In this movie, in some weird way, the bending of reality and truth is kind of relevant to the times we live in. Ray doesn't have a solid grip on reality, so I'm wondering if he'll still see that as the corrupt world trying to gaslight him. Or someone will ask about the live (or maybe dying and on the way to death) patient in the backseat, and the two dead bodies in the trunk. You have to imagine the police will show up at some point. At the beginning of the movie, he’s browbeaten and down. He wants to be a father and husband who did the right thing. He’s just a guy that wants to be a good dad. I find the ending to be sad and tragic, but it’s also poignant, too. Maybe there’s a little bit of that going on here. We just want to gloss them over and put them aside. We all do that to a certain degree in our lives. Depending on how bleak of an outlook you have on things, you can say better that he live in self-delusion, which is better than him living in reality. That’s the question at the end of the movie. I wonder if he will wake up to the truth or not. The director talked about the question Fractured leaves fans with at the end of the movie: In the script, it ends with, ‘Ray drives off into the sunset with his family.’ But I wanted to add a little of (what you just said) ambiguity for his character. ‘I did it! I saved them from the bad guys at the hospital.’ But then we kept it rolling, and in the last frames, you start to see his face fall, like it just dawned on him. It’s a sense of accomplishment and being a hero. The last frame of the movie is a close up of Ray’s face after he’s just sung a song to his child in the backseat and his wife. While at Fantastic Fest, director Brad Anderson - who previously directed The Machinist, Session 9, and Beirut - talked to Fresh Fiction about the ending and the choice of that final shot. But then his face gets a darker look for the last frame - a screenshot of that look is posted in the photo above.įractured premiered at Fantastic Fest in September before its October 11 debut on Netflix. Will the lure of power and a love affair with a sexy, ambitious attorney (Rosamund Pike) at his new firm overpower Willy's fierce drive to win, or worse, quash his code of ethics? In a tense dual of intellect and strategy, Crawford and Willy both learn that a "fracture" can be found in every ostensibly perfect facade.The end shot of Fractured initially shows a closeup of Ray smiling, after looking through the rear-view mirror and seeing his imagined wife smile at him and say let's go home. Crawford is immediately arrested and arraigned after confessing - a seemingly slam-dunk case for hot shot assistant district attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), who has one foot out the door of the District Attorney's (David Strathairn) office on his way to a lucrative job in high-stakes coporate law.īut nothing is as simple as it seems, including this case. Although Jennifer was shot at point blank range, Nunally realizes she isn't dead. Surprisingly Crawford readily admits to shooting his wife, but Nunally is too stunned to play close attention when he recognizes his lover, whose true identity he never knew, lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Among the cops arriving at the crime scene is hostage negotiator Detective Rob Nunally ( Billy Burke), the only officer permitted entry to the house. When Ted Crawford ( Anthony Hopkins) discovers that his beautiful younger wife, Jennifer ( Embeth Davidtz), is having an affair, he plans her murder.the perfect murder.
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