Slightly confused... Questions...


So I absolutely loved this movie (and the book) but there were parts of the movie I didn't quite understand if someone could help explain them to me...

1) In the beginning, Darcy asked the physician how he knew his rib wound wasn't a bite mark, to which the physician said he had been doing this for a long time. Then Darcy said there was no wound. (??)
2) Why did Darcy go for a swim after fighting with Elizabeth? Was this meant to be sexual somehow, or...?
3) Why did Darcy and Bingley set their watches together? I assumed at first it was maybe a countdown till sunrise and the subsequent explosion of the bridge, but then Darcy's watch went off while he was in the cell with Lydia. This couldn't have been dawn because it was still dark when they went outside.
4) What happened when Wickham tried to shoot Darcy (right after #3)? Did it hit the metal frame of the cell? I was just confused because it seemed like a direct shot but Darcy wasn't hit.
5) I was particularly confused about the geography of the movie, and maybe that's just a result of me not knowing the geography of England. So, the great wall was around the city of London, correct? And the moat around the remainder of England, encompassing the "in-between"? So was the bridge from England to another country? Where did the girls live? Where was the battle at the end? And what side of the bridge were the zombies on after the explosion? What side the heroes? I realize my confusion likely draws from my own stupidity and not remembering correctly from the movie, but any enlightenment would be appreciated.

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1) My impression is that it was a trick question and Darcy is making the point that even though they have this elaborate security there is still the possibility of human error. If the guy wasn’t paying enough attention to remember that Darcy had no wound he might have missed a bite on someone else.

2) It’s a wink at the 1995 adaption of P&P where Darcy (Collin Firth) goes for a swim. I’m not sure it has any more meaning than that but maybe he is trying to cool off and work off his frustration.

3) I think they were sinking their watches for the bridge explosion but then Darcy seems to also have timed the exact moment when the zombies upstairs will react to the human brains. (How Darcy is able to time this so precisely is never explained.)

4) I think that the zombies caused enough ruckus to throw Wickham’s shot off right at that exact moment. (This goes back to Darcy’s ability to predict this moment so precisely that he doesn’t have to worry about Wickham shooting him too soon ;)

5) I found that part confusing too but here’s my impression: London is surrounded by a wall; a larger area (but not all of England) called the in-between is surrounded by a canal with one bride connecting it to the rest of England; there are people living outside the in-between in high security estates; one of these estates is Longbourn where the girls live and Rosings is another; the bridge connects the in-between to this larger part of England. (Distances here are a little wonky given that someone can just jump on a horse and ride into the in-between in a short amount of time.)

I think/guess that the in-between was set up because they didn’t have the resources to fight zombies throughout England and planned to secure an area around London. At the end the Zombies attack London from within (I’m assuming Wickham got enough zombies in to infect others and London was taken over very quickly), breached the wall and moved into the in-between from the London side, the army fought them at the wall and then in the in-between, finally withdrawing across the bridge to the larger area of England leaving the zombies in the in-between — until the post-credits scene. (I would assume there are still a fair number of Zombies throughout England but they are attempting to contain a large number who are fighting with purpose in the in-between.)

I don’t think your confusion draws from stupidity, I watched the movie a second time and paid particular attention to the details about geography to get straight on this part.

Hope that helps :).

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Thank you! I appreciate it! I was mostly just confused about the parts of the movie that weren't in the book haha :)

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No problem I enjoy talking about stuff like this - I thought your questions were one of the more interesting posts on this board. :)

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"Sinking their watches": should be spelled syncing, as in synchronous or in sync.

That moat around the rest of England (and abutting countries of Scotland and Wales) is a doozy. In fact, it's an ocean. :-)

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And here I thought the answer to question number one was because the doctor was a perverted old man, the way he looked at Darcy when we exited, and didn't bother looking at any other part of his body while he was in the examination booth. Maybe I'm the perverted one!

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Those aren't mutually exclusive ideas. :o)

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1. The doctor was a gaymosexual, and was staring at Darcy's dong through his microscope.

5. This wasn't really confusing to me at all, so I think it must just be because you're not familiar with English geography. There were two lines of defences around London, with an unspecified distance between them, but several miles. The inner defence was the wall the outer defence the moat. The bridge was from the area around London to the rest of the country. The girls lived in Hertfordshire, less than an hour's drive north of London in today's terms. At the end, the zombies were contained within the defences and everyone else outwith.



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was staring at Darcy's dong through his microscope

...Oh no!!  Please tell me you actually meant to say "telescope", otherwise I couldn't bear to live in such a cruel world...

there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder

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#1 was to test and show that the body check didn't work. That guy was leering at Darcy's body. By answering that the wound mark was not a zombie bite, it proofed that he didn't check Darcy properly since Darcy didn't have any wound in the first place and that's why Darcy insisted on checking the gaming area with flies.

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At the end it looks like she stabbed him, but no blood. I couldn't figure out what happened. Anybody confused?

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4: whenever it switches to the zombie's POV, they can't see very clearly far away so i thought Darcy had figured out that Wickam was a zombie all along and that was why he moved to the area with more filigree to protect himself.

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1) The guy was too busy being turned on by him the even check for wounds

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Since this is a "question thread," can someone tell me what happened to Lady Lena "Eyepatch" Headey's daughter, Anne?

I was waiting to see how Darcy was going to address that engagement situation, but Anne wasn't there, so I must have missed her death or zombification or whatever.

TIA . . .

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