12th Night: The End of the Detective Movie Explained

Yesterday evening, the detective film “Twelfth Night” was shown on television, which was a thorough investigation to find the killer of young Clara. Directed by Dominique Moll, the feature film chooses to leave the ending open, with no reference to the culprit. Specify the system more correctly. Explanations.

Johan Vives (Bastien Bouillon) becomes Chief of the Grenoble Judicial Police on October 12, 2016. That night, a young woman, Clara, was brutally murdered and burned alive. Then begins a long and patient investigation for Vives, who will spend years solving the case.

As the film progresses, the suspects are scrutinized, as well as their alibis, their relationship with the victim, as well as the slightest word they might have said, thus betraying their possible guilt.

suspects

• Wesley works at a bowling alley. Has an alibi corroborated by his girlfriend.
• Jules Leroy, a climbing enthusiast with his grandmother. Clara’s sex friend. He appears indifferent to Clara’s death, laughing hysterically in front of the police who come to question him.
• Gabby Lacazette, in high school with Clara, the bad boy in town, was his ex before Wesley. Wrote a song where he says he’s going to “burn” her.
• Dennis Dwyce, a scooterist who found a lighter at the scene of the crime. He lives next door, but on the evening of the 12th he “saw nothing, heard nothing.”
• Vincent Caron, with a violent past, ex-Clara, who left a shirt in a place where residents leave their thoughts and small words for a young woman.
• Stephanie Begin, Clara’s best friend, who only gives information when the police come to track her down.

The others have solid alibis, as does the last suspect, who was interned in a mental hospital at the time of the incident.

How does the movie end?

In the last sequence, Joan Vives writes to Marceau, who has gone to recharge his batteries, to deliver some news. She informs him that despite the new judge’s insistence that the case be cleared up (by such means), Clara’s investigation “is not yet complete.” Therefore, the resolution of the case is left to the imagination of the viewer.

As Vives said in his meeting with the judge: “What drove me crazy was that every guy we talked to could do it. Maybe none of them are killers, but they could do it. I don’t know how else to say it, everybody could do it. Everyone he met, even them , who wasn’t a bastard, and maybe every man he hadn’t met.”

The judge agrees:

I” M a woman. I am also an investigating judge. I’d have to be totally blind not to see that there’s something wrong between a man and a woman, as you say.

“Clara’s case,” as it is nicknamed in the film, is another symptom, according to the authors, of the observation that these are mainly Men who kill women. Therefore, the 12th night chooses to avoid individual guilt and place it on the collective, the system, the human group.

However, it opens up a glimmer of hope for Clara’s relatives and parents, as the investigation resumes three years after the events. For his part, investigator Yoann Vivès feels at peace with the fact that he may never find the culprit and manage to have a more balanced personal life. Leaving the velodrome in which he rode his bike in circles, Vivès can finally move forward in a straight line, towards a slightly brighter future.