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The suicide scene was unrealistic


I find it unrealistic that a school would allow students roof access where there is no railing.

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I went to high school in Dallas, Texas from 1999-2002. At my school, a significant number of students knew how to get on the roof without needing their own ladders (there were several ways). And in 1973, a female student at that school had committed suicide by jumping off the roof. Over the years, several other people had jumped from the roof and survived, and still, the vast majority of the time, there was at least one door to the roof that had been left unlocked. And no, there was no railing around any part of the roof of the school. Despite the ceremonial law enumerated in the Book of Deuteronomy, roofs today seldom have railing around them unless they are routinely used for parking or activities.

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If you have or haven't noticed there was some kind garden club on the roof. So the students had roof access, but there was no railing. If the girl broke onto the roof thats another story.

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Despite the ceremonial law enumerated in the Book of Deuteronomy, roofs today seldom have railing around them


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I don't really care about that but I care about how the body turns from a person to an obvious dummy in seconds WHILE they were on the windshield.

H2 isn't Michael. Sherlock Holmes isn't Sherlock. Atleast they've got Batman right

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I know this is several years late (the movie just popped into my head the other day, so I thought I'd see what's up on the board) but:

I graduated in 07, and my roof had neither a railing, or doors leading onto the roof (it wasn't a flat roof, but actually had a rather steep slant) but between the fire escape and some inventive climbing, it wasn't too hard to get onto the roof (unless it was wet, then it was very slippery. And very dangerous, and I nearly fell off once because of it). So it may not have been a matter of the school 'allowing' it, so much as she just did it anyway.

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The reason for her even commiting suicide didn't make a lot of since.

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