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Where were the police?

posted 11 years ago by amkus
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This is something that bothered me most about this film.

Gordon kills his family and goes to work for the next week as normal.

Gordon has to be the #1 suspect in this double homicide. Why weren't the cops interviewing the people that would have seen him most recently? Friends, family, coworkers? It's not like he was trying to conceal his location.

Does nobody watch the news? There's no way a mother and child would be brutally murdered without it making the news. Yet none of the crew show up one day and say "Wow Gordon, your family was just horribly murdered and stuff".

Also at the end where Jeff's getting charged by Gordon covered in blood and wielding a sharp instrument, all he can think to say is "sorry I ate your oreos"?

[–] StarskyandChinaHutch 11 years ago

The police was swallowed by a plot hole.

[–] max-silver 11 years ago

Given the timeframe, it's likely no one had noticed they were missing when Gordon murdered them, but when their neighbours don't see them over the next few days, people would likely start asking questions and call the police.

Also, his daughter is still an infant and not yet in preschool, and his wife stayed at home to take care of their daughter, so their disappearance wouldn't be noticed immediately.

As for Jeff, most likely he was coming down from an adrenaline rush brought on by a nyctophobia attack.

[–] kurt-2000 11 years ago

Sometimes when people die no one notices for weeks.

[–] TheManInOil 11 years ago

How would anyone know they were dead?

"I'll book you. I'll book you on something. I'll find something in the book to book you on."

[–] Danimal_77 11 years ago

Did you even think this through before you typed out this post of yours? Why would anyone call the police when no one knew that a woman and her baby were dead? It had only been a few days. It would only have been "on the news" as you put it, if it had BEEN REPORTED. It clearly had not. We are to assume that the wife didn't work and took care of the new born baby. Sadly, they were lying dead in the kitchen for days, having been butchered by Gordon, while Gordon had not been back home (he could not face what he did) and therefore, no one KNEW what had happened, other than Phil and Jeff asking him how his wife/daughter is doing.

Again, did you even give any of this much thought? This is not 1952 where neighbors knock on each other's doors for sugar, or the milk man and newspaper boy come around to collect their money. This was 2001, where everyone minded their own business. Pretty self-explanatory.

[–] LadyRobynSnow 11 years ago

Wow, patronising.

[–] clockworkorange13 11 years ago

totally agree. how the hell would it be on the news if no one even noticed they were missing. i mean a human corpse can ride the subway for 2 days in new york city before anyone bothers to notice and report it.

[–] xalen 11 years ago

Same question asked of every horror movie ever made.

[–] PhineasAppleby 10 years ago

The neighbors may not notice but what about family and friends?

[–] jesseredwards 8 years ago

You know, the basic plot of the film was losely based on a true story. A man came home and murdered his wife and left her organs in the backyard. He too went back to work like nothing had happened. It was a couple of days before people noticed something was wrong. I'm sure the cops find Gordon in the end. If nothing else someone from the city would have to to see if the job had been finished by Monday if promised.

[–] jesseredwards 8 years ago

*as