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What if the whole school blew up at the recital?
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- The one question: what if Nick realizes at the recital that it is about to blow up, and the whole school explodes as the ending?
- The school exploding is judged too dark, since hundreds of kids would die, though the film did blow up a prison.
- A note triggering a bomb is compared with Arlington Road, which is said to follow its premise all the way through.
- Nick being strangled by his tie, with a flashback of Clyde rigging his ties, would have been appropriate.
- Clyde could peek from behind the curtain or be the piano accompanist; the film should not have shown the flames around Clyde, leaving his escape open.
- Nick has to die in the last scene, and one voice says they all agree.