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My problem with the ending

posted 9 years ago by Hiphophippie23
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You don't end up in the back of a police car in hand cuffs just for shouting "I gave the judge forged documents!!" or whatever the exact comments Nash yelled at the end to diffuse the situation. Ha! It reminds me of the episode of The Office where Steve Carell shouts "I Declare Bankruptcy!!!!", as if that's all it takes.

For starters, the average cop knows very little about white collar crimes and Real Estate law in general. Even if the cops on the scene drove straight to the court house and picked up that case file, they wouldn't have the slightest clue what they were looking for. It's all complete hearsay at that point! It's similar to if you shouted "I dealt lots of crack" in front of an officer. He might search you and/or your car, but you wouldn't be in cuffs on the way to the station. The final scene just didn't work at all for me and detracts from the movie as a whole.

What makes the end even less satisfying, is that even if there was an officer on the scene (why would there be?) who specializes in those type of cases, Nash wouldn't stand a chance in court against against a giant like Carver. His lawyers would tear that case to shreds.

[–] Steamboy 9 years ago

He wasn't arrested by the "average cop", they looked like feds. The question is, what were they doing at the scene? Perhaps they were already investigating Carver? Some explanations would have been welcome.

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[–] typo_3000 9 years ago

yes that was what i found odd. was unsure where they came from

[–] pp312 9 years ago

I wasn't aware he was arrested at all. He simply made a statement/confession that he forged a court document and was taken away to be further questioned, as you'd expect. The only oddity was that plain clothes detectives were suddenly on the scene when there was no evidence of their presence beforehand. It would have been better had he simply been taken away by uniformed cops.

[–] slidell333 9 years ago

If the shoe was on the other foot, all those people HE evicted would have done the same thing to him. Taken the work, taken the job...and said "sorry bud." The guy offered him a damn good job, a way to get his house back and more, and he suddenly gets a conscience. Grow up. What did that ultimately do? What? The way his mom acted was beyond stupid and honestly, unbelievable. Nobody living in a motel is going to leave a nice house because their son now works for the guy that originally evicted them. I mean grow UP! You have a chance to move from the screwed or the ones doing the screwing and you suddenly feel obligated to stand up for some guy that in the real world would stab you in the back.

And The OP posted I doubt the cops would have arrested Nash on the spot. These are civil matters. For all they know he was saying that to diffuse the situation. Yes, falsifying documents is a criminal crime but beat cops wouldn't have known what the F to do in that situation...

[–] Hiphophippie23 9 years ago

Completely agree with you.

[–] slidell333 9 years ago

That guy he stuck up for...if the roles were reversed, would have kicked him out of his house and signed to paperwork to do so. He wouldn't have given a ratt's a$$ about him or his mom and kid. It's called reality. I've seen it and lived it. And the guy was eventually going to end up losing his house sooner or later. I've been there....when you're not paying on your mortgage...I don't care what paperwork you file, unless you get the loan modified, you're going to have to leave sooner or later. So what did his actions do? Just screwed himself over, that's what. As someone who lost a house, it was like the message of the film was we should just let everyone not paying on their homes keep them. Don't shoot the messengers. I mean, they're not paying on their homes...what do they expect? The message of the film was lost on me...shame, as it was a decent movie with a horrible ending.

[–] sean-van-der-smythe 9 years ago

Some people who behave according to a moral compass that points differently to yours. I'm not saying that her actions would be the most commonly-seen but they're not so far fetched. She's been hanging out in that hotel making friends with other evictees so obviously she's feeling some affiliation to them and hating the people that do the evicting.

[–] funkyfry 8 years ago

I think you're right -- I said in my comments on this film, it presents a somewhat nuanced view of the "villain" but Laura Dern's character is unrealisticly wholesome. She's like Jimmy Stewart in some old Capra movie. This film essentially relies on the idea that we believe people like that exist in real life. Some people will definitely do unreasonable things, but mostly out of pride. There's no hint of criticism in the film that Dern's character is too proud. It's a major weakness, overly sentimental.

As far as the fact that Nash was arrested, I have to assume as somebody said above that these were federal cops who were perhaps already investigating his boss, and so they moved in when they had the opportunity. Could they have explained that? Yes. Could they have explained what happened to Nash's wife? Yes. Did they need to explain either of those things? Not necessarily. But there certainly are some things that are just hanging out there in this film, for whatever reason.

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[–] LilyDaleLady 9 years ago

LOL, all you would have to say is "Officer, I told that crazy man the first thing I could come up with, to calm him down and get him to drop that rifle! It isn't true, of course."

And the whole thing would be over. The police do not prosecute white collar crime.

[–] johnstonadonis 8 years ago

It takes somebody with a simple mind to take the ending that way. That's why many films these days aren't as intelligent as they used to be.

The world sure has dumbed down.

[–] turkturk2013 8 years ago

The way I interpreted the ending was that Dennis had called the feds in advance and confessed to them what they had done. They were there to arrest Dennis and Rick Carver, or at the least, take them in for questioning. I do not recall seeing anyone dressed as "possibly could be feds" in any previous eviction scene, therefore, their presence in the ending scene made me think that they were there for a purpose. JMHO, but I am probably wrong! :)

[–] daveyh (641) 4 years ago

as earlier posters have stated, the men in suits may have been there because of shots being fired....you'd think they'd send a SWAT team instead...maybe they were there and off-camera?
Anyway, if we are going to accept that Nash was arrested on the spot after stating that he'd handed in a falsified document, then it wouldn't make sense that Greg Buel wouldn't have been arrested too seeing as he'd have been the one behind the forgery

[–] [deleted] a year ago

i am not sure why he was arrested at the end. no of those cops would have had knowledge pf all the paperwork.