1. Very early in the movie, we are told that Nick has been acquitted in the murder of two tourists. Katherine Martell rightly calls him out on this multiple times in the movie, accurately diagnosing that (like he physically abused Beth) he abused internal affairs.
  2. Catherine Martell spends the entire first act of the movie basically telling every member of the police force "I committed a murder. It's 100% clear that I did, but I have an alibi, and I'm going to get away with it." And she does get away with it. She gets away with it almost entirely by activating the psychosexual impulses of every man on the force — much like the psychosexual power fantasy of law enforcement itself.
  3. Repeatedly, Catherine Martell basically throws herself, all of her seductive power at Nick. She does this while acknowledging that that's what she wants to do.
  4. Nick, attempting to communicate Catherine's precise MO and the obviousness of her guilt is declared to be obsessed and delusional, as if he is fighting against a force of nature.
  5. Nick meets Gus — his "only real friend" that has stood by him for no explicable reason — in an all-american cowboy theme bar.
  6. She's just always telling him "I'm going to fuck you and then I'm going to kill you" but he just lets her get away with it — because she activated his psychosexual impulses.
  7. There's literally so many scenes when they're just driving like assholes!!!
  8. Yes he is just the worst fucking cop ever like every stereotype of a shitty corrupt cop
  9. When he is being questioned for Roxy's death, the murder of Nielsen is randomly brought up, even though his case was already thrown out.
  10. When he was being questioned about Nielsen's death he is literally a mirror of Catherine, just to really drive home that they are the same person
  11. "She seduces people, she manipulates people and she gets away with it!!" - Beth, about Catherine (Nick (who is a cop).
  12. This movie came out one year after the beating of Rodney King.
  • durbutter [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I wrote these notes up while watching it last night so it's a little messy, but yeah it's crazy to me how this movie is about a cop that very obviously commits murder — the tourists, Nielsen and Beth (four times!) And gets away with it and the only thing Americans remember it for 30 years later is the vagina scene.