When Alice dropped all of the pills on the floor, did her caretaker or anyone in the family realize what she was doing? I don't think she'd have the presence of mind to clean them up. When Alec Baldwin asked "Do you still want to be here?" in the yogurt shop in the next scene, was he asking because they'd found the pills?
And when you tell a story, have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener.
My take is he was just asking her about a place that used to be her favorite, but I might be wrong.
shareWow, that's a good theory. Ya, later in the movie when they were eating the ice cream, he does ask her "Do you still want to be here?". Now that you pointed that out, I would definitely believe her husband found the pills on the floor of the bathroom. Scary.
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I've seen some other posts where people think his question meant that he was asking her if she wanted to let go and die -- Considering her mind was going and she was having trouble with words, I would suggest that a more straight forward question would have been appropriate. Indeed, if this is what he meant, it was way too subtle for me to catch. I thought he (obviously?) meant that he was going to Minnesota and was asking if she still wanted to live here, because she may have reconsidered and decided it would be okay for her to move. However, she interpreted his question as staying here in the yogurt shop until she was done.
shareHard to imagine he didn't discover what she had been up to.
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John most certainly knew about it. Alice mentioned the questions to him when she lost her phone and at the latest when she dropped the pills he would've been informed. In the book, towards te very end he asks her the three questions that she used to answer every morning and she is unable to answer any of them. I think he was trying to see if she really isn't herself anymore and if perhaps he should give her euthanasia although he never goes through with it.
shareSomeone would have cleaned up the pills, but they wouldn't necessarily have known what she was going to do with them. However, I think someone in the family would have been monitoring her computer at that point, for her safety, and because privacy was no longer advisable, and they would have found the folder with the pill instructions.
shareHow would it have been for her safety to monitor her computer?. I don't see any reason.
shareIn the book, these scenes occur in the opposite order. John asks if she wants to be here. I assumed he probably found the file on her computer. That, or he just knew that she wouldn't want to live that way.
The suicide attempt takes places months after that exchange. In the book, it is not a video but a letter. Alice forgets what she is doing when she gets upstairs.