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plot hole - for me anyway

posted 18 years ago by margot122
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Why didn't Maureen use her mobile phone again - or why not a quick explanation like "Bloody credit has run out" when she would more obviously try to call 000?

I like the film -(liked? well hope never to enjoy that experience on a train anytime). Who knows what I would do in a train carriage with fellow passengers - junkie and his protector/girl thinking who thinks she is invincible/protected on a mission with a bloke with a mission/lady running away and trying to be tough but badly in need of a drink.....

The film held my interest from go to definite woe for some characters and I like to see again the real time film, and there are definite parallels to other films (classical music & violence - rings a bell) - but as I said I stayed glued.

But that mobile phone thing was a plot hole for me and I don't know how it was handled in the play. Has anyone read the play and can join the dots for me?

[–] dmajorinc 17 years ago

You don't need credit for 000 (or 112 in this case)... How would she go about calling the police without the tall thug doing something about it?

[–] stupod 17 years ago

The plot hole for me was how Simon had managed to coordinate the whole thing. He got himself a good looking girlfriend, a gun, worked out where and when 'The Tall Thug' would be on a train, convinced Lisa to go along with it (which is possibly the hardest bit to believe) and then bothered to let all that stuff play out for an hour before actually doing something. If all he wanted to do was have that 10 minute confrontation at the end, why didn't he just do that at the start? Why even bother with the train?

I loved the film intensely and I'm thinking it may be the best Australian film I've ever seen, but those little things bothered me. I suppose it's not that those things bothered me about the film, but they bothered me with regards to my after-thoughts and consideration of the story.

I'm an Australian and lived in Fremantle for a while. It's a lovely place, but Australia is crowded with thugs.

Anyway, I'm way off the topic I'm replying to, so, good night.

Watch this movie!

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[–] bnixon-1 17 years ago

I felt the movie quite disappointing. The plot twist(s) at the end were nonsensical. The acting was wooden. Who ever heard of two bogans talking about classical music and the economy? All in all, it did not ring true for me.

[–] Cube_Brick1138 17 years ago

I used to catch that train (midland train, not the last train) nearly every night. I sat on the same bench they sat on at the start of the film many hundreds of times and have scratched initials in it. Until the end and except for the extreme violence, the bogans in this film rang very true for me. I have had all sorts of bizarre conversations with people on that train.

[–] CitrusWithFuschiaTrim 16 years ago

> Who ever heard of two bogans talking about classical music and the economy?

I've encountered many overly loud train passengers who make intelligent and quite amusing observations about all manner of topics while simultaneously managing to be more than a little menacing. I'd agree that the film had some plausibility issues (particularly in the final half hour) but I'd not count that among them.

Actually the lead thug reminded me ever so slightly of the witty n'er-do-well in Mike Leigh's "Naked".

[–] tokie_mcbong 17 years ago

more like she was just trying to reassure herself, plus they never actually try to rape her, theyre just intimidating.

and has it occured to anyone that maybe maureens phone had no reception, or, god forbid, it was broken?

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