The part where Will finds the lover's photos of herself and Will. I don't know much about cheating, but got plenty of friends who are cheats, and they would NEVER do something that stupid (in fact they all only boing married women so they both have something to lose).
I know it's required for the plot to move, however that was the most unrealistic part of the whole movie. No cheater with half a brain (he runs/owns a company, right? thus he can't be that stupid) is that careless. Unless he has an explicit open marriage relationship with the wife, which I highly doubt from her reaction.
Even highly intelligent people have done worse things, such as left the pictures where their significant other was bound to find them. Look at Woody Allen. Years ago I read a Dear Abby letter about after a guy passed away, his family went through his effects and found letters and pictures indicating he lived this whole secret other life. It totally blew their entire concept of him and the letter advised anyone who has such things, make provisions for them to be destroyed on your death so your family never sees it!
What married man takes pictures of himself and his lover?!!!! [...] The part where Will finds the lover's photos of herself and Will.
Yeah, that would be pretty stupid, but that's not how it went. Here's what happened.
Will and Maya (his mistress) were off somewhere spending some quality time together. She either took the pics or got some helpful third party to do it (I don't remember whether they were true "selfies" or not); anyway, they were taken with her camera and ended up on her film.
Later she took the film to Sav-Mart, where good old Sy was waiting to develop them. He had a vague sense he had seen her before, doubtless because he was so obsessed with the Yorkins that he had studied every one of their photos he had ever processed and she had been in a few pictures of Will's company picnics and such. But in any case he certainly recognized Will in her photos, saw that he was necking with someone who was not Nina, and understood what it meant.
Sy, thoughtful dude that he was, ran off extra prints of the incriminating pictures and put them in Nina's packet of photos; and then Nina found them, not Will.
Careless? Maybe. But it's probably impossible for cheaters to cheat without someone seeing them together; hotel clerks, waiters, etc. 99% of the time those people either won't know they're cheating, or will know but won't care, or will consider it none of their business. Maya didn't know Sy at all; Will clearly didn't give a rat's ass about him; and even Nina didn't think of him as anything other than the chatty man who did her photos. If anyone's to blame it's Maya, and I'm sure that the next time she has a picture of herself advancing her career by sucking her boss's face she'll make sure to get it developed far away from where her boss lives; but as they say, you can't think of everything.
"Yeah, that would be pretty stupid, but that's not how it went. Here's what happened"
Seems you were the only person on this thread that paid attention to the movie. As you stated, the pictures were taken on his lovers camera, and she took them to be processed.
The married man would have no idea that:
A. His lover would take her photo's to the exact same store as his wife does
B. The photo guy would recognize and connect him in the photo's
C. The photo guy would care (be psycho) enough to get involved
I found this part of the plot to not be unrealistic at all.
Are you kidding? Loads of cheaters take photos without thinking of the consequences. Just like they send explicit texts/emails and then don't delete them - and the cheated-on spouse finds them by accident. Or not.
But yes, I think it *was* Maya's film which was being developed, wasn't it?
Since cell phones got cameras? Millions of them lol that's really not that unrealistic...people are caught that way all the time. STUPID, yes, but stupid is extremely realistic.
Some people do surprisingly stupid things, Jerry Springer paid hookers with a personal check. Hugh Grant got busted with hooker. Chuck Berry put hidden cameras in the bathrooms in his restaurant.
Believe me, it happens. We had a distant family member discover her brother was cheating by going through a packet of newly developed photos. Some men think with their (bleep) instead of their brain.