If I was the bank robber...
I would have taken the policeman's gun when he told him to get on the ground because you knew he was going to shoot at the vehicle. Of course, taking the gun would have changed the story.
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It would be better to make him to toss it a few feet away on the ground. I wouldn't go messing with his gun while holding him at gunpoint. That's how I usually do it anyway j/k.
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i would have tossed his gun a few meters away too. lol
shareI think the point of it all was first, Tamara was not meant to be there, second, Alex had been under the assumption since the idea entered his head that it was all going to go without any problems, quick in, easy out. He loved her more than he cared about the money, and I think he panicked in the moment, did the first thing that came to him, jumped in the car and took off probably not expecting the much resistance at all or if so, perhaps something a little more subtle so-to-speak.
And of course, it's a movie!! I often find myself stating "why, why, why; go here, do this, do that"... knowing full well it's a movie!! But I guess that's a good sign, it shows we're invested in it and it must have our attention! :)
~ "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." ~ Erich Fromm
Great point, IT'S A MOVIE! And most people aren't bank robbers
shareEvery time somebody complains about an element like this in a movie, I want them to go look up real life stories of criminals doing things far dumber. But I guess it's easier to level a simple complaint against a mild implausibility than to look at a film's themes and artistry. Hitchcock called these kind of viewers "the plausibles", and they're only slightly less tedious than the people who text during a movie.
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" Hitchcock called these kind of viewers "the plausibles", and they're only slightly less tedious than the people who text during a movie."
I understand a lot of things, but why people text during a movie they've paid quite a bit of money to see (or parent's money), is one I haven't figured out yet. I don't even go to the loo while watching a movie as I know no matter when or how far into the movie I choose to go, something big will happen. :)
Thanks for the Hitchock trivia too!!
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I think he should have just gone back to the car and left without engaging the policeman in a confrontation. He didn't look outwardly incriminating.
But, I understand that people don't make the best decisions in the heat of the moment, and that's the tragedy.
I was surprised he didn't take the gun, since his was not loaded, as he said to the girl prior to the robbery.
What really surprised me was the cop shooting at the getaway car. By American standards I don't think the police would shoot at a fleeing car that way; too easy to kill a bystander or have a stray go through the walls of the nearby buildings, not to mention the fact that the officer's life was not in danger and shooting tires on a moving car with a handgun is a bit of a waste of time & ammo.
I don't know, but I want to guess that the European police are even less trigger-happy than the American police, especially over a property crime.
The robber's best move would to have been just walked up, apologized for parking where he shouldn't have and driving away.
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I don't know, but I want to guess that the European police are even less trigger-happy than the American police, especially over a property crime.
At the time, the policeman didn't think of it as a property crime. He was responding to a masked man pointing a gun at him. He didn't find out about the bank robbery until after the car sped away. share
I think you would find yourself a bit surprised in the response of a police officer in the U.S. if you were to pull a gun on them after you robbed a bank and ordered him to the ground and then drove away with his gun still on him.
Personally I would have been (at the moment of meeting) more concerned with his radio and him calling in the make/model of my vehicle and which way I headed than the gun. The entire belt should have came off and went with the vehicle.
Exactly my thoughts. That was incredibly stupid. The only halfway reasonable explanation would have been that Tamara probably would have been angry if he was carrying a loaded gun with which he should shoot people and that he did not want to fuel an argument.
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