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Why was Brendan sick?

posted 15 years ago by invisigothx11
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For the second half of the movie we saw Brendan becoming increasingly physically weak. Was there a reason for this?

[–] Breesus_Christ_Superstar 15 years ago

I'm just going to guess extreme exhaustion and emotional stress, due to not sleeping, chasing people down, and his ex-girlfriend dying.

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[–] saint665 15 years ago

There's all that, but Laura said he had swallowed a lot of blood (having had the stuffing kicked out of him twice in a very short period of time) which also heavily contributed to it.

I also suspect it was added as a diversionary red herring. First time I saw it, I figured he had been poisoned with some bad brick.

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[–] joerobguy 15 years ago

Yeah, physical exhaustion and the cold climate. Most nights, it seems, he stays up, so he gets very little sleep, and then during the day he gets his ass kicked.

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[–] There_Is_No_Sayid 15 years ago

He takes several pretty serious beatings over the course of the film most notably from Tug and Brad Bramish. He's also operating on little or no sleep over the course of several days

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[–] psdhart 15 years ago

That is what I thought too

[–] love_platipus 14 years ago

He takes several pretty serious beatings over the course of the film... He's also operating on little or no sleep.)

I was gonna say. Internal bleeding, probably. And such.

[–] gerasp3 14 years ago

This is not something that is even close to being directly pointed to in the movie, but I started to wonder if maybe he was also a heroin user and he was starting to go through withdrawal symptoms.

Just a theory.

[–] camel-wides 14 years ago

i had thought the exact same thing, but saw nothing to support it that i could lay my finger on.

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 12 years ago

The beatings were indeed taking their toll on Brendan, he was suffering from internal bleeding as well.

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[–] lordtufty 12 years ago

Internal bleeding

[–] wiiztec 10 years ago

I thought he was poisioned with that orange juice he had at the pin's place

[–] VioleTAK 10 years ago

Its the repeated beatings he takes.
I thought it was very obvious, and well felt throughout the film.
It felt like he was carrying the world on his shoulders.