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This movie started its downward spiral


When they played Jim's 911 call and the 911 operator was completely nonchalant and sounded like she'd just taken vicodin.

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Yes because 911 operators always freak the hell out when they have to answer multiple distressing calls in a professional manner day in day out without overexciting the already distressed callers in need of reassurance.

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I guess some of us haven't called 911 before.

Operators aren't supposed to be emotional.

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The way Jim sounded was very strange. That was one of the reasons I thought he was the killer, because he doesn't sound as distressed as he probably should've been. I don't know if it was bad acting, a personality quirk that he was portraying, or just a red herring thrown to the audience to increase their suspicions of Jim.

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I would say it's the character. I mean, if you watch his interaction when he first meets them you get a sense that he's a little off. I think he sounded more confused then anything else.

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Yes, he was confused. At that moment he should have no reason (ther than the unexplained blood) to believe they were dead, just lost. He felt it odd they were nowhere, so he went back to call for help. He didn't know what happened to them.

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She was behaving like any regular 911 operator by staying calm. Also, Jim was just reporting that some people were missing. There's was no indication of murder at that point. Were you expecting the operator to exclaim "Oh my God, you can't find them? What are we gonna do?!!"

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