During the war, would they really expect Brad Pitt to kill his wife if she was found to be a spy, or was this just added for dramatic effect ? Seems to me like a very dumb rule that's just asking for trouble.
shareIm sure its just hollyweird nonsense. In real life, especially wartime, both of them would have been tortured for more information on the network and to give up names.
sharehighly doubt it.... that's just barbaric and asides.... a trial would be needed first.
shareI am sure that was not the actual policy since that would have served absolutely no purpose. I think the scriptwriters had confused this film with other genres involving gang wars and super assassins, where a character was often asked to kill some random guy or even someone close to him to prove his "loyalty".
The ending was quite ridiculous anyway. How was Max able to get off with no consequence at all after what he did and not being arrested and tried for treason? It was hilarious that his friend Frank simply told his men to report to the authorities that Max had executed his wife, adding "and that's an order"! Wasn't it obvious that he was trying to steal the plane and escape that that was witnessed by like a hundred people? Seriously, none of them would talk and perhaps get Frank into big trouble too?
yup, the ending did go a little off the rails. I still enjoyed the movie for the most part though.
shareIt was ridiculous in multiple ways.
* Ridiculous for Pitt to be arguing with Frank that "she was just doing it because they were threatening Anna". Well, yes, but why was she with him in the first place?? She was placed with him as a spy, to intentionally be brought back with him to England. She was spying on him for the year _before_ Anna was born, too.
* Ridiculous that Pitt "rolls up" the circuit on his own. He kills 2 german spies! Who couldve been interrogated for information and/or used to feed back garbage information back to the Germans. They were very, very valuable ALIVE. It almost makes Pitt look like Pitt is guilty, because (if he were) he could be killing them so they couldnt betray Pitt. (Albeit, we know Pitt is of course not a spy.)
* Ridiculous that he's trying to escape in the first place. Where are they going to go in that plane, as a deserter, in wartime Britain, with no money, on the run, with a baby? Just deserting could get you the death penalty. Are they going to occupied France?? There's just nowhere to run to.
* And, again, the "husband must shoot wife" scenario. Just a ridiculous premise. One I've never heard of in a WW2 movie (for a good reason, because its so unbelievable, farcical, and unnecessary).
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I was waiting for all of them to do a song and dance at the end.
Ridiculous.
The screenwriter says that he got the idea for the movie from just such a case he was told about.
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