Triviality of trivial

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2014)

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CAUTION Contains many spoilers!
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Acting, directing and many other technical aspects are terrific, so why I disliked this movie?
I love reading book and essays about real life crime. It is surprising how trivial they are, how chaotic investigating can be and how large the amount of mistakes can be. That is how reality can be and actually is.
I would have appreciated no prologue where viewers are "phoned" about who will be the sacrificial lamb in the end. It was disappointing to see how plot has been devastated trying to fit jigsaw puzzle pieces!
Detectives are irritating, annoying: the black one follows his stupid clue about Dave, as Dave's wife does, just to create the plot absurd assumption that Dave is guilty. He is questioned by the police in the police station, where he asks for a Sprite and when his old friend moves to take it for him he is called the "good" cop and ridiculed by Dave. In that precise moment I understood that Dave was the lamb to sacrifice: he deeply deserved that destiny. He is also seen by Jimmy's "friends" and Jimmy automatically concludes that Dave is guilty. Why? Because Dave was abused? Dave is not a rapist, he is not a killer. Why he is suspected? A murder must have a motive.
Real life detectives suspect about family, friends.
Two policemen who boast of being much better of the local cops: none of them listens to the recording of the 911 call!!! I am not an expert but from my little experience as a newspaper reader, most of the occasional murderers call the emergency by themselves...
And in the end the masterpiece of stupidity: Jimmy has done a tragic mistake and his wife calls him the King (because in this way she was a queen? a queen of those sleazy alleys?) The best for Jimmy would have been to kill himself, just to stop his painful, stupid and useless life: it would have been an act of grace from the scriptwriters...
4/10