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You’re ignoring some pretty basic information here. You keep acting like the newscast with the kidnapping report being the “same newscast” as the one with the boy-in-the-well hoax is some kind of smoking gun and that if young James saw the story, he must’ve seen the other in the same newscast. This ignores the fact that many different newscasts can cover the same event. He could’ve very easily seen a different one. The “same newscast” aside, you seem to be operating under the assumption that if James heard about the boy on the news, then he must’ve also heard about the kidnapping case on the news. This is also fallacious. The boy in the well story could’ve been a national story and the kidnapping story could have been a regional/local one. The newscast earlier in the film alludes to this by mentioning something about the kidnapping story being “closer to home.” Why would he have not heard about the local kidnapping story? There’s no reason to believe he is a local to the Philadelphia area. He seems to have just gotten off a plane. Maybe he’s visiting relatives in town over the Christmas break. There’s no evidence to suggest he is a local of the area. If he and his parents lived in another state, he may have avoided encountering the kidnapping story. Obviously this is all speculative but so was your original point. There’s no reason to think that he heard the kidnapping story or heard of the other James Cole. It’s really not that big of a stretch to believe that parents would want to hide their young child from trauma by not hiding the fact that the person they saw gunned down had the same name as their son. That “coincidence” would be freaky for anyone, let alone a young kid. To my earlier point, there’s no reason to think James’s classmates know about the story either.

posted 5 months ago in Twelve Monkeys (1996)