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Happy end but unrealistic - spoiler

posted 9 years ago by chris12345678
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I like a happy end as much as anybody but this one was hard to swallow. In Europe criminals have more rights than the victims and the government severely punishes those who harm them. The European law prosecutes and punishes those who dare oppose and hurt an attacker with savage severity. There is a very slim chance the policeman would let her go if he knew the full extent of what was done to her out of pity and revulsion towards the assailants, risking losing his job. That's very, very unlikely. The most likely outcome is she gets life in prison for cheating the "justice system" and lawyers out of a good income. Therefore - a good ending but fit for a fable, not the sad reality that surrounds us.

[–] drakescake333 8 years ago

It's a movie. We're supposed to suspend belief. And that's the formula for revenge films: most of the time the victim gets away with it (though - *spoiler alert* - by the third installment, the victim does NOT get away with it). My guess is that the cop felt guilty for not really helping her or believing her when she first went to help him - and then when he saw the woman he THOUGHT was going to help her and realizing things obviously got worse after that - he felt partly responsible for what happened to those attackers afterward. I think that's the reason they threw the priest character into the mix - at that point it's a morality tale.

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[–] whitespirit26 8 years ago

Nothing wrong or entirely unrealistic about a cop letting a woman who was not only brutalized, but possibly killing partly in self-defense, go free without arrest. Not all law enforcement officers are as big bitches as the female ice-stick officer in the third film. Even in the third film, though (MORE SPOILERS), it's ok that Angela did not "get away with it." She still killed two horrid men and got a third one killed too, only getting caught when she went crazy and tried to kill two innocent men who proved beyond a doubt they were no rapists. She lost it, and frankly, I don't agree with how the first two men died. It doesn't have to do with whether they deserved it; you can't do certain things and retain your humanity. She lost it.