how ludicrous it is to assume that Baby Driver found a way to contact and bribe every professional reviewer and every amateur blogger. All the while, movies with six times the budget of Baby Driver, films like Transformers or The Mummy, were unable to get in touch with any of these easily bribed reviewers.
Your entire hypothesis is flawed.
Forum users aren't claiming to be reviewers, though.
That's a good point. I noticed that, too. I even wondered allowed if the age of consent for tattoos was lower in some states than others?
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