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Everybody's lazy

posted 12 years ago by snapcoyote
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It amazes me how every character other than the leads are extremely lazy. The french cops all come up with excuses saying it's a sunday or it's august so we're not going to bother. The montreal investigators just sat in the car while letting the other cops interrogate a possible suspect. The dentist complains he's missing his golf game to help the cop. The psychiatrist is doodling while listening to a plea for help. It just shows that if you're going to commit a crime in france, do it on a sunday in august.

[–] spasticfreakshow 12 years ago

fully agree. they can't even FIND a plastic surgeon anywhere who'll take their call (which turns out to be one minute's worth of work), the list goes on. there are a few redeeming characters for france - the black shop owner who helps sophie, the japanese-french woman whose car she robbed, the detective, fugiat and his assistant (not from the get-go but eventually they redeem themselves).

it's not very inviting -- and having visited paris twice i'd agree the french people are NOT very charming, unless they already know you or want something from you (i.e. you're a very attractive woman and they're men) -- in fact, i'd say they're superficial and obnoxious and downright rude to strangers. also, i paid 56 euro for a pot of tea and piece of cake in a tea house. crack smokers.

[–] TheManInOil 9 years ago

I'm just watching it now, maybe 20 minutes in.

It would be SO easy to prove her identity and her travel history. If they even made a couple of phone calls they'd immediately start realizing she was telling the truth.

Yet she seems happy to get steamrolled and doesn't insist they check.

If she just asked them to CALL HER MOTHER, everything would get figured out pretty quick.

I find it so frustrating when a movie's plot requires the characters to act stupidly.

[–] Ace_Spade 8 years ago

SPOILERS BELOW!

I'm an hour in, and that stuff is still bugging me. The airport has no record at all of her 24 hours after she was there? The killer has the power to erase security footage, erase cabin crew's memories, delete airline records and flight data, brainwash out a taxi driver's memory, fake two passports (she'd need to fake hers leaving and Sophie's coming in), fake a whole website (which has been running long enough for Claire to have used it and be recommending it; at least a year it's been up) without switch.com showing up on ANY blog, facebook account, or other peripheral site, baffle medical professionals and Interpol (INTERPOL! HOW IS SHE FLYING!?), transport a HUMAN HEAD THROUGH AIRPORT SECURITY, manage to stash the body without anybody being the wiser, and kill Claire without being concerned that THAT will backfire...it goes on and on. All Sophie has to do, meanwhile, is call any of the DOZENS of people that she must know (friends, family, ex-boyfriends, professors from university, teachers of other natures, employers, co-workers, neighbours, etc., etc.) and it clears up almost instantly. How does NOBODY have a record of Sophie that conflicts with the killer? It's nuts. It's driving me NUTS. The only plausible explanation at this point is that the killer is CIA or an alien or something, ANYTHING with the power to do all that she has done and obfuscate every piece of evidence (and telepathically convince the authorities to ALL be patently terrible at their jobs).

To top it all off, Sophie has now committed actual crimes (grand theft auto, armed robbery, escaping arrest, assault with a deadly weapon) which she would be guilty of regardless of why she did them.

This movie.

[–] heckles 7 years ago

<It just shows that if you're going to commit a crime in france, do it on a sunday in august.>

I suspect that if you did it on a Wednesday in March, if French are like the movie makes them out to be they'd still make a hash of it.

[–] heckles 7 years ago