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1st half extremely realistic, second half, not so much

posted 13 years ago by Kolobos51
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The first half was completely believable. I've seen in my own personal life where young women are waaaay too trusting of people they met online. It's entirely possible that Megan would have gone to meet Josh where she did and ended up getting abducted.

It kind of comes apart in some minor ways in the second half. Amy took Megan's disappearance way too well. She didn't even cry, which I think was at least partly because the actress couldn't cry on cue, hence the unconvincing rape scene later on.

Also, I can't believe the cops wouldn't put some kind of surveillance on Amy after she came forward and was threatened by the abductor even if they were still thinking it may have been a hoax and a runaway. Additionally, Amy parents didn't think to discourage her habit of taking long walks by herself after Megan's disappearance! Really?!

Lastly, the barrel thing. First, I really think Amy would have been psychologically broken by being shoved into the barrel with Megan's decomposing corpse and not capable of coherently continuing to beg for her life. Also, I'm pretty sure Amy would have suffocated in the barrel pretty quickly. Dead bodies do putrefy after a while and Megan was pretty decomposed. It would have been toxic in there but she didn't seem to even have trouble breathing.

Regardless, I think this is a pretty valid movie about internet predators that should be shown to teenagers.

S.F.W.

[–] nobodies666 13 years ago

Well they thought Megan ran away so why did Amy need protection in polices opinion?

Also why is the last 22 minutes realistic to you?

Where I go. My spirit is free, I'm coming home. Where I go. Remember me but let me go.-Lacuna

[–] Kolobos51 13 years ago

I said the second half wasn't. That includes that last 22 minutes, where "Josh" has access to a pretty impressive torture dungeon and dumps Amy's camera at the exact spot he snatched her from to name two more problems I had with it.

S.F.W.

[–] trstthelord 13 years ago

I was wondering how he possibly got Amy into that barrel. It certainly didn't look like it had the room to fit both Amy and Megan. Am I the only one that thought this?

[–] Kolobos51 13 years ago

I don't know. Amy was a pretty small girl. I do think the barrel would have been rumbling around a lot more instead of just sitting there.

S.F.W.

[–] nobodies666 13 years ago

2 girls were in it.

Where I go. My spirit is free, I'm coming home. Where I go. Remember me but let me go.-Lacuna

[–] BlackMagikWoman 12 years ago

even though i think it was a terrible "lost footage" film, the first half was a good setup. however the second half was lame. josh was a terrible actor, first of all. and second, whomever wrote this movie must have been living on mars the past 3 decades, because there is no way amy would have been:

1) broadcasted on the news like that
2) left alone without any FBI surveillance (they didn't even take control over her computer in order to find josh? HELLO????)

also, if the 2 photos of megan surfaced from a fetish site, ummm, HELLO AGAIN??!!!-- i'm sure there are brilliant computer forensic people in the FBI who could have traced where the photos came from in a heartbeat.

this was an awful film. it went from being a good thriller, to just a sloppily written/directed piece of exploitative filth.

[–] lillavindu 11 years ago

more vice versa in my case.

[–] oh_no_mrbill 10 years ago

Just in regard to the barrel thing, I think you're underestimating the power of the human survival instinct. Even in the most devastating situations, we still fight for our lives as hard as we possibly can. Good point about the decomposing body, she probably couldn't have survived that long if the barrel was airtight. Maybe it had a little sliver open somewhere? That doesn't really bother me. The final 22 minutes is so tense and effective, I'm more than willing to look past a tiny plothole like "how long it would really have taken her to suffocate".

And you thought the rape scene was unconvincing?? I thought she was brilliant in that scene. She started out in terrible pain, shock, fear, betrayal, sorrow, then finally total detachment from the situation. She nailed basically every stage of trauma, I thought it was her best scene by far.

[–] FoldingStars 10 years ago

The fact that both girls were supposed to be inside that barrel made me laugh, providing a bit of light relief to the whole grim ending. You cannot fit a live human being into a barrel that is already filled by a corpse!

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[–] askmonroville 9 years ago

And you would know this how again? So just how many bodies CAN you fit into a bright blue barrel?

[–] InkedInBlood 8 years ago

Depends on if the barrel contains hydrofluoric acid or not.

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