Review of Civic Duty

Just saw this at the Tribeca Film Festival. It is very good. There was a problem with the ending. The film ends emotionally when the man shoots his wife but there is another scene. In that scene you are lead to doubt that the middle eastern type is really innocent. The director, or whoever, it was at the screening, said that you are supposed to see that as a product of the psychosis of the main character. All this is hard to follow without going into more detail if you haven't seen the movie. But I don't want to go into more detail and spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen the movie. Anyway, there is no point to that last scene-if to show that the guy is crazy-that is already known-if to show that middle eastern type really is guilty, that plot twist is too clever and without justification. The only one I can think of is that without that scene, the movie could be seen as too left wing-paranoid accountant unjustly accuses middle eastern guy-and would not be accepted for distribution ? They should have left that ending out and gone back to the relationship with the wife and given her more dialog at the end before he kills her. The interesting thing is her love for him even though he is apparently chronically intermittently paranoid.