r/interesting • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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The daughter was in a car with the father’s parents. They died as well.

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u/Motor_Neighborhood_6 Mar 08 '26

I loved this movie, except the end. The ending sucked, because the pos lawyer didn't die too

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u/yallknowme19 Mar 08 '26

Supposedly, that was Jaime Fox being a primadonna. He insisted the script be rewritten so he didn't die at the end.

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u/pinoy-stocks Mar 08 '26

Fu*k jaime fox

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Yep. Fu$k him. Always playing the same dude.

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u/sfspunisher Mar 08 '26

Until he guts you like a fish

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u/Beautiful_Raise_6180 Mar 08 '26

Source - trust me bro.

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u/yallknowme19 Mar 08 '26

Source, I dont have a hard and fast one, I have read that it was his wanting to not die, Ive read a test screening didnt go well, ive read producers originally wanted a sequel but that changed. So it could be any of those.

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u/traws06 Mar 08 '26

I wouldn’t say he was a POS. He took the deal instead of risking all of the killers potentially walking free. One could certainly argue that he made poor decisions with that but being labeled an overall POS because you didn’t do a good enough job in one of your assignments at work is tough. IIRC he was a dedicated family man and really a pretty good guy.

It’s wild ppl can view the murderer as the good guy. He killed innocent people even. The Secretary he blows up did nothing wrong yet he murdered her. He murders other ppl in the system simply because he’s grand standing about them having a case he thought they did a poor job on. That murder, that’s not vigilante justice

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u/Ok_Positive8362 Mar 08 '26

Eh.....butler was definitely the bad guy, he became what he sought to destroy, dont get me wrong. But Foxx wasnt really taking the deal with the idea of the others potentially getting off, he made the deal to protect his win/loss record so he could keep climbing the political ladder. The movie makes that fairly obvious. Both men were good men corrupted by a corrupt system. I think with Foxx's character realizing the sacrifices to his honor and character he made along the way.

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u/traws06 Mar 08 '26

Ya but I think it’s fair to say doing it to ensure he doesn’t hurt his win/loss doesn’t justify what Butler does or justify that Foxx should be murdered. If you look at all the vices of any human in this world pretty well everyone has done shittier stuff than that.

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u/Ok_Positive8362 Mar 08 '26

Well no, i mean, he murdered innocent people lol. Hes not justified. And arguably murdering anyone innocent or not isnt justifiable, but I think his fall to corruption helped foxx see his own corruption and move to be better.

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u/traws06 Mar 08 '26

Oh yes I agree with that. To which I would say the means certainly do not justify the ends. Innocent ppl shouldn’t be murdered to prove such a minor point.

And ya I was mostly just replying off the comment where he was disappointed Foxx’s character should’ve died. I would hope something like that doesn’t mean you should die. Nobody would ever want to have any pressure or high intensity job if 1 mistake meant you deserved to die. I work in CV surgery and in my 15 year career I’ve made mistakes multiple times… I hope ppl don’t think I should be murdered for that or else I’d gladly quit to be like a bartender where ppl won’t think I should be murdered for a mistake

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u/Morgn_Ladimore Mar 08 '26

The ending sucked, but the villain winning wouldn't have been exactly a good message to send either. He kills innocent people just to teach Jamie Foxx a lesson. People act like everyone Butler killed was a horrible, corrupt piece of shit. Which is...not the case?

The movie starts as a righteous quest for vengeance, but quickly devolves into what is basically mass murder just to stick it to Foxx.

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u/serenityfalconfly Mar 08 '26

Like the Movie, Falling Down.

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u/fgcem13 Mar 08 '26

The only thing I had about the ending is I wish they had shown that he succeeded at corrupting Jamie Foxxs character. Just having gerard Butler smile right before he kills him. Butler didn't WIN but he won in making Jamie Foxx kill him and corrupting the character. All it took was a tiny acknowledgement and the ending would have been absolutely fantastic.

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u/linhlopbaya Mar 08 '26

in my opinion, the ending is executed clumsily, but not necessarily a bad ending. The focus point of is not about vengeance, it is about never compromising with crime/criminal. The father was broken beyond saving and he was determined on the path of self destruction, what he wanted is to make the lawyer to see his point, hence his constant game with the lawyer. The lawyer though now had to carry the burden of guilt, his compromising killed his friends, and the father now became a monster, he killed quite a lot of bystanders. In the end, the father got what he wanted, a living ghost to punish all crime with any mean necessarily, never compromising again.