For me, this movie would have felt complete if we were given the pleasure of seeing the female lead's reaction to the big reveal about her father. I really wanted to see that because we cared about her and knew how tortured she was over her father.
I admit that I was tricked into getting annoyed about the 'convenient' visit by the clerk to the lead's temp house where she gave him the 'revealing' page of court testimony that the victim's mother had poured over for years. I was thinking, "Oh sure. A break in the case via such a contrived find." Umm... was I wrong! The fact that the victim's mother never truly identified the green dress only led down a rabbit hole. It did not actually mean anything and did not help the writer solve the case.
I admit that I was tricked into getting annoyed about the 'convenient' visit by the clerk to the lead's temp house where she gave him the 'revealing' page of court testimony that the victim's mother had poured over for years. I was thinking, "Oh sure. A break in the case via such a contrived find." Umm... was I wrong! The fact that the victim's mother never truly identified the green dress only led down a rabbit hole. It did not actually mean anything and did not help the writer solve the case.