1. Dobby, who was later dismembered, made a plea bargain with Nick, accusing his accomplice as the main offender and accusing him of homicide and rape. Since the two committed the crime together, why did Nick enter into a prosecution bargain with Dobby, knowing that Dobby is the principal culprit, but ignore the accomplices? Because Sheldon's coma confession cannot be used as testimony, the two criminals are witnesses to each other. Since this is the prerequisite, why can't the accomplices testify against Dobby? Moreover, the accomplice did not confess his guilt from beginning to end, until he was dying, he still used his wronged eyes to show how unstoppable he was. This shows that as long as someone testifies, the person accused of confessing guilt or not will have to die. Then why can't he be an accessory to testify to Dobby? Of course, if all of this is achieved, there will be no subsequent story, but this is a very hard injury, which makes me feel that the director is completely trying to justify himself and find a gimmick to explain why Dobby was dismembered later. In a word, there are more than guilty deaths.
2. The letter written by the sacrificed Lisa's boyfriend Chester to Nick, suddenly turned him from a completely hopeless situation and took the initiative. This may not be too ridiculous. Sheldon, who is so awesome that the director created, will sell his nest because of the information on the few real estates? No wonder a lot of people suspect that this suddenly-appearing Chester is Sheldon himself. But unfortunately, this is the director's fault.
End of the unhappy grievances. Talk about feelings.
This film makes me very uncomfortable. It does not advertise any heroes at all. From beginning to end, it is about a corrupt and fragile judicial system, and everyone around it.
Nick is a loyal defender of this system. He cannot simply be defined as a good person or a bad person. It is true that he is an individual with the most basic conscience and moral sense, but the most important thing is that he is a person living in this system. Even if he knew something was wrong, he had to act accordingly. After all, this system is defended by people like him.
Sheldon emerged as a challenger and disruptor of a system. The director is showing why Shelton has changed from a "law-abiding citizen" to a subversive system. He tells a tragic story: his wife and daughter were raped and killed, but the real murderer was at large. Any viewer who sees this scene at the beginning of the film will be filled with outrage and believe that this is a revenge film.
But in fact, all this is just to explain why Shelton has become such a challenger to such an ancient judicial system that has lasted for hundreds of years, and even used such an extreme way to prove that this system is purely a bullshit. (If there is no good reason to persuade the audience to stand on Sheldon's side, it is difficult to explain why one person is so good to destroy the system that survives for N years. And at the cost of dozens of people's lives)
As the Avengers , His mission was over after sawing Dobby. The rest is that he, as a disruptor, challenged the entire bullshit system. Because he believes that the real behind-the-scenes to prevent his wife and daughter from complaining of grievances is this system and all the law enforcers. So he told Nick, "You haven't understood until now? If I want revenge, I have ten years, and I don't have to wait until now."
System defender Nick became his opponent to challenge this system. He used his life to make deals with Nick time and time again, overturning the established thinking of Nick and other law enforcement officials time and time again.
He played with all the law enforcers and their beliefs for survival like a cat and a mouse. Nick's performance here is particularly obvious. Lisa, who had been with him for ten years, was confused: "I don't know if something I insist on believing is right, but I will always follow you." (To the effect). Then the lovely Lisa was over.
Then at the funeral of Lisa and others, another colleague also put forward this idea: Is this all right? Nick immediately said: We are right. He can't give up this idea, or he will definitely collapse. After all, for this belief, dozens of people were killed or injured.
Sheldon has been "instigating" Nick to make a deal with him from start to finish: Even if he killed everyone, Nick had no evidence to prove that he killed him, and in the end he could only be released. Including him in the courtroom suddenly seemingly out of control yelling at the judge. In fact, he didn't want to get out of prison. One thing he wanted to do was to attack the shield of the son with the spear of the son. Challenge this bullshit judicial system. So I have reason to believe that even if Nick keeps the delivery time at 1 o'clock, or really releases Shelton at 6 o'clock. He will also kill people to show that this "trading" system is unreliable for murderers.
So when Nick refused to trade with him for the last time, he seemed very relaxed and relieved: you finally learned. Here I think his comfort is not because he successfully "educated" Nick. But Nick’s phrase "I will not deal with murderers again" shows that his insistence on using prosecution bargaining to increase the conviction rate is wrong. So in the end, although Nick killed Sheldon, he was actually the loser. The fact that the belief he insisted on was bloodied by Shelton proved to be contradictory, even bullshit.
And why did Shelton dial that number at the end? Quite simply, he not only wants to destroy this system, but also kills all the loyal defenders of this system (don’t forget how the black female mayor screamed out to make people in the city feel that their judicial system is safe. It is reliable, and the people cannot lose trust in them. In fact, the irony is that it is precisely this system of "preventing the people from losing trust" that has sent the people into such a state of being a soldier.) For him, all this It is also a belief. What supports this belief in the end is to destroy all of this. So after he successfully proved that Nick's belief is bullshit, he will continue to win the final victory. Unfortunately, he failed in the end, but he failed at most. It's not a loser. If he does not die, it is the biggest irony of this system-even if he kills the mayor and everyone, there is "no evidence to prove that he is a murderer" and "he can only be acquitted if necessary."
The final intention of the director is that this battle is a dual battle of spirit and life. Some people are dead mentally, but they are still alive, and some people’s bodies are blown to powder, but he has proved it by his extreme behavior. His belief: how unreliable and insecure the justice system of this sick bullshit is. Those law enforcement officers who deal with murderers are all trying to get things done with tigers.
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