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Black Plastic Bags

posted 15 years ago by emo_ville2002
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I missed the first 15-20 or so minutes of this film, so excuse me for being a bit confused. I gather Quinlan's character was supposed to be helping battered women by allowing them to stay at her home?

When the battered mother discovers the suitcases, personal belongings and the shackled woman in the barn, it appeared she was starting to piece together what was going on. She tried to get help, but if she actually did get help...there would be no movie left. Ha-ha!

Cut to the scene with the daughter, Quinlan and the black plastic bags, I gather Quinlan's character killed the shackled woman? If she did, I didn't see it in the version I saw on cable. I assumed those large black plastic bags, she was leaving for the coyotes to eat, contained the woman's body parts?

So, let me get this straight, this insane twisted woman was basically a serial killer? The piled up suitcases in the barn proved there was something weird going on. Women checked in, but they never checked out! lol

OF COURSE, absolutely no one was looking for all those missing woman! They simply fell off the planet! Good acting, but an absurd and silly plot.

[–] littlebeastie 15 years ago

You actually must hav e missed a lot. They never show Bea kill Maddie, but you are supposed to assume that her body is in the black bags.

The police stop in every month or so looking for women who have been deemed missing by their family's. He looks through the house, sits down for cookies and gives Bea a folder filled with info on the missing girls.

"Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity."

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[–] emo_ville2002 14 years ago

"Exactly. There was a 15 minute sequence in the middle of the film detailing the police's search for the missing women. You can always count on the "film-buffs" at IMDB to somehow miss an entire section of plot... and then call the plot "silly" as a result."

Firstly, I'm not a "film buff", I'm not obsessed with movies at all, but I will point out movies with absurd plots and elements of movies which anyone with a functioning brain, would find unbelievable...or just plain stupid.

You actually answered my question re the "silly" plot, also somewhat acknowledging that Quinlan's character was the most likely person to be the serial murderer. Police searched but obviously not enough. The woman trying to flee found the suitcases and other personal info in the barn, why didn't the police?!

Silly? You bet! I guess the "CSI" and "Law & Order" teams weren't in town, ha-ha.

The policeman dealing with Quinlan's character was incompetent, he was more interested in coffee and a chat, not to mention being dumb as a box of rocks, he couldn't figure out Quinlan killed all those "missing" women?

[–] MrBelette 14 years ago

They were all women on the run and trying to hide, of course no one could search for them if nobody knew where they went. At least Matty's husband kept looking for her and died ! As for police incompetence when it comes to looking for missing persons I'm afraid it really exists also in real life.