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Crashing through the wall


One thing I find odd is why Tom was able to crash through the wall. Just because he's indestructible wouldn't turn the wall into virtual styrofoam. Never mind making his bike indestructible as well.

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it was for comic effect

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You watch a movie about people returning from the dead as immortals, people turning into frogs and turning to stone... but this is what overcomes your capacity to suspend disbelief?

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The film never really defines the exact form their immortality takes - but on the evidence of what's actually seen in the film, they do seem to be indestructible as well as immortal: their bones can't be broken, knives and bullets don't wound them, a noose doesn't strangle them, etc. It's almost as if their bodies are made of magical stone, or something ... appropriately enough, considering what happens later. In which case crashing through a brick wall unharmed would actually make sense. I think the film does have a weird kind of internal logic going on, even if it's not spelled-out!

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Still wouldn't keep him from being knocked off the bike.

-I was born in a crossfire hurricane.

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I think returning from the dead in the way they did gave them some sort of magical/supernatural qualities as well, allowing them to break through walls, etc.

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True, and even if he were indestructable, his bike wasn't! His bike would still break when it hit the wall.

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