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Goof?

posted 15 years ago by CookieDragon
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I found something that may have been missed my the producers, or maybe it's just me! Haha.

When Gina is at Stephan's apartment, she's goes into the bathroom and checks out her wound on her head in the mirror. This is the scene where her double (in the mirror) moves like she was gonna stab the real Gina as she moved from the mirror. The thing I spotted is that since we're actually watching the double (of course we don't know that until later) checking her forehead, then who is in the mirror? Why would the 'reflection' act that way?

Another thing that I've just thought of is, after the car crash, did 'Double Stephan' know that Gina was in fact 'Double Gina'? Would the doubles know if they were looking at an original or double? With Gina having found the real Stephan's dead body, then locking herself in the bathroom because the fake Stephan is after her, I'm guessing the the fake Stephan thought she was still the real Gina.
Does this make sense?

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[–] LooyCyphr 15 years ago

Well, the first "goof" isn't one in my opinion, because it was a dream, the knife-scene 'woke' her up. As dream logic goes, it's believable that she would dream something like this. Meaning that the ghostly invaders can dream just like humans.

The second now is really interesting. So, she was the fake Gina... then why would the fake stephan be hunting her?
Maybe
1: the doubles are not as smart as humans, generally.
2: maybe all he wanted to do was look her in the eye and say "Hey, what's wrong with you, remember plan 9, remember plan 9!!" But well, she just kept running off.
3: Maybe he just sensed that this fakey would unwillingly sabotage plan 9 due to her lack of memory.
4: These are not zombies that just recognise and don't eat each other (which makes me wonder anytime). Maybe due to her lost memories she forgot about plan 9s mission strategy #119'455-R going "Look with disturbingly dark eyes and stare strangely, so we can recognise each other".

Anyway, I liked the film while it was running, but I'll soon forget. It was solid stuff to me.

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[–] catlebrity 15 years ago

It's weird that she would forget mission strategy #119'455-R, as that was gone over in detail during our final training session right before we broke through the mirrors. There was even a little pamphlet about it!

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[–] dalinian 14 years ago

@LooyCyphr - of your alternatives, my take on this issue was similar to your #4.

For the doppelgänger's stealthy parasitic takeover plan (your "plan 9" metaphor) to succeed socially, it must remain undetected by the host human society, ie: us - both as the film's audience and the London society portrayed in the film. But part of that plan would necessarily involve doppelgängers recognising each other, in ways too subtle to be detected by the average member of the host human society, eg: anything from unremarkable micro-gestures or facial expressions, to telepathy (your mission strategy #119'455-R metaphor). In this light, the elder woman on the tube believed she could detect a doppelgänger ("He's one!") - perhaps through subconscious intuition, or through conscious pattern recognition, or ... she was just acting out a psychotic paranoia symptom; we haven't enough to go on to decide which.

After doppelgänger-Gina's amnesia-inducing car crash, the doppelgänger self-aware conciousness (including plan 9, mission strategy #119'455-R, et al) was 'knocked' into her subconscious, only to re-emerge in a fragmented way over the course of the film. Since only the underlying original human self-aware conciousness of 'being Gina' was available to her:
1. she temporarily believed herself to be human-Gina; and
2. she failed to signal to other doppelgängers that she was indeed a doppelgänger herself (or those signals emerged in a corrupt fashion).

Since all doppelgänger-Stephan could detect was human-Gina (1: missing #119'455-R), or because he recognised her as a non-self-aware doppelgänger-Gina (2: corrupted #119'455-R), he acted to take out this threat to the doppelgänger's plan 9.

dalinian

[–] Panpl 14 years ago

There is the possibility that fake-Stefan sees that Gina is fake, but he also sees that the fake-Gina doesn't remember a thing. She's a liability, especially since there's a dead body in the attic. As a fake she wouldn't have done a thing, but as a confused semi-human or something she'd probably run to the police and ruin fake-Stefan's taking over of real-Stefan's life. I'd imagine that to be why fake-Stefan runs after semi-fake-Gina. To stop that dumb, absent-minded doppelganger bitch from blowing his cover.