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Attempted murder on Bob

posted 7 years ago by BiffGG (662)
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I know it goes hand in hand with the over the top nature of the movie but would Leo even give the idea a second's thought if this were real life. Call the cops for trespass and jail Bob. A repeat means a court order for Bob to maintain a certain distance. Done and done. Further, in the structure of Leo's character a murder would be too much of a mess. The legal system would be clean and simple. If Leo were so distraught about his vacation being ruined he could reschedule some time to be there around leaf change over time only a few weeks away from Labor Day.

[–] Hans-Wilhelm (1372) 7 years ago

About Leo's character and him resorting to a "messy" murder, to me the film explained that in that Leo was going insane, he was crazy. That was the joke of the film. This crazy patient and this super up tight, tightly wound doctor and how through the course of the film the crazy patient becomes sane and mature and gets it together and the mature, structured doctor becomes crazy. The structured doctor wouldn't murder someone but the crazy, deranged Leo, who is obsessed with getting Bob out of his life, would murder.