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Plot flaw (spoiler alert)?

posted 17 years ago by DavidJayB
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Did anyone share my disbelief at the sea-mine explosion? A mine that size exploding on the rocks would have left a huge crater, blown the old woman to pieces, and flattened the nearby houses.

[–] ohciaomanhattan 17 years ago

i dunno to be honest, i know it was a sea mine, but when people step on land mines they have been known to survive. It was obviously an old mine aswell.

[–] dontworry_behappy2001 17 years ago

yeah, it had been in the sea since the war (about 30 years)... and to be fair it did blow the girl completely to pieces, as they didnt even have a body to put in the coffin. and i think the old woman was actually quite far away, as she couldn't move very fast

bygones!

[–] DavidJayB 17 years ago

Landmines are often small and just designed to blow a foot off.

Sea-mines are huge and designed to sink ships. If all the explosive in a mine that size detonated (at least several hundred pounds of TNT or similar) it would make a huge explosion.

[–] badgerking10 17 years ago

It was obvious she was doomed as soon as her slutty mother chucked her out of the house. But, the sea mine idea struck me as far-fetched... I mean, I know the odd one gets washed up even now. But, I was just sat there, thinking: "I don't think so..!" Just an excuse for a dramatic bang, I reckon.

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[–] bogwart-1 16 years ago

So she and her mother were banging at the same time?

[–] phaneendrakumar 16 years ago

Nice sense of humor there, but not fitting the situation though..

[–] bogwart-1 16 years ago

One was coming, the other was going. And so the Great Wheel of Life turns.

[–] demolitionewe 16 years ago

@bogwart,-1, that was funny :-)
To all: Striking that the sea-mine did not explode earlier, i mean, it must
have hit several rocks before washing ashore?

[–] bogwart-1 16 years ago

I grew up on the East Coast of England and mines washing up were fairly common in those days. Every seaside town of any size had a defused mine with a collection box for the lifeboat service. Some of these mines looked every bit as bad as the one in the film.

That part of the film was set in the very early 1960s, so a lot of these mines had been in the sea for twenty years or so. Gradually their mooring chains would rust through, and they were just carried around by the wind and the currents. When these things were washed ashore they were highly dangerous because although the rust would in most cases have fused the horns you could never be sure whether some would still be working, as with the one that blew up in FoaF.

Quite often these things would be caught in trawl nets and sometimes even landed on the decks of trawlers. It really was a matter of pot-luck whether you survived your meeting with an unexploded mine.

[–] winnersdontlose 16 years ago

I think the hardest part to believe is that it washed up in that position with the seemingly only active detonator on the bottom of the mine.

[–] bogwart-1 16 years ago

Have you never in your life found that something happened or didn't happen which was hard to believe? Odd things happen. I survived a 75mph impact with a lamp post in a small car without a seat belt, without a scratch. Hard to believe, but it happened.

Life can be very difficult when you think as literally as that. You're spending all your time worrying about the hole, when you should be looking at the donut.

[–] SusurrusKarma 16 years ago

I didn't. Great scene, expertly directed and set up. Climax of the film.

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