But at the very end, when he realizes he overlooked one legal loophole-which Beachum now intends to exploit-he shows genuine fear for the first time. Crawford spends the entire film two steps ahead of the police and prosecutors, so sure of his own machinations that he barely pays attention at his own trial.The case destroys his new career with the law firm before it can start, leaving Beachum completely humbled. He takes on Crawford's case rather carelessly, convinced that it's an open-and-shut case with ironclad evidence-so he's taken completely by surprise when all the evidence gets yanked out from under him. Beachum is riding high on life, convinced he can do no wrong as he prepares to leave the District Attorney's office for a job with a prestigious law firm.He drives to the hospital at full speed, but he arrives just too late to save her. As Crawford is going to remove his wife Jennifer's life support, Beachum receives a court order barring Crawford to do so. Beachum sees his life crash around him due to his own hubris and a murderer walks free, as he desperately tries to find another way to put Crawford behind bars. On top of that, the murder weapon turns out to be useless due to a clever switcheroo that Crawford performed during the arrest. However, Crawford elects to represent himself at his own trial, and soon presents evidence which reveals that the cop who arrested and interrogated Crawford was screwing his wife behind his back, making Crawford's signed confession inadmissable in court as fruit of the poisonous tree since it was obtained under duress. When the case is presented to deputy district attorney William Beachum (Gosling), who is about to leave his job as a public prosecutor for a high-profile post at a respected legal firm, the case looks like a clear slam-and-dunk with a murder weapon and a signed confession, and the confident Beachum barely investigates the case. The wife survives but remains in a coma, while Crawford is charged with attempted murder. He orchestrates her murder and arranges to be arrested by the same cop whom his wife was having an affair with. Ted Crawford (Hopkins) is a brilliant and wealthy aeronautical engineer who discovers that his wife, Jennifer, is having an affair. Indrukwekkende cinema, die blijft nazinderen.Fracture" is a 2007 thriller, directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. Een aanrader voor wie geïnteresseerd is in misdaadfilms die je aan het denken zetten en die je op het puntje van je stoel doen zitten tot de laatste minuten. Het plot van de rechtszaak is boeiend en realistisch. Hopkins weet dit, natuurlijk, en speelt in op zijn ijdelheid.ĭe film beklijft, de regie is rijk aan suspense. Het probleem is dat het moelijker is dan hij dacht en hij niet gewend is om te verliezen. Gosling alias Willy Beachum is een jonge, ambitieuze advocaat die hoger op de ladder wil geraken en hem wil veroordelen. Hopkins alias Ted Crawford is een psychopathische echtgenoot die ontdekt dat zijn vrouw een affaire heeft, haar neerschiet, dezelfde nacht bekent en dan de zaken zo laat regelen dat het bijna onmogelijk is om hem te veroordelen. Wat een genot om die twee een spelletje met elkaar te zien spelen - met de kijker erbij. Een pareltje van een intellectueel schaakspel tussen Anthony Hopkins en Ryan Gosling waar ik echt heb van genoten.
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