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The car crash (SPOILER)

posted 9 years ago by cfr70
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When she had the 2nd car accident at the end of the film, was it a hit & run?! A pickup with lights on top apparently hit her off the road and stopped for a few seconds....and then just continued on and left her there....to die?!

It just seemed so out of sync with the rest of the film....all I could think of for the whole final scenes was "Why did that truck just leave her there and drive off?!"...What kind of people would do such a horrible thing?!

It was so much of a distraction for me that it ruined the final acts of the movie because it's all I was thinking of.

[–] pauli_gomez 8 years ago

Yep, I thought the same, I was surprised by the hit. For a moment even I thought Harrison Ford wife had intended to kill her in a crazy jealousie moment.

I am glad I was not the only one unhappy with that particular scene. I understand the narrative reasons for the accident and for her to be alone, but they could have done it better.

btw, it's weird Adaline survived her first accident and kept driving like a crazy one.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6075) 10 months ago

It saved the movie a lot of trouble explaining who the other driver was, what happened to him and so on, allowing the movie to concentrate on the main narrative.

[–] davebuffalo (3132) 10 months ago

Or they could've shown the other driver dead, and she would be alone.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6075) 10 months ago

Probably implies of scene of checking whether really dead, the problem of assigning blame and all of that.

But this way, most of the problem goes away, literally.

Reminds me of an old joke:
"How do you like my picture?"
Looking at a completely blank piece of paper, "what is it?"
"A cow eating grass"
"Where's the grass?"
"The cow ate it."
"Where's the cow?"
"She left. Why should she stay around?"