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There’s actually a lot there, much of it hidden in plain sight, but most people don’t see it because we’re used to watching movies passively. Eyes wide shut, so to speak.
YouTube has some good analysis of the movie if you’re interested.
Solomon’s behaviour was ambiguous and occasionally self-serving, but for the most part he was telling her what she needed to hear to get her to the mental state where she needed to be. The visions of the demons and the angel were the product of that mental state and part of her healing process.
If the flux capacitor only responds to movement in the direction that it’s facing, then for north to south travel, you would have to accelerate it by some other means to get to the required velocity of 67,088 mph.
The earth orbits the sun at a speed of 67,000 miles per hour, so the actual speed needed to achieve time travel in the movie is 67,088 mph. That’s assuming the car is travelling in the direction of earth’s orbit, and not taking account of earth’s rotational velocity, which is approximately 1,000 mph, depending on your distance from the equator.
So you’re right. “What did I tell you? Eighty eight miles per hour!” makes no sense.
In the Blu-ray edition you can see a thin black wire heading off from the back of the arrow to the top right of the frame.
As the commenter above suggests, It's probably a studio shot with the campfire scene projected behind her in reverse, then the whole shot is reversed. The effect is very well done. The tip of the arrow goes into a fold of her dress so you can't see the hole before the arrow "hits", and the actress's performance really sells it.
The train station scene is De Palma homaging Hitchcock (as usual). It's his version of the scene in "Rear Window" where James Stewart sends his girlfriend to find evidence of a murder in a neighbour's apartment while he watches through binoculars. Then he sees the murderer enter the apartment and catch her...
In the Hitchcock movie the hero is immobilised by a broken leg. In this movie there's no explanation of why Jack stays behind in the car, but De Palma does a good job of distracting you from thinking about it too much. The final act of the movie, from the murder of the prostitute to the fireworks display, is De Palma at his virtuosic best.
There isn’t a single likeable male character in the film. They’re all creeps, weirdos, cowards, serial killers, perverts, or the henchmen of perverts.
<blockquote>They ALL knew that death was not always imminent with these things, and their fate could even be worse than death, trapped as a shell or living husk for these things to mutate and grow...</blockquote>
That is an exact description of the “fate worse than death” facing the desperate characters in Aliens. Are you suggesting that movie would have worked better if somewhere in the third act Ripley had said, “Screw it, we can’t beat this alien queen” and shot Newt in the head with her pulse rifle?
Even if the ending of The Mist is how real people would behave in real life, it’s poor storytelling. It subverts our expectations of a movie hero by having him give up and choose death (including the death of his son) rather than fight to the bitter end. I admire Darabont for trying something different, but I don’t think it works from a story point of view. The way the cavalry turns up seconds later just seems perversely cruel, like a sick joke.
Blanchett was doing a Mika Brzezinski spoof.
His speech to Bond gives some clues about his masterplan:
"We both eradicate people to make the world a better place. I just want to be a little... tidier. Without collateral. I want the world to evolve, yet you want it to stay the same. Let's face it... I've made you redundant."
He seems to be saying that while Bond is content to repeatedly foil the plots of organisations like Spectre, his own goal is to eliminate them entirely, "to make the world a better place." The "without collateral" part is incorrect, of course, and Safin's views about which people need eradicating are unclear (MI6, perhaps, if they get in his way?). Which is why Bond has to stop him.
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