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the part where I had to suspend belief

posted 9 years ago by Hanz-Willhelm2
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When he drove his moped bike off the cliff. We could never see how far down it was...clouds were always there but it was at least 50 feet or more from the top down to the clouds. He looked out that glass window in the side of the mountain (which was downstairs and seemed to be one story below the surface of the flat mountain top) and he could see some tree down there. It looked several stories below the window.

I just kind of ignored that jump and went along with it but it seems like it would be a fatal fall...serious injuries at least. They treated it as if he jumped seven or eight feet.

Übung macht den Meister

[–] Dust_Indotex 9 years ago

Jonas says in the voice-over that surviving the jump was a miracle.

[–] Panpl 9 years ago

Considering right after that he climbed mountains wearing only his Air Jordans I guess after that point we were just watching some sort of a supernatural Jesus parable.

[–] al_and_tam 9 years ago

Then he got dropped off a cliff into a waterfall, holding a baby. They both miraculously survived. The baby also survived being schlepped across a desert and a snowstorm with no apparent water, no shelter and no food other than what was in that baby bottle...which came from...where? Yeah, I'd say there was some pretty serious suspension of disbelief here. Even the simple fact that the baby pod-thingy seemed to attach conveniently to the motorcycle. Necessary to the plot but not likely. haha

[–] VashTStamp 9 years ago

I do agree there where some missing key elements, but I cannot necessarily regard them as mistakes on the director's part. I feel as though we as an audience are expected to fill in a few gaps with our imagination. For example, perhaps the baby pod contained multiple baby bottles and blankets. I also don't see it to be far of a stretch for the bikes to have standardized carrying methods adapted to baby pods, crates, etc. It was a little excessive towards the end of the movie, but at the same time I feel as though it can be a little tiring to be spoon fed minute details in movies. I'm kind of surprised the movie scored so low, I would at least rate it in the 7's. At least a solid 7.5 I would say.

[–] Yabeina (188) 7 years ago

Yeah, the whole surviving the desert AND snow, overnight, yet, AND then finding a sled at the top of the mountain, I was just going "WTF jumped the shark" over and over. Not that the first scenario from the start was believable either, but at least it was a futuristic high-tech world, one where you can control the number of occupants and kill of unsuitable infants. But the wild natural world isn't so convenient.

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (2376) 5 months ago

That and the fall into the water. I wondered how the baby could survive that.