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The funny underlying message

posted 8 years ago by ines_silva
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So basically this guy figured out how to get away with murder by simply evading the police's methods to prove against him.

Nothing too elaborate. He just used what everyone knows to be what police uses as evidence, and manipulated that against them.
When Robert is trying to solve the case based on common sense arguments, one of the cops says it himself: that's not what they need, they need DNA and fingerprints, and handwriting (lol). That's how you prove anything. That's a big ass weakness if someone figures out how to evade that.

For me this movie was somehow a critique to the over objective, standardized and braindead guidelines based on which most of society works. Rules rule the world. I am not saying we should arrest someone based on circumstantial stuff, but behaving like machines certainly limits our full potential. I guess that's why mostly everyone involved in the case got so frustrated.
Great film :)

[–] Jehosaphet (1063) 7 years ago

I can see your point, but I don't think they were acting like machines as much as they were using the only real tools they had at their disposal back then, ie fingerprints and handwriting. All the evidence they had against Leigh was circumstantial...I mean, it was very convincing, but it was still circumstantial...and they needed more than that to arrest and bring charges against the guy.