>
>
>The ending to THE POSTMAN is indeed a
>> humorous irony. They finally quit their
selfish
>> scheming and actually love one another, and all
of a
>> sudden Cora is dead and Frank is condemned to
death
>> for a murder he did not commit. You gotta love
it!
>
I think the part about Frank's romance with the lady with the
pet leopard is funny, but as for the ending, it is ironic,
yes, and yet corroded with the hard reality of what passes
for justice. Frank and Cora were judged innocent of killing
Nick because of the private contest between the two lawyers.
Frank's manipulated the truth more
effectively than his opponent. But for Cora's
accidental death, at the point where Frank would never have
harmed her, the fiction of a down-and-outer's greed for money
overcoming any other emotion convinced the same sort of jury
that bought the lawyer's sophistry in the first instance.
After al, what would any of those twelve good men and true
have done? Frank and Cora heroically break thru the greed,
suspicion, self-hate, entitlement, and racism that
characterize their America. That doesn't excuse their crime.
But their eyes are finally open. Then something sick and part
of the very air they breathe destroys them. It's
Chinatown.
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