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Spoiler Plot Inconsistencies

posted 14 years ago by bravehome
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I loved the performances in the film, but some of the 'logic' in it just didn't match the performances:

1. Why, when Luzhin was abandoned in the country, didn't an investigation ensue that eventually linked that to Valentinov?

2. Why, when Luzhin was "seen off" to be married, was he not accompanied by someone (both because of the previous country abandonment incident, and because of Luzhin's fragile state of mind)?

3. Why was there only one game played to decide the World Champion, when there are actually many that are played to determine that final result? The "London" rules in effect at the time of the movie required at least 6 wins to determine World Champion (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship).

[–] goleafsgo27 10 years ago

It's fiction of course, but, as I see it:
1) He would have had to have been lucid enough later to explain how he got out there, which he was not. He had already earned a reputation as highly eccentric, so few would have doubted that he somehow absentmindedly wandered out there on his own.
2) He really had no one but her, and in those days they would not have gone there together. And no one knew he'd been abandoned in the country.
3) I might well be quite off on this one but I vaguely recall it was supposed to be a normal multi-point match, but, with perhaps some poetic license, perhaps Turati agrees to allow for some resolution of it instead of none.

I have seen enough to know I have seen too much. -- ALOTO