Not to be picky, but .... (spoiler possible)
First of all, I liked this film very much. I've had to deal with deep personal grief a couple of times in the past decade, one a sudden one like this, and it does capture the range of feelings/responses that vary from person to person.
And I'm not a quibbler about little things. I go with the flow and appreciate film stories for what they're meant to be. And, after this and An Education, I'm ready to watch any film Carey Mulligan appears in.
But sometimes reality jars me out of the fiction of the film flow. In this case, two things at the same time-point of the film. And perhaps they were both just conveniences to help the story along.
Or did I just missed something that logically explains it ....
1. Aside from the idiot kid stopping the car in the middle of the road in a dark area, on an s-curve ... well teen-agers don't always have the best judgment and he was overcome with needing to tell Rose how he felt ... and we've got to have a reason for the movie .... But, the creep in the pickup rams into the car, gets out of his pickup, goes to Bennett, talks to him, covers him with a jacket, spending 17 minutes with him ... and THEN goes into a coma for six (or whatever) months?
2. And, during all this, on a parkway road in the middle of nowhere (judging by the environment in daytime seen at the end of the film), there is a surveillance camera mounted somewhere to capture these 17 minutes in enough detail to see all that, though not hearing what is said, and at night too?
What'd I miss that explains these two things? (The suspension-of-logic need to help move the storyline along, I'm guessing.)
Again, I'm usually in the moment during a well-done film like this, but when it got to the end of the movie at the accident scene, it stopped me when I realized that, "Wait a minute. There's not gonna be some camera, at night, filming those 17 minutes. And what'd the other guy have? A 17-minute delayed onset of a six-month coma?"
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