Runester

The gf and I went to the movies this weekend and saw Fracture. It was a good movie, but what impressed me was that it was an old fashioned closed-room mystery. The kind that Agatha Christy wrote, or something like the movie Dial M for Murder. These stories were solved by deductive reasoning and a little imagination and not by finding the one piece of forensic evidense that seals the case. In Fracture, there is never any doubt who commits the act or why or how. All of the mystery, is in how he manipulates events to get away from it and how the young lawyer from the district attorney’s office tries to prove it. After all, the law isn’t about what happens but what can be proved in a court of law, to have happened.

It’s nice to sit through a ‘thinking’ movie that is more about performance and personality and a devilishly clever killer then chase scenes or the like.