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How to call her bluff

posted 11 years ago by Piston_Smash
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When Noone meets with Donna and reaches a point where he is not convinced that she is telling the truth about Peter, why not say to her, "Tell me now exactly where I can find Peter or I am using this telephone [points to phone] to call the Fuzz and you can explain it all to them!"
Simple.
But then I suppose we'd have no film. Plus, Noone was accused of, and recognised in himself, his tendency to embellish his own life for his radio audience. I mean, on the plane he told the woman next to him that Peter was his son!

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[–] thefilmdevotee 9 years ago

The lie he told on the plane made no sense for me, totally out of character.

Whereas the entire authorship/catfish deal with Donna made me sceptical. Ordinarily it is customary for authors to meet editors and/or someone else from the publisher.

Especially seeing as it's a non-fiction book, you would think the publisher would make proper sure to verify at least the authors identity.

But you yourself said it: There'd be no film.

[–] RAYNA-1 8 years ago

I cought on when she said that she was sewing him a sweater and needed the dark green to match his eyes....
The airplane scene I thought was just about him wanting it to be real...and not wanting to relay the full story yet. maybe?

[–] brainbuster888 8 years ago

Call the cops about what?
She would just say, "Call them."
You think the cops are going to make a blind woman prove the existence of a boy?