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Would you like some cucumber...

posted 11 years ago by Arec_Barwin
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...that I'm cutting pieces off...with a huge knife...in the car...because, as I stated earlier, I live off vegetables???

Talk about foreshadowing...and convenience. Love it.

[–] jfd0210 10 years ago

I always laugh at that...for all the reasons you stated.
Plus: she cuts a SLIVER, looked like you could read a newspaper through it.
She shoves the nice up in Angela's face, I am surprised she didn't scream.
If you really "lived off of" vegetables, would you carry them inside and put them in the refrigerator? Why leave them in the car with a dirty knife (ok, I know, then there is no murder).
All that said, I still watch this whenever it is on.

[–] Arec_Barwin 10 years ago

LOL. I don't think I've ever seen such a clunky and unrealistic plot contrivance in order for there to be an available murder weapon at just the right time.

Can only imagie what my family would say if I walked out with a plate of veggies and a huge knife saying it was for when I got peckish.

And what about the safety issues? A crash would be bad enough without impaling yourself on a dagger. Imagine explaining that to the emergency services.

[–] sage2112 8 years ago

hahaha "clunky" - perfect word for it. Man she shoved that big ol blade all up in her face.

[–] marvelass 10 years ago

For what it's worth, the real Angela's sister testified in court (under oath) that the knife was in the car because she liked to cut up and eat vegetables when she drove around and ran errands. Perhaps she was just saying that to cover her little sister's ass so the murder wouldn't look premeditates, but the movie was just taking her statement as true.

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[–] stephtastrophe 10 years ago

With the stupid things people do sometimes it wouldn't surprise me if someone went around chopping up cucumber and eating it in the car tbh. But yes, I would not do that, it could be hazardous to yourself if you crashed.

So in a way it's a little her sisters fault for leaving that knife there otherwise there would have been no weapon for the kill in the first place.

real human being and a real hero

[–] ShizaMinelli 9 years ago

So in a way it's a little her sisters fault for leaving that knife there otherwise there would have been no weapon for the kill in the first place.

And it's also the fault of the knife manufacturer, the person who invented the knife, the first person to discover stainless steel, and the first caveman who discovered that you could poke things with sharp pointy objects.

Or maybe the fault lies solely on the person who CHOSE to Susan another human to death.

When you're 17 a cow can seem dangerous and forbidden...am I alone here?

[–] chuggliams 9 years ago

'Chose to Susan another person to death?!'
Is Susaning a thing?
I'm going to use it as a surreal threat if someone annoys me!

[–] happyphantom9 9 years ago

I wonder which one was true, to be honest. I can see it being a 2nd-degree crime of passion murder, as portrayed in the movie, where Angela panics and goes crazy and thinks that killing Stacey is her only option.

Or, I wonder if the whole set-up (inviting her to the non-existent party, etc) was part a murder scheme that she had already thought of. No one knows what happened in the car before Stacey got out.

[–] linsylpn 9 years ago

This movie always makes me think of an incident that happened to me, A few years ago I lived next door to this guy that became friends with my husband, I didn't really care for him because he was a heavy drinker but he was always cool to me so whatever. One weekend my husband borrowed a screw driver from him. The next night the guy came over and asked if my husband could give him a ride to the local legion which was a couple streets over, My husband wasn't feeling well, but I was going out to get cigarettes anyway so I gave him a ride. As I was pulling out of the driveway I said oh let me run in and get that screw driver for you and he was like ahh don't worry about it just bring it over in the morning. So I drop him off, go home and go to bed. About 2am we are woken up to two people fighting outside. I look outside and its my neighbor and I guess the people who had brought him home from the bar, They are punching each other and fighting right in our front yard, Both drunk as can be. We called the cops. This movie immediately came into my mind that night, like what if I had given him that screw driver? He would have had a weapon and probably would have stabbed the other guy!! Like that stupid vegetable knife just happen to be in the car LOL Seriously though, that's ridiculous. Stopping at stop lights, peeling cucumbers?

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