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Three issues

posted 3 years ago by Jes' Sayin' (6398)
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1. The "parlay" was completely unbelievable. Why would these hyper-analysts include in a bet something that they knew absolutely nothing about? It was plainly just formula writing: the girl and the father are the two most important people in the protagonist's life so they each need to have a big win for the film to be able to finish and the parlay is going to enable that. And it was so obviously what was going to happen from that point forward.

2. Putting two people with serious mental illness difficulties in a relationship is probably not that hot an idea. I know a couple like that who moved away from everyone to go live in the woods because "nobody understands us" and one of them ended up committing suicide after the other one completely missed all the signs.

3. Needed more Julia Stiles, definitely!

[–] Boromir (10061) 3 years ago

1. I think he understand this professional contest so the judges will not feel sorry for the contestants. He also know that Pat just now back from mental health facility and probably didn't know nothing about dancing. I also suspect he had prejudices about both Pat and Tiffany because of the mental problems they suffered from. Also it was double bet, the Eagles and the dance contest. Overall, I don't think this bet is illogical.

2. This is a false analogy: you take one case and learn from him about another situation. Not every mental illness is the same, there are many factors, some of them related to the character and dynamics between them you don't know if it's dangerous relationships until you deep digging their relationships.

[–] rex (2828) 2 years ago

hyper - analysts liked twisting the knife like the lady said, he wanted to profit from the epic fail