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Why? -- Stephan's dog; Stephan's leaking ceiling


When (mirror-)Stephan brings (mirror-)Gina to his flat after the accident, the dog (I presume it belongs to real-Stephan) only greets her, not him. Later it even bites (mirror-)Stephan's hand, clearly recognizing that this is not its real owner.
However, it's also not the real Gina there, yet the dog quite happily accepts her, when, really, it should've been equally hostile towards both of them.

The other thing that really bugged me was the water dripping from the ceiling in Stephan's bathroom. The water is leaking from a broken(?) pipe upstairs -- which just happens to be where mirror-Stephan stashed real-Stephan's body, because otherwise mirror-Gina in her amnesiac state wouldn't have found said body.. how convenient....!
Or maybe we were supposed to infer that the broken pipe is a direct result of how real-Stephan was murdered? I guess the scene that would have clarified this may have been cut -- in favor of some more slow-mo's of the car crash...


Tricking the audience is a pretty cheap move. And I say this even though I sort of liked the movie all in all.

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When (mirror-)Stephan brings (mirror-)Gina to his flat after the accident, the dog (I presume it belongs to real-Stephan) only greets her, not him. Later it even bites (mirror-)Stephan's hand, clearly recognizing that this is not its real owner.


The dog might only of recognized its not the real Stefan because he saw him kill the real one.

The other thing that really bugged me was the water dripping from the ceiling in Stephan's bathroom. The water is leaking from a broken(?) pipe upstairs -- which just happens to be where mirror-Stephan stashed real-Stephan's body, because otherwise mirror-Gina in her amnesiac state wouldn't have found said body.. how convenient....!
Or maybe we were supposed to infer that the broken pipe is a direct result of how real-Stephan was murdered? I guess the scene that would have clarified this may have been cut -- in favor of some more slow-mo's of the car crash...


I thought that was weird too.... How many houses have water pipes going into an attic like that... And how did it break, the idea Stefan went up into the attack to get attacked seems odd (especially since he had at least one shoe on, and one beside him).

And if there was a water pipe going into the attic, you would think there would be a shutoff valve. Those take a few short seconds to turn off....

The entire scene was odd.

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