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Has anybody actually realised ....

posted 13 years ago by Tinkerbellprincess69
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Has anybody actually thought this film through! All along she has been lying (Haylie Duff) about who she actually was and it turned out she was dead Regina's sister seeking revenge. But how was she on a holiday with close friends who surely would have known who her sister was!!! When they guys were telling the story about how they had buried her after her accidental death, how would they not have known that it was their "friends" (Haylie Duff) sister they were talking about!

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[–] bahrain_hostage 13 years ago

it sounds like you are thinking that haylies character really was good friends with the other kids like she was telling in the story. if that's so then you missed pretty much the whole twist of the movie.

the entire time that haylie was telling the story she was obviously pretending that she was jenna when in reality she was the lucy hale character. so haylie was really the "stow away" that keith brought along. everything you thought you saw lucy hales character do you really saw haylies do and vice versa.

that's why it came out that according to brians parents jenna and brian had never dated. haylies character was filling in little details and a lot of them were just things she made up.

so it's not like all the main characters just ignored the fact that "hey , that girl we tag teamed and buried at that one party is jennas sister". because it was still meagans sister who none of them had met before keith brought her to the island.

the only way they would have known there was any connection was if they had seen her on the news or however real jennas parents knew what she looked like and remembered her name, or if all the kids went to the same school and it was common knowldege that the girls were sisters. but since it just says that the boys saw her at a random bus stop then we have no reason to believe that they had ever seen regina before.

i hope i wrote that in a way that made sense, it's one of those things that you can follow in your mind but it's hard to explain to someone through text.

the only thing that i had a major problem with in this movie was when the people interviewing her were all like " how did you know what regina looked like?" when haylie clearly stated in her story that she was at the party and walked by the room and saw the boys with regina. why are they so totally flabbergasted by the fact that she knew what she would know what she looked like?? the story was also in the news and therefor her photo would have been plastered everywhere.

also the fact that meagan slipped the lady like 4 "super strong" sleeping pills yet she still seems like on the edge of consiousness when the detective finds her, it seems like she would be dead out.

[–] Tinkerbellprincess69 13 years ago

Thankyou for explaining it makes sense now, I knew it would be something obvious that I just wasn't getting, I just couldn't get my head around it! Yeah I agree with you on those last 2 points!

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[–] clever-username 12 years ago

As done by a better director / screenwriter: in Fight Club where after the Big Reveal, they have a quick cut montage where they show Ed Norton performing many of the actions we remember Tyler Durden performing.

[–] Chilloa 12 years ago

This would have been much better! Instead of showing that Megan (Fake Jenna) drugged the Doctors drink, as if we didn't already see that coming, they should have showed her coming out of the boat as the stowaway. Or leaving the docks, with the walkie-talkie, to be alone. That needed more clarification than revealing that Megan was walking away as the doctor.

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[–] HenryCW 11 years ago

I have watched the movie a second time bearing in mind to “switch faces” on the screen. In other words the Megan character on the screen should have Haylie Duff’s face while the Jenna on the screen should have Lucy Hale’s face. That presumably was what the second poster in this thread said and I am sure was also what the film intended. Unfortunately, even so, there are still many parts of the film that couldn’t be explained or didn’t make any sense. For example, why did Megan kill Keith to save Jenna when she was strung upside down but then kill her in the boat? How did the boat disappear and then reappear later? If the boat was not actually sunk, then why didn’t they escape from the island when something went wrong? In fact, the only way for the film to make sense would be that Megan killed all of them in their sleep and then made up the entire story that she told to the authorities. The idea of “switching faces” would give a good twist, but only if after the viewer knows the twist then all the scenes in the movie suddenly hold together and start to make sense. This has not been the case for this film.

There are also some plot holes and parts unexplained. At the beginning we saw the Haylie Duff character running through the woods and she was finally caught by heavily armed police. How and why did the police look for them in the island? Wouldn’t the Haylie Duff character as the sole survivor be the natural suspect? So why did they allow her to walk about freely in the hospital especially as she appeared to be in an unstable state? Did any of the kids have identifications of any kind? The police seemed to be able to identify everyone except Megan and Jenna. How was it possible for the police to have the photo of Jenna posted on the board without knowing her identity?! There are just too many unanswered (and very likely unanswerable) questions.

[–] terrencepatrix 11 years ago

The way it makes sense is...that the only reason that the real Megan knew what was going on the entire time is that she was spying on every one.

I don't believe ANY of the situations happened the way the story told, it was ALL a fabrication to stall for time until she could get out.

The real Megan stalked and murdered them all (along with Keith), that's how she knew all the reactions regardless of where her character actually was.

The thing about this movie is...100% of it is a second hand story. Literally NONE of what was shown has any reason to be true. It was all told by the killer.

Basically everything in this movie could easily be explained away as a lie to kill time until the killer could escape. It's actually really shallow story telling when you get down to it.