You’d think that the ending of Trouble, which sees Conny carrying a television around a hotel with police officer Diana, would be rather silly.
But it isn’t. Mainly because it’s already established that Conny, the TV and Home Technology Salesman, has a passion for high-definition and surround sound, which accidentally led to him wrongfully being charged with murder.
(It’s a full circle moment for him: the same TV that got him in trouble is also saving him).
And, considering the television they are holding has all the video evidence proving that it was police detective Helena behind the murder after a “drug deal” gone wrong, it was the only desperate measure they had.
(Yes, it’s all bizarre, and somehow, it works!).
Luckily for Conny, Helena was in the same hotel, and it was revealed that his lawyer was also framing him for murder as he worked for her. Conny never stood a chance with the judicial system!
Helena and the lawyer agree to a drug deal on the top floor, and Conny and Diana walk into the hotel with the primary evidence (the saved footage on the TV), ready to call the police.
When the police do arrive, a panicked Helena tries to distract them by diverting them to another building. This is when Conny and Diana nearly lose all hope. Escaped prisoner Musse, who Conny worked with to escape earlier in the film, finds them and shoots the television, risking destroying the footage.
Eventually, after many missteps, Helena once again gets the upper hand over the situation and tells the police chief, Josef, to arrest Diana, claiming that she is conspiring with Conny and that she’s murdered police officers.
Of course, Helena is the conspirator in all of this; she has gone to extreme measures to cover up the murder and the corruption. She was willing to murder others and frame Diana and Conny for murder to cover up her secret criminal life.
But Conny, who is still not caught at this point, decides to use his technology skills. He sneaks into the hotel server room with the frazzled TV and connects its hard drive to a server.
While Helena heads down the elevator with Josef and her colleagues, the elevator screen shows the video footage from the TV’s hard drive, which proves she was behind the murder that Conny was put in prison for. Conny is streaming the footage to the elevator.
With Conny proving his innocence, he is free from prison by the end of Trouble. It’s also a happy ending, as he’s reunited with his daughter, and he’s potentially forming a romance with Diana, who he had chemistry with from the day he met her when he met her at the store where he works.
Trouble is not a story that is to be taken too seriously. It’s a lot of fun, and by the end of the film, you feel duly amused but happy for Conny.
