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So many clues given away...

posted 8 years ago by wilcinema
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1) Locked doors
2) Windows with bars
3) A video of a woman while she's dying
4) The uxoricide
5) Eden slapping her friend's face
6) No phone coverage
7) No wifi
8) The nympho whispering weird stuff to Will
9) Miguel's birthday celebrated a week or so in advance
10) The pills
11) Two strangers showing up at an old friends' reunion

And yet no one but Will (and Claire) suspects anything, or even feels freaked out enough to leave. How's that even possible?

And the viewer is also offered more hints that the hosts are completely nuts: lighting up the red lantern (it was soooo clearly a signal for someone else) and the video of the cult leader (and btw, you open up a laptop and there you have a video of someone saying it's doomsday, the only big flaw in an otherwise very good direction).

This movie was saved by the direction but the script is just mediocre.

[–] ryoko_the_spacepirate1 8 years ago

I feel like alot of the clues given could be taken either way.
1,2,6,7 could be ambigious.

the girl could be there swinging partner and just happens to be there the guy was odd though he was wierd .

"I think I liked it better when I thought Sylar ate brains." -Warriorrenegade

[–] FrozenNachos 8 years ago

Would it have gone the other way, nothing threatening happening, these would only have been paranoid suspicions. You already think you know what will happen therefore all these signs are dead give-aways to you.

Most of the clues you're pointing out is either not inherently suspicious, or they are explained in some way.

Remember most of the guests do feel awkward or freaked out about the whole thing, but they conclude the hosts are just being odd.
I'm sure you've have similair encounters, where the setting just doesn't feel right or there's some details really bothering you, and it turns out to be nothing at all.
What you're failing to do is to put yourself into the characters shoes. You're watching a movie and you're expecting something to happen. They're just at a dinner party, albeit a rather odd one.

I for one thought the movie handled it pretty good. I didn't really know what was going to happen, although I suspected. BUT it could just as well have been Wills paranoid suspicions and this is what made it so great to me.

[–] uhrdavid 8 years ago

It's very difficult to imagine anyone suspecting that their closest friends were plotting to kill them, even if that was the obvious answer. It is in our nature to not suspect the worst from the people we care about. however, they were doing their best to make everyone there uncomfortable. It is surprising to me that they all didn't leave. Speaking of that, i don't remember them revealing what happened to the woman who did decide to leave. I assume the one cult member killed her, but I don't remember getting confirmation.

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[–] jdellwo 8 years ago

None of those except 3 & 4 were unusual. I've been to dinners/places with all or most of those. 3&4 were odd but not too odd.

[–] nkavy71488 8 years ago

They put so many hints to actually throw you off. They want you to think that it would be too obvious. They want you to think that all the MANY clues pointing at the reveal are a distraction for something else. ie. Will having a breakdown, or whatever.