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Major Plothole

posted 12 years ago by auteur_theory
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Carolyn's illness/death

There were no subtle hints whatsoever that this was gonna happen.

My first reaction to seeing Carolyn sick was "What the Fluck?!".

When I first saw this I really thought the movie was gonna have a happy ending (even though it does sorta, everyone moves on with their lives and live life happily)

I was hoping the family got wealthy or something, having Woody's career take off.

Clinton learned to be more mature/respectful and begun to get along better with Carolyn and Troy.

Woody and Carolyn stop bickering and be more loving to each other.

THAT would've been a good ending, not killing off one of the three major characters, out of the blue.

tRuE sTAR LeGEnd

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[–] ofuoku71 12 years ago

I wouldn't call that a plothole, tbh.

[–] fishypicklez92 12 years ago

If you look closely they did show signs she was sick.She looked sick when she first asked Troy to stay in the south for the summer. She also looked ill when Troy made breakfast for her one morning after the dad was kicked out. She didnt' look well, of course many of us didn't assume Cancer but it was obvious she was sick.

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[–] BlackVelvetGlove 12 years ago

Also, when they were on the way to Aunt Song and Uncle Clem's, Carolyn did say that she was tired. And there are some cancers that progress very quickly.

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[–] heyanerd 11 years ago

it's based on a true set of experiences, so I don't think it was a matter of "wanting" to kill off a character as much as the need to do it to explore the truth behind what this story was truly about

[–] Lola_Wants 11 years ago

The movie is based on Spike Lee's real life story. He and his four siblings lost their mother when Spike was a teen. Their father was a jazz musician & mother was a teacher just like the movie. His siblings (Cinque & Joie) wrote this screenplay along w/Spike. I thought there were subtle hints to the mother's illness in the movie. But she had to die in order to hold true to their life story.

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[–] franzkabuki 11 years ago

Firstly, Crooklyn hardly even has a "plot". Secondly, even if the was one, what the OP describes, does not by any means qualifies as a "hole".

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[–] Arimas01 11 years ago

This not exactly a plot hole but she did mention, in one scene, that she was really tired. At the time when we saw her in the hospital, she obviously hadn't been there long. They must have been still running test because, at that point, nobody knew what was wrong with her. Remember when the father goes in the bedroom to tell the kids, he had tears in his eyes, as if he had just gotten the news himself. Then he said that she was sicker than they originally thought and the doctors found cancer.

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