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Why didn't Naomi Watts ask for Help when the Neighbors came with Boat?


Why didn't Naomi Watts ask for Help when the Neighbors came with the Boat?

- Totally unrealistic,

right ?

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This is the one thing that really bothers me about the whole movie. That and the fact that after Anne leaves the husband does not at least arm himself with a knife. I mean, he was in the kitchen as it was...and the couple does think the bad guys will return at any second yet neither she nor the husband consider grabbing a knife. True, odds are it would not have mattered in the end but surely they could have tried.

I wondered if the neighbors' scene would be changed or cut out altogether in the remake but no. My only explanation is that she was afraid Peter would kill the kid and husband if she did anything...but it honestly does not make sense. At all.

They could easily have overpowered Paul at that point, it was four to one! Paul wasn't even armed!

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ya, they sat around the house and began to dry out phones.
I would have turned all the lights off, and locked all the doors,
and then hid outside in a bush and watched the house, wife
watches back, and husband watches front. then waited till they
either left or surprised them with blunt objects to the back of the
head as they walked past me.



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Why didn't Naomi Watts ask for Help when the Neighbors came with the Boat?


At that point I think she was thinking/hoping that her family could work things out with these two men. And she didn't want her friends hurt. Maybe she also thought that the guy with her might run back to the house, kill her husband and son and try to escape.

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Well even if she had asked for help wouldn't the villains have just used their "rewind" powers? In the end, it didn't really matter if she asked for help or not. After seeing the whole movie and the "rewind" scene, we know that there was never any hope for any of the victims. All of the victims were doomed to die from the very beginning, and no matter how much we (the viewers of the movie) wanted them to survive, they were not going to. This was made pretty clear.

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