I like this movie, but one thing that bothers me. if the idea is that you disappear when nobody's looking at you, then I am a bit confused. there were many times where characters were not in view or even left alone but didn't disappear. Maybe the unpredictability was part of the tension though.
shareThat's what I thought was the case while watching it, but that can't have been it. Like when the guy is in bed with the girl and she disappears, he would have disappeared too. And at the end, the main character would have disappeared before the cops arrived.
And, most importantly, why did all of the cops disappear at the end? She's the one nobody was looking at, not them.
I don't get this movie at all. Great premise, but it made no sense.
It's not so much that a person will disappear the moment no one is looking, it's that no one ever disappears while being observed. As long as someone is watching you, you're safe. If you are unobserved, you're in danger.
Remember, the whole "don't blink" thing is something that the characters come up with, it's not a rule that they have been handed down. It's why I kinda wish they had kept the original title which was "Last Stop". Calling the movie "Don't Blink" adds more weight to the device than I had intended.
As for Claire in the end, as has been stated by quite a few folks on this forum, it was Claire who disappeared, not the emergency responders. The biggest clue to this is that the dispatchers voices also go silent. Even if everyone could disappear as a group, the dispatchers back away from the lodge would have remained unaffected.
The biggest clue to this is that the dispatchers voices also go silent. Even if everyone could disappear as a group, the dispatchers back away from the lodge would have remained unaffected.
Say what?? If Claire disappeared then WHY do all the cops disappear and the dispatch audio stops? Sure looked like the cops disappeared not Claire!
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I wrote and directed the film, so I'm pretty sure that I'm right on this. :)
shareLOL - should read the whole thread first.
Didn't get the dispatchers would still talk link, so yeah, Clare did a Langolier. :)
Good movie man. Hope you got other bugs in the brain trying to get out!
Thanks for the kind words!
I'm working on a couple of new projects. Always got a few bugs in the brain. :)
Was the lodge a set or real location? It looked gorgeous.
shareThanks. I was blessed with a great cinematographer by the name of Jayson Crothers that made everything look extra special. The lodge is a real place, it's actually a private home outside the town of Ruidoso, New Mexico that we dressed to look like a lodge. However, much of the furniture, including the stuffed bear and the boar's head were part of the home's actual furnishings. We obviously added the gas pumps outside.
The biggest difficulty shooting there was that it was in a very remote location in the mountains, and just like in the movie there was no cell signal! To do anything that needed a wireless connection we had to send someone down the mountain.
If Claire disappeared, wouldn't she be with the rest of the people who disappeared, or does everyone who disapears gets their own secluded vacation spot with an awesome cabin?
shareWhy did the cop say that they didn't have much time? Why wouldn't they have all the time they needed?
share"Remember, the whole "don't blink" thing is something that the characters come up with, it's not a rule that they have been handed down."
That statement confuses me, as the phrase "Don't Blink" was written on one of the mirrors in the lodge by someone or something. I guess that doesn't necessarily qualify as being a rule.
Also, given that the government official made the statement about not having a lot of time, it seems hard to believe that Claire would have been left alone instead of someone immediately leaving with her and taking her off the mountain. It's also hard to believe that Claire would have allowed herself to be left alone, given how frantically she scrambled from the bathroom and out of the house after rescue teams arrived.
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, nonetheless, and applaud your talent in writing/directing it. It just would have been more satisfying to have a bit more understanding at the end (at least with respect to whether the disappeared individuals are dead or alive and whether there is any chance of them ever resurfacing on our plane of existence).
But WHY did he say they didn't have much time? As though they know something about this place?
shareNo one disappears while being observed? But Jack and Claire are looking at Charlotte when she says she's going now, and then disappears. Does the fact that it was her reflection in the mirror - although I'm not sure it was - not "count?"
shareShe understood the rules and so lived a bit more. Like the one who hung themselves or the writers on the cabinet / mirror. That's my impression.
shareIt's implying and intelligence or a randomness to the 'rules'. I think it's meant to be an intelligence.
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