![]() The judge has granted Spacey unconditional bail until then. ![]() A further hearing will be held prior at some point earlier in 2023. ![]() Spacey’s trial, which will likely be held in the Old Bailey, is scheduled to begin Jand will last for three to four weeks. He entered an additional plea of “not guilty” to a charge of “causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.” In an interview with Deadline, Gyllenhaal describes the end of the movie as ““fantasy, what we hope and what we wish for.Kevin Spacey appeared today at London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court where the actor pleaded “not guilty” to four charges of sexually assaulting three men. Gyllenhaal see’s Baylor’s actions as how an officer would ideally accept responsibility if their poor judgement resulted in the loss of a life. The Guilty raises the question of whether it is trying to defend or explain away police brutality by putting a sympathetic face to the inhumane behavior. You’re not a victim, you should be fucking executed!”Ĭould Joe have performed a real-life execution in a moment of self-righteous fury, even about a 19-year-old kid? It seems painfully likely. Recall Joe’s inaccurate snap judgment of Emily’s ex-husband, Henry (Peter Sarsgaard): “What do you want me to say, that you’re a victim? You’re not a victim, Emily is a victim, Olivier is a victim, Abby is a victim. We can also see that he’s hyper-motivated to do good things, likely as a product of his current predicament, but it’s easy to speculate that Joe was appalled by some violent behavior which he believed this 19-year-old committed (whether he did or not), and then lashed out to an extreme to correct the situation. ![]() Adding to that, he doesn’t hesitate to break the law by having Rick break into Emily’s ex-husband’s apartment if it means he can solve a case. We see how Joe reacts to stressful situations: He’s demanding and impulsive, and he yells and snaps at colleagues that are just trying to assist him.Īnother aspect that seems damning is the way that Joe judges the film’s early 911 callers, as if they are not worthy of help since they figuratively made their beds themselves. Looking at how Joe is presented in the film, it’s not a stretch to imagine this character making such a ghastly and bad decision, and then trying to justify it to himself. Joe ends the film by calling back the reporter and we learn that Joe pleads guilty to manslaughter, despite other conversations indicating that he would fight to be acquitted at his trial. “I wanted to punish him because I was angry. Joe reveals that he shot a 19-year-old man while on duty. To try to relate to the feelings that Emily is having, he reveals his own history of violence. After Joe’s persistence pays off and he discovers that his mystery caller Emily is not the victim of a kidnapping, but a mentally unstable woman who physically harmed her infant son, he desperately tries to convince Emily not to hurt herself. It’s only in The Guilty’s final moments that we get some clarity on the situation, though the details are still kept vague. The film gives us scarce details about what went down, with Joe’s ex-partner Rick and his former sergeant alluding to a court date, as well as a reporter from the Los Angeles Times repeatedly calling Joe for comment, but no one spells out exactly what Joe did to get the punishment of working the phones. In Antoine Fuqua’s new Netflix film, The Guilty, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Joe Baylor, a police officer forced to work in a Los Angeles Emergency Call Center due to an ongoing investigation into misconduct that occurred while Baylor was on the job. You can read our spoiler-free review here. This article contains major spoilers for The Guilty.
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