[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

So you understood that there was some external reason for Krim turning evil and that it wasn't of his own conscience, but you still had a problem buying in to that part of the movie?

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

When you explain it like that, I guess I can see why you might side with the executives, due to them being denied an explanation for Shinnosuke's evasion.

Krim's plot in the first half: Wow, I can't believe we've misjudged Krim for so long, and that he's secretly an evil monster who wants to destroy us! Looks like we'll have to kill him for the good of humanity, since there's all this evidence that paints him in a negative light!

Shinnosuke's plot in the second half: How DARE you think that Shinnosuke is secretly an evil monster who wants to destroy us! If you have any love for humanity, you'll ignore any evidence that paints him in a negative light!

Putting these two problems side-by-side maybe clarifies the main issue I have with them: it's a weird double-standard that also negates the impact of one of the main morals. Krim's very quickly executed thanks to a ton of circumstantial evidence (kid from future swears that Krim needs to be executed immediately, and isolates Shinnosuke from anyone who'd talk him out of it), while Shinnosuke actually/accidentally blew up a power plant, but refuses to explain himself.

We're in a story about having faith in your friends - Shinnosuke's main arc in this movie is trying to redeem himself from failing Krim - but the movie conflates that with the police having very reasonable requests re: Explaining Why You Blew Up A Power Plant And Then Ran Away.

It's... it's not really the same thing, these two plots, and it's weird to make them part of the same narrative thread. If the movie wanted to do a thing where some scheming official wanted to use Drive's accident to bring down Shinnosuke, sure, that'd be along the same lines. But Shinnosuke is being asked to ignore unreliable testimony, while the police are asked to end an investigation into wrongdoing, and those are so different in my mind that it makes a bunch of the movie not work great.