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Are there no police where these people live?

posted 12 years ago by Iris_W
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Aside from the ones who came to the house at the start?
So this guy goes home, finds someone breaking into his house robbing his dead son and/or finding secrets for the media, and doesn't call the cops or even threaten to?
Also when they were screaming at eachother in the hotel, I find it hard to believe that no-one heard them, there were other guests because you saw them earlier on. The hotel rooms I've been in have been so close together you can hear people's alarm clocks and TVs.

Not to mention when he threatens his work colleagues and when the son's grave gets vandalised.
No wonder there was a killing spree in this town!

Good film otherwise.

[–] RalphDeCat 11 years ago

There's lots of reasons why he didn't call the police about someone going through the house or the grave getting vandalized. It's called a sense of guilt - like maybe he felt like it was deserved. You think that the Klebolds and Harrises didn't get harassed by the public after Columbine? You didn't hear about them making a stink. And maybe people in the hotel didn't care to interfere - I've heard arguments in hotels before and didn't get involved. The hotel wasn't in their home town, they travelled away from home and went first to the brother's house ELSEWHERE and then talked in the car about where to go from there. And the college was also in another town. So "No wonder there was a killing spree in this town?" Um, wrong place.

[–] Stirchley 11 years ago

finds someone breaking into his house robbing his dead son

That scene was very unrealistic. No way two people with such a nice house would not have an alarm system.

[–] dragoncane 9 years ago

The thing that took me out of the film was that they didn't have their mail stopped/forwareded.