What annoys me is that they didn't try to move the guy with a wounded leg. They could easily have made a stretcher to carry him on, and they have two young men to carry the stretcher. Seriously, you just need two long sticks and some fabric to make a stretcher. It was 20 km out of the city. You can do that in 3 hours with a brisk pace, and they had the whole day to do it.
You're using logic, which is not allowed to be used in movies like these. If logic were allowed, the movie would not exist.
shareI've been told that they keep track of tour groups entering Priyapat, making sure that nobody gets left in the town for too long. If the tour bus broke down, a rescue vehicle would have come in hours.
shareUri said he operates his business solely. They also snuck into the city without anyone knowing. Additionally, the city is named Pripyat.
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Wounded leg man did mention that it would take more than one man to carry him, thus slowing the group down. They were most likely under the impression that only animals (the kinds we know), were outside. It wasn't a bad idea for the uninjured to go for help, then to return for those left behind.
He would slow them down, but not so much that they couldn't make the trip in a day. I know from personal experience that carrying someone on a stretcher (they can be 4 people carrying each handle) for 20 km is doable when you have all day.
It is also possible to deal with those dogs when you're in a gathered group, and better to take him with you than leave him for the dog pack with only his gf as bodyguard.
Make a stretcher? Out of what? And what if they get attacked by the dogs? You think they might be attracted to the scent of a guy's festering leg wound being carried slowly through the woods?
sharewith a leg wound bleeding like crazy he would of suffered blood loss unless the wound is wrapped up. if you could make a stretcher where would you get the parts to have a makeshift one let alone these are city people i don't think they would of known how to make one. second not counting the wild dogs would of also be attracted to the blood sent but other animals would and lets factor in the mutants since they know they are here they would of hunted them down.
shareoh let alone if they did carry him out and walk back to the back way, they don't have any food or water with them and they would not want to drink the contaminated water here and the body would exclude energy and calories and they would be tired, hungry and dehydrated.
shareIn the space of a few hours? Humans can survive 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food.
shareThat's what I thought! They were so quick to give up! lol
shareThey could have made a stretcher out of parts of seats ripped out of the van. Then again, they all should have started walking right away in daytime (with Uri) right away!
"Get away from her, you BITCH!!!"
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If I was the guy with the chewed-up leg, the last thing I would want is to travel via hand-held stretcher. As soon as those feral dogs charged the group, the first thing those friends of his would do is drop the stretcher and take off. And he'd become a 180-pound serving of Alpo.
sharejenvan17, is your signature line from Aliens?
Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King
I get what you're saying, but it was safer for the group to leave him there.
Assisting someone with ambulation who has a leg wound, is actively bleeding, and in pain is an extremely difficult task. It's hard doing that with people who didn't just experience a trauma. They're all scared, panicked, don't know what to do or expect. Just like in any emergency situation, make sure the scene is safe first before intervening. If you don't, that's one more person that needs to be rescued. In the case of this film, the entire group instead of just Chewed Leg and Chewed Leg's Girlfriend.
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I hate when they do that in movies.
shareRiiiight, so that when they pass the rapid dogs (which they inevitably would, and do literally less than 3 minutes after leaving the car), the wounded leg guy suffers an awful death of being mauled alive, because everyone else would've dropped that stretcher in a heatbeat and ran, with the exception of his brother, who would have just gotten eaten along with him.
And again, how are they going to make a stretcher? Rip the fabric off the car seats? With what? Where are scissors, where is a knife, where is tape, where is a sewing needle, where is crazy glue? These stupid suggestions for why "The characters are morons" are always made by people who themselves seem to not have paid attention. Same kind of morons who watched The Ruins and called the main characters stupid for not making a catapult in the middle of a pyramid and haul vines at the Mayans. Just dumb logic.
lol, I agree completely.
Except that The Ruins was an actually dumb movie, much worse than Chernobyl Diaries.
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Exactly. It's crazy.
Like you say, where does this magical stretcher come from? Even the most basic of stretcher needs to have a frame and a material that can support a decent weight. You're not likely to find that in a car. Even less likely when you have no kinds of cutting tools. You cant take anything from the buildings as Uri had mentioned about radiation and people taking stuff getting sick - you'd imagine it'd be even worse for a kid with a fairly bad open wound.
As for the dogs - you need to look at it from the perspective of those characters. It's easy to say "they're just wild dogs, they're not wolves". But up to that point in the film, they believe dogs have injured someone so badly that they can't walk and taken down Uri, who they repeatedly refer to as 'Big guy' because of his stature, while he has a gun.
Even if they could magic up a stretcher, even if the dogs aren't going to kill you - you need to avoid them. By the time they make the stretcher, the slowing down carrying someone will cause you, going 'off road' to avoid the dogs and the fact that you have no idea where you are going - it all adds up to a very, very long time.
If anything, a criticism I would accept is that the decisions they made were TOO sensible all the time.