Huge Inconsistencies in Plot
Didn't any of the number of you who profess to love this movie notice all of the major inconsistencies in it? I had a hard time with it because it couldn't stick to its story.
Here are just a few examples:
Paul tells Dora that he never had a cat because he couldn't have pets in his building. What? At the opening of the show he lives in a rural community with his parents. They strongly imply that he has never been away from home. What the hell? When did he live in a 'building'.
Dora tells Alcott that she's 18. Then she's working in a bar. Now, I get that the owner was a sleazeball and she could have lied or he could have not cared. Then later she's trying to get emancipated from her parents but she is already 18. How old is she really.
When Dora misses the train home after her bar shift, she goes through an elaborate plan of calling her mother who actually calls the number back. This leads one to believe that her mother is very protective and does this all the time. Then later, Dora spends the night passed out at Paul's and then another night sleeping over there. Don't you think her mother would have been freaking out? He tells her to call her mother. If she did that, wouldn't she have called back like she did at the train station? Then she goes and stays with Alcott. What is her mother doing all this time?
Why does she list Alcott as her emergency contact if she has an overprotective mother somewhere in the area? If she has enough of a relationship with her mother to call ehr and tell her where she is, don't you think she would list her as her emergency contact?
Does Dora call Alcott, a man that she is having sex with and supposedly in a relationship with, by his last name? Isn't that a wee bit strange? They talk about her listing Prof. Alcott as her contact and Paul writes Alcott on the card for the flowers. Even in that relationship, one would think she would call him by his first name or have some sort of pet name for him.
Paul leaves to get pizza and when he returns, Alcott is there. How did he get there? Did Dora phone him? Wouldn't everything leading up to this make us believe that he would not come and get her? He had already told her he did not want her to move in with him. Why did he change his mind?
Alcott says to Dora that since he's being blackmailed by the guys, he might as well go all the way (ie. have Dora move in with him). How does that make any sense at all? If he is so concerned about getting caught that he will give students A's just so that it doesn't come out, don't you think he would a) not let Dora move in with him b) dump her right away seeing as he doesn't seem to really care about her anyway?
How in the hell does Paul know how to rescue a dying kitten? He said he wasn't allowed to have pets. Now it does seem that he grew up on a farm but farm cats are not the kind to have babies near anyone. He had not worked at the clinic long enough to have learned that.
The list goes on. Can anyone explain any of these to me?
The biggest one is: why in God's name would Dora put up with Alcott? There is not one moment of care or concern shown in their relationship. Even a girl without an ounce of self-esteem will not put up with that kind of extreme disrespect and abuse unless there is a payoff. They didn't show any payoff for her.
That's why this movie stinks. It makes no sense at all.