...when, early in the movie, Carlino opens the fridge to feed his face, he takes out a bowl of fruit. In the bowl of fruit, a couple of bananas are visible. Even a blind person would know that you don't store bananas in a fridge.
OK, it's not exactly a plot hole.
What I actually DO consider a plot hole is:
He takes out a plate full of cold cuts and bread, then makes himself a sandwich. The 2 guys get spooked at finding the dead girl and start to leave.
Wouldn't Lisa:
1) Notice that the plate of food was in the living room area instead of the refrigerator, and
2) the fact that some of it had been eaten?
You mean Susy, right? Lisa was past noticing anything, being dead.
What I noticed was slices of bread stacked up on a plate. Doesn't bread out of the wrapper get stale?
How odd. The thing that caught my eye was that the plate of cold cuts that Carlino takes from the refrigerator has no plastic wrap or foil on it; no one with any sense would store cold cuts this way.
As for Susy noticing the food, she missed it during her panic over the ashtray fire, and then in a later scene when the phony cop is questioning her (a pretext for wiping down fingerprints), I am not sure whether they showed the cold cuts being returned to the refrigerator, but if memory serves they were no longer on the table.
Never mess with a middle-aged, Bipolar queen with AIDS and an attitude problem!
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I hate room-temperature bananas and have always refrigerated them. I like them very ripe, too, but think that they are unpalatable when "lukewarm".
About the sandwich mentioned by another poster: She calls out for Gloria several times when the men are hiding. Wouldn't she simply believe that Gloria, who obviously is neglected, raided her refrigerator then didn't finish the sandwich? She's used to the girl skulking about, playing tricks on her. She would think of Gloria before believing a stranger did it.
~~MystMoonstruck~~
Yes, Susy says that Gloria moves things around, like the chair we know Mike moved, and that she smelled smoke, which was Carlino's cigarette. Also, the scene where he takes food out of the fridge cuts in in the middle. He sets the fruit on the top of the fridge, and the door is open, so it looks like he took the bowl out of the fridge, but we don't know that he did. He takes one apple, and doesn't put the bowl back. We also don't see whether he took a cover off the cold cuts plate. That would have been more common in 1967-- a solid plastic cover, and not foil or plastic wrap.
If you ever lived in a city, without air conditioning (or even with), sometimes black bananas be damned-- you have to keep all the food in sealed containers, and all fruit and vegetables in the fridge. St. Luke's Place is in Greenwich Village, New York.
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