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What is with the window?

posted 17 years ago by gbpaperboy
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Why is there a window in the shower, at the beginning of the movie.Can DARYL not have some privacy?

[–] blackbirdsr71 17 years ago

For a child care centre it is probably standard building code practice, to have a window, to try and prevent a child from harming themselves, or others.

Also note that the woman caring for Daryl, turns the water off from outside the shower, so a child couldn't burn themselves by turning the hot water up.

It is also allows the film to show the audience that Daryl is a normal human being (apart from the cpu in is head, which we don't know about yet.) and not some metal body machine.

[–] ncrawford82 16 years ago

Thank you. I was wondering about that myself for a while but I figured since the woman was a nurse and it was clear that no one else was watching him I figured it wasn't like she was filming him or something.
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[–] asuviolinist 16 years ago

I always wondered that too when I was growing up watching this. Makes you wonder if that woman was watching him the whole time.

[–] LextheXFile 15 years ago

I think its standard procedure at child intake centres like that. It might keep them from hurting themselves (like a previous poster said) or if they have a medical condition that is undiagnosed and fall down and injure themselves (ie: epilepsy) or bruises from abuse, etc....

What I thought was weird was when the nurse comes in after and lifts up his arms, as if she is smelling his arm pits or something. That was really weird. It's been a while since I've seen it so I don;'t remember the scene vividly but considering that most of the kids there are runaways or from abusive homes, it stands to reason that they would be checked over for bruises/scars/injuries before being placed in foster care.

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