early on in the movie jessie assumes roy is back on the train, this is stupid because a married couple traveling in russia by train for the first time would probably want to be in close contact at all times!! I don't care if roy is train affacinando, you don't get separated in a foreign country!!
shareYes, it's stupid! I mean, it's not like the entire Siberia is a cold desolate place void of all life and any traces of technology! It really isn't! There are repeater towers EVERYWHERE, set up just for the case someone wants to call someone else from the most dead end place on Earth.
shareYeah, maybe they had. Alas, would you expect a lot of coverage in Siberia?
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Maybe they don't get separated, as a rule, but actually they did. In dramatic situations people don't behave the way they do... at the mall. You see a lot of pictures with cellphones. Not this one. Sorry.
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As everyone else said, there's no cell phone reception in Siberia. But I wondered why they didn't communicate via email. There would probably have been internet access in both of those villages.
shareI wonder , when this movie is supposed to take place. If it's mid-late 90-s than there would be not as many cellphones around as there are today.
shareDo Americans generally own cell phones that would work in China or Russia?
I know I don't. Heck my cell phone "barely" worked in Canada. ;-)
even if they had cellphones, what indication is there that they would work. it has only been a few years since people from north america could even use their phones outside of north america (the advent of GSM phones). even then, that's in places like hong kong or the UK.... not siberia.
and even if the couple did have GSM phones, what indication is there that there would be service in siberia of all places?
So for them to have cell phones that worked they would need a whole set of convenient circumstances that are probably not all going to happen.
What's the point in endlessly debating such minute details as the prevalence of cell phone coverage in Russia? So much of what make movies effective depends on whether an audience member can suspend a certain amount of belief. The "all-encompassing" point of movies is (Other than artistic purposes) to entertain, not to provide nit-picky viewers with fuel to debate over in a forum. I am sick of seeing all these ridiculous posts on here. I would rather talk about relevant subjects relating to the bigger picture of the movie. Come on!
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