Absurdities


1) When Michael recovers after finishing his first contract in the film, his employers hand him a paper cheque in an envelope! Even in 2013 in backward Britain I get my benefits automatically in a bank account. Looks though they realised their mistake in time for the second contract and said it will be in his account.
2) When he signs the second contract, it sounds almost as if he's agreed to work at Scientology HQ - no leaving the compound etc. The abbreviation ARC appears all over the place as well, which is Scientologese for 'Affinity - Reality - Communication.'



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Some good candidates for the "Top ___ Things I Learned" thread.


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I was particularly amused at his ability to outrun a speeding subway train, for about 30 seconds.


And let's not forget that he put a 90 million dollar lottery ticket at the bottom of a birdcage, protected by a single sheet of newspaper, that the girl would have crumpled up & thrown away the first time the birds went poop.

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So that's why he didn't fed them.

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"When Michael recovers after finishing his first contract in the film, his employers hand him a paper cheque in an envelope"

That's not the worst part. The female lawyer makes a VERBAL agreement with him AFTER the fact.

Why do it that way?

In real world, it would be actual paperwork he would have to read and sign..

-- BEFORE anything else is done --

..and no one would just say those things out loud and accept his purely verbal agreement, which, they didn't even seem to be recording.

I don't think your number 2 is 'absurdity', it's more like 'resemblance to a specific cult'. It might be disturbing, annoying, nonsensical, or even stupid, but it's certainly not 'an absurdity'.

This movie doesn't have many parts, that are free of plotholes, stupidities, inconsistencies, illogical bits, etc.

That 'first marker put to a place when he's walking somewhere with a box in his hand' is just SO stupid, especially since it's from a third-person perspective, and that happens almost immediately in the beginning!

By the way, Nikola Tesla has been said to have stated that space does NOT have curvature.

If Nikola Tesla is right, this would render this movie's explanations impossible. Well, I suppose the -explanations- are possible, just not the content of the explanations.

Then again, almost anything can be possible in fiction, so I suppose it doesn't matter. It would just be more interesting to have something more plausible and more fascinating as the explanation as to how it all works.






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