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I thought about that and I came up with this: straight after he heard the quick shriek and Tupperware breaking,
he then saw the 'balcony couple' rushing to get inside with their mattress and sheets because there was a sudden downpour of rain. As they were rushing in, the hubby dropped something which was hanging from the balcony, all the way to the ground below, which made a small 'crashing' sound. Now I assume Jeff attributed the earlier Tupperware breaking to something similar and nothing because there always seemed to be some noise coming form the various apartments. A quiet complex it was not.
I don't think it was an editing error - David has shown himself to be completely useless at his job, hence the redundancy. He didn't do the report that Neil asked of him - the report that he said would be ready by today and yet Neil came in there to find that 'THIS' had been the fruit of his labours (game show hosted by David Brent). As for the fax, he probably did get it back but quickly forgot about it and forgot he even received one in the first place (did noooo get an agenda).
Hahahahaha!
Could you.....??????!!!!!
Quick answer: this is not your average 'time travel' type movie. Evan can only 'go back' to when he has had previous blackouts. He blacked out when explosive went off, he blacked out when in the basement, just after getting whacked in the face by the crazy boy...........so all in all, he can only change or prevent occurrences within that particular blackout at that particular time.
Haven't seen the film in a while but I thought Tilly refused to do the towns' peoples' dresses and was offended that they even asked. I thought the other dressmaker (the awful one who was drafted in to rival Tilly) did the ghastly Shakespearian dresses and Tilly did the Mikado ones - hence those dresses looking gorgeous (maybe I'm wrong and Tilly did both designs).
Think it was (regarding throwing McBride out) '....eating all our food! Muvva-effer's GAINED weight since he's been here!' Haha that line cracks me up every time!
I also liked it. I think the people who didn't like it, didn't understand the movie (I got it straight away). The whole thing was a metaphor for how the media/television controls us and controls how we think. The televisions in the movie even have they're own heartbeat, like a life of their own. The dad is a definite sheep/follower (remember how he used that same analogy when roping in his daughter's boyfriend - something like 'we need to lead the herd') - so the dad blindly and without question, does everything the tv tells him to, even if it tells him to torture his 'sleeper agent' son (I know, right!). The son who came home unexpectedly is definitely not a sheep or a follower and has a mind of his own, hence the reason he is estranged from the family (the sister yelling out 'you think you're always right!' is a clue to this). The racism portrayed in the movie can also be seen as a consequence of the media putting fear and hatred of Islamic figures in our minds, due to the high number of 'terrorism' acts of late (speculation of such even came on the tv, where the crotchety granddad agreed with the news report, fact or no fact). As a result, the family openly show their racism towards the Asian girlfriend of the son who came home. Anyway, to cut a long story short, by the end of the movie we see the dad, who was always a sheep/follower, now completely taken over by the tv (like a puppet), everyone dead but the newborn baby is now a follower/worshiper of the tv (the tv kept saying 'worship me, worship me'). The tv will now be the newborn's everything - mom, dad, sibling, babysitter and therefore, as is always the case, will be raising this newborn.
'Negro character'????? Are we in the 17th century or something? How about not sounding racist and offensive by just saying 'black characters' or 'characters of colour'!?
I have a couple of favourite scenes: 1st one is the scene where O'Quinn interrupts the making out of Stephanie and her young boyfriend-to-be and the mother yells at him and says he's ruined the progress he's made with Stephanie and it's 'ALL YOUR FAULT!' The switch of O'Quinn's face is just brill! His eyes just went evil! The 2nd is the 'wait a minute - who am I here?' scene, followed by the 'thank you honey!' WHACK of the phone to the face!!!
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