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No stress, at least for me. I like to discuss with other people the inconsistencies of a movie and hear their opinions about it. Thanks for your help anyway.
Well, I thought that this space was to discuss our different theories about things like this...not just to call them "plot holes" and move on..
Very possibile. She didn't seem to have any problem in sleeping with any guy to get what she wanted. So, if she thought that sleeping with Nielsen would help her in reaching her goal, Nick's files, certainly she might have done it.
Yes, especially in Basic Instinct. The only good guy seemed to be Gus and look how he ended up..
Actually, the real asshole is Curran, not Nielsen. Curran killed two innocent bystanders while he was high on cocaine. He should have been removed by the force and his ass was saved through some dirty trick. Maybe Nielsen was a bit annoying but he was right about saying that Curran should have been fired.
Thanks man, I just try to use my logic as best as I can :-D Ok, let's see now this theory, which is quite interesting.
"Then nick has a convo with the policeman washing the car. The policeman tells nick that richard garners investigation revealed a love triangle, that garner's wife (beth) had a girlfriend.
BINGO.
Beth lied, she wasnt just with catherine in college in passing. They were having an affair and catherine shot beths husband."
Didn't Beth admit to Nick the affair that she had had with Catherine? If I remember correctly, she said to him that she was "experimenting". Of course, this happened after Nick's conversation with the policeman. He founds out, she spills the beans. Anyway, Beth doesn't seem to be in good terms with Catherine. Apparenty, she broke every tie with her after college because she considered her dangerous and a possible murderer. Why would she give Nick's psycho files to her? I don't know. I'm not fully convinced. Nielsen seemed to have a real and concrete motive to give those files to Catherine. He despised the guy and he considered him unfit to stay in the force. One more thing: didn't Catherine kill Nilsen? That could be explained because she didn't want to know who was her source. She didn't want to know that Nilsen gave her the file and so she killed him.
Well, consider this. Nilsen despised Curran. He considered him an unreliable cop who should have been removed from the force years ago because he had shot two people when he was high and drank. When he meets him at that bar, he mocks him calling him "shooter" and he reminds him the "incident" that costed the life of 2 people, if I recall correctly. Curran was saved with a crooked investigation, I guess, and Nilsen didn't swallow it. That's why he gave those files to Katherine. He wanted Curran out of the force. That's the best explaination that I can find considering the attitude of his character.
He's a man with code and honor and nevertheless crippled a prison guard, severely injured and killed other prison guards, not to mention the unprovoked killing of other inmates when he gets into the Redleaf prison. A man with code and honor doesn't harm people like that.
Yes, I got it. She has shady things in her past that she wanted to hide from her husband. Anyway, like I was telling in the previous comment, her husband seemed to be a connected guy. Some kind of guy who has the resources and means to find out if her wife assumed someone else's identity in order to cover up the misdeeds that she did in the first place.
I don't know and I was asking myself the same question. If you consider the fact that the screenwriter of this movie, Aaron Sorkin, publicly recanted his work is even more strange and odd. I think that the story is well written and the atmosphere of the movie is perfect for a noir. Maybe there are some incongruencies in the screenplay. For instance, a medical doctor who graduated from Harvard and who can't rent an apartment on his own. But if you consider the quality of the movies that are produced today, we are talking about small flaws.
Good point. I think you got it right. Anyway, the prequel idea should be definitely focused on the relationship between Julian and Leon. Leon is a central character in his "formation".