question about the belt trap
I didn't get what hapenned with the belt of fermat?? what kind of a trap was that?!?
shareThe mastermind behind everything put poison on the belt.
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The mastermind assumed Fermat would wear his seatbelt, leaving him to die after two mintues, however as the policeman points out, he drives without his seatbelt on.
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however as the policeman points out, he drives without his seatbelt on.However, when the policeman pointed that, Fermat did put the seatbelt on (and presumably died as a consequence). share
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When "Fermat" finally puts his seat belt on, you hear a faint noise that sounds like a small glass vial breaking, which was the poison which would become gaseous and therefore fatal. Admittedly, a reeeeeally long stretch.
sharethus leading him to put on his seat belt (which he could have done after leaving the warehouse [snip]
You forget this is a Spanish movie. Real men don't wear seatbelts.
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I also thought it was really stupid. He was the only driver on the road, he could have just stopped and taken the call. It was completely preposterous that he just kept driving while unsuccessfully trying to answer the phone.
And when he fastens his seat belt, neither he nor the policeman hear the sound of breaking glass?? Or they hear it and just ignore it? Because, naturally, one hears breaking glass every time one puts on a seat belt.
Hilbert did not know that Fermat doesn't drive with a seatbelt. Hilbert assumed that Fermat would put on his seatbelt and release the poison as planned.
Hilbert never planned for the police to stop Fermat and tell him to put on his seatbelt. In fact his entire scheme was about to unravel because of his mistake. It was only by a remarkable stroke of luck on Hilbert's part that Pascal tried to call Fermat at just the right moment to start a chain of events that would lead to Fermat putting on his seatbelt and releasing the poison as planned.
This is an acceptable plot device, and is used elsewhere too. See: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LuckyBastard
It wasn't poison, it was sleeping gas. Fermat was supposed to get in a fatal car crash and the police were supposed to think he fell asleep at the wheel. Never mind that no sleeping gas takes two minutes doing nothing than instantly knocks TWO full grown men out. Plus if he got sleepy he would have slowed down.
shareHe said the gas was phosgene, one of the killers in the Bhopal Union Carbide disaster. It isn't sleeping gas. Yes, you can tell when you're breathing it. Fermat would have simply rolled down the window to survive and had some minor difficulty breathing.
share"It was only by a remarkable stroke of luck on Hilbert's part that Pascal tried to call Fermat at just the right moment to start a chain of events that would lead to Fermat putting on his seatbelt and releasing the poison as planned. "
Well, if you really think of it, it was not. If it didn't happened, Hilbert would likely have survived.