So what do you think? Not sure if the movie suggested either way, but I cannot tell if this was simply an isolated incident involving only those people at the dinner party, or if it was some large-scale "escape from mirror world" attack, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers
shareWell, I don't know how far spread out the incident is. But it is not isolated. First off, start of the movie, Gina sees the x-ray of the guy with the heart on the right side of the chest and talks about how rare it is. Well that guy was a homicidal reflection of the original guy. And that was before the dinner party. Also her brother's neighbor who started to say that his wife was different. Also that woman in the subway who said the guy across from Gina was one of them and then trying to assess whether or not she was one. So I don't know how farspread this thing went, but it affected more than just the guests at the dinner party.
shareI'm not sure, because it's been a while since I've seen this movie... But didn't someone say that 1 in a 1000 people got the "heart on the wrong side" disorder? When they're looking at the x-ray. If that's the case, I think it's quite far spread already.
shareRemember the old lady on the subway was looking at people and saying "he's one" - that implies others are being affected.
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'Outbreak' in the extended family - instead of one only.
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The possible number of darkside hospital staff.
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The plaintive ambiguity of Daniel and Kate's upstairs neighbor... Remember the oranges falling down the stairs - bright orange on an almost b/w composition. It is quite a monochromatic film: orange and particularly red stick out as motifs. Also, it seems to me that things that have fallen or are dropped are also significant.
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Other possible darksider innuendo already mentioned (e.g.: woman on subway "he's one")
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From IMDB Factual errors:
In the beginning of the movie, when she is examining X-rays, she shows her assistant a case of Situs Inversus. This refers to people who are born with one or more organs reversed in position. She states that the condition is very rare, occurring only once in every 1000 births. In truth, Situs Inversus occurs once in every 10,000 births.
Or is the incident rate suddenly increasing? See #6. below.
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Dr. Robert Zachman: Gina, have you ever heard about Capgras Syndrome?
[She shakes her head]
Dr. Robert Zachman: It's a rare disorder, in which a person holds a belief that an acquaintance, usually a close family member or a spouse, has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. The condition is most cases is a direct result of brain lesion. With your permission, I would like to readmit you to hospital and get Dr. Kenric to do some further tests.
Later...
Dr. Myers (? neurologist?): ...Capgras Syndrome is rare, a hundred confirmed cases since 1923. Actually, eighty of those in the last ten years...
Another sudden surge in associated incidents? [association does not equal correlation]
Thanks wikipedia: Capgras syndrome/delusion is named after Joseph Capgras (1873-1950), a French psychiatrist who first described the disorder in 1923 in his paper co-authored by Reboul-Lachaux, on the case of a French woman who complained that corresponding "doubles" had taken the places of her husband and other people she knew.
7. The dogs, oh yes, gotta love the dogs!
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