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Couldn't Louis have just gone back in cooly and retrieved the memoirs?

posted 18 years ago by danielj_old999
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he could have pulled it off, he was that cool

[–] MrBigglesworth999 18 years ago

Ah yes, he could have. But that would have spoiled the black humour....

[–] old-bolingbroke 18 years ago

It was the perfect ending to the film and for all I know it was necessary at the time for 'morality' to be upheld.

But, we don't really know that Louis is going to be arrested (double jeopardy wouldn't apply here) and we can assure ourselves that he does do the sensible thing and retrieve his memoirs.

Just shows how the film has played with our own sense of right and wrong. This man is a serial killer, but we want him to get away with it!

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[–] grahamchris 18 years ago

Maybe he did or maybe they were retreived before he could get back to them. Make your own mind up, it's what you can call an ambiguous ending, I guess. Great film and Joan Greenwood is beautiful.

[–] motsivad 18 years ago

That's the wonderful thing about this ending.

You think, surely he can't get away with it now......But the wonderful thing about Louis is if anyone can wrangle their way out of such a mess it's him.

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[–] eeemail-1 18 years ago

Fantastic film, and I loved the ending. I think he is screwed. They just don't need to show it. It's written on his face.

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[–] TSFive 17 years ago

I would think all the gentlemanly fellows who may have retrieved his memoirs certainly wouldn't invade his privacy and read them. They'd just return them to him. Right?
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[–] Lechaise 17 years ago

I'd agree with that, I think if he just asked, the guards or whoever would just return to the cell and fetch the papers without reading them. They'd have to flick through a good few pages to find the first mentions of murder anyway, so even if they did look, he'd probably be ok.

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