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When are filmmakers going to learn to do even a teensy bit of research?

posted 13 years ago by UltimaGabe
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Ever since I learned what it's like to actually work in a hospital, I've noticed that EVERY SINGLE MOVIE AND TV SHOW that has even a single scene take place in a hospital has no idea whatsoever how hospitals work.

Patients can't simply get up and walk around a hospital without anybody noticing. And you certainly can't walk into a comatose patient's room and pull their plug without someone rushing into the room and trying to save the patient (not to mention having you arrested).

And if someone was in a coma since childhood, they wouldn't simply sit up and be perfectly fine- they'd have to go through physical therapy to be able to sit up, speak, move the majority of their muscles (which would have atrophied a great deal in the years they'd been comatose), not to mention the fact that they'd have tubes going in every orifice keeping them alive.

Yeah, yeah, it's a movie. But come on. Would it hurt to spend five minutes asking someone if there's anything you should know before filming a scene in an important location?

[–] shante-baker 12 years ago

Even though you pointed it out, I don't think you get that it's a movie...

No one noticed because in that sequence, no one else existed in the hospital. Throughout the movie, didn't you notice that no one else was around when people died? Like when the girl disappeared at the motel, she was just talking to one of the employees there, and was standing just feet from her friends behind the door, yet no one heard her screams.

So it only makes sense that at the hospital no one came rushing over when she got out of bed, or checked when her friend's life support stopped. No one else existed in that plan, because it was happening in her mind, I presume.

Also, we're to assume that they switched lives, meaning that comatose girl was never in a coma, and our lead girl was the one that had been in a coma all those years. Even if she had been in a coma previously, we don't know how much time had passed between her friend flying over the roof and that moment.

Sorry for lack of name usage; none of the characters stuck out to me at all.

[–] abstract-sunflower 12 years ago

I don't think they did switch lives. When Angela came out of her coma, the nun said, "It's a miracle," because she had been in a coma for the past six years and she suddenly woke up. Sandy was now in a coma because she fell off the roof of the hospital.