Talk:Fracture (2007 film)

message: The article was once in :Category: American films  but was changed to :Category: New Zealand films by an anon.  What makes it a New Zealand film? --Mrwojo 21:10, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not seeing any justification, so it's been changed back. -- 16:06, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:New Zealand films]] 

message: I am a little confused. In the movie, Crawford switches the handguns at the Hotel where the affair was taking place.
Then, he used Nunaly's gun to shoot his wife.
When Nunaly and Crawford lay down their guns, Nunaly took back his own, which was fired, leaving Crawford with his own gun, which was unfired.
I think that the article has it wrong in saying that Nunaly accidently takes Crawford's gun when Crawford is arrested. However, if that were the case, Nunaly's gun, which was fired (having been already switched at the hotel) would have been the one left behind as evidence. --Allyn 04:51, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion about the gun 

message: moved here. a lot of implied meaning with no substantial backup
It is never revealed if he is found guilty or not, but heavily implied he is, given that the murder weapon has been found, and the bullet retrieved from his wife's head, along with the new confession. Also the fact Crawford confidently decides to represent himself back in the first trial, but for the second trial hires a team of lawyers shows that he thinks he will lose the new case.
Xaiver0510 (talk) 17:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research? 

message: Can anyone identify the sports car Crawford (Hopkins) drives?  Would this be appropriate to add to the Trivia section?  Hoof Hearted (talk) 16:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crawford's car 

message: I know this isn't a forum, but I thought these were some interesting plot holes and wondered if I missed anything:
#How did Crawford know that Nunally would be the officer to arrive at his house and the one sent in to negotiate?  If it had been any other cop, the registration would have led back to him, unraveling Crawford's entire plan.
#The film implies that Crawford sent Beachum the actual murder weapon (Nunally's gun) as a "gift" after he was acquitted.  If this is true, how could Crawford have come into possession of Nunally's gun after it was used in his suicide, and presumably sealed as evidence?
#In the end, won't the evidence just show that Nunally's gun was used to shoot Jennifer?  How would that prove that Crawford pulled the trigger (short of his confession to Beachum)?  It appeared Crawford wiped his prints off the gun before making the final switch, and in the theatrical ending they don't make it clear whether or not he reloaded Nunally's gun (thus leaving his fingerprints on the chambered bullets).  It still seems like weak evidence, not the slam dunk Beachum makes it out to be.  It might actually be better suited to implicate Nunally killing Jennifer in a fit of jealousy.
Hoof Hearted (talk) 18:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: IIRC, the planted bullet from the "third gun" that you describe was intended to match a gun planted on Crawford's property ("in the garage, taped under the lawnmower blade" or something like that).  That was to be the definitive proof that Crawford owned the murder weapon - but of course Beachum couldn't bring himself to use it because he wanted to figure out the mystery and beat Crawford fair and square.  As far as recovering a bullet from his wife's head, my guess is that other bullets were collected as evidence (Crawford's random shots after he killed his wife), but since they didn't actually cause her death they couldn't be used as proof of murder.  The one in her head ended up killing her, thus that was the fatal shot.  There was a chance that it was from a different gun - the one in Crawford's possession, so there was reason to examine it once she died.  However, as I questioned in point #3, had he not confessed it would have simply matched Nunally's gun (as all the other bullets) and not directly implicated Crawford.  And Crawford should have been smart enough to realize this.  Maybe I missed something.  Hoof Hearted (talk) 19:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot questions 

message: Can someone tell me what's NPOV about this article?--CyberGhostface (talk) 19:13, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality? 

message: The poem Beachum reads to Crawford's comatose wife is terrific. 
Does anyone recognize it? I have searched by phrase all my usual sources . 
Is it original for the script?
Is the script available?
Drtzkat (talk) 21:47, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this the poem about the Waiting place? I think they show a shot of Dr. Seuss' book "Oh the Places You'll Go" during this reading. (Yahoo! Answers link) Kzero22 (talk) 03:48, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a link for Seuss's text - http://schools.fsusd.k12.ca.us/schools/fhs/teacher/link/GigioC/Dreamweaver%202/Oh%20The%20Places%20you'll%20Go.htm -- Beardo (talk) 04:27, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poem in script 

message: I am interesed in the several toys or devices which Crawford has in his office and home, made from curved brass rods, which function as rails to carry rolling glass balls through complex patterns.  During his trial, he appeared to be drawing details from these devices on his notepad, or perhaps working out a design for a new one.  They show his obsessive precise temperament and are elegantly symbolic of his controlling personality, and of the complexities of the plot.  I would like to know more about these devices -- where to view them, how to build them, etc.  Janice Vian, Ph.D. (talk) 16:05, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is an article about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Ball_Sculpture  Razwww (talk) 18:18, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brass and glass engineered toys 

message: At the start of Hopkins' meetings with the prosecutor, Hopkins told him: "I will find your fault because you have one." 
What flaw will it be?
. AXRL (talk) 17:11, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The prosecutor's flaw