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The hotel where the chip was implanted.

posted 16 years ago by StarCaser
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The scene in the hotel room where Raymond walks into the closet and then into an adjacent room where the doctor implants a chip in his brain could not have happened... I understand that when a presidential candidate stays at a hotel the rooms on each side of the one the candidate is occupying as well as those above and below it are occupied by Secret Service personnel. They might be occupied by staff members of the candidate, but they certainly would not be occupied by strangers.

[–] kickstand_cutigers 16 years ago

maybe it didnt really happen the way we SAW it...???

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[–] BallsDeepX 16 years ago

This was intentionally done. We aren't supposed to know if it was real or a dream. The writer specifically mentions this in the special features, that it was all supposed to seem like a dream of Raymond's.

[–] scuffpuppy 16 years ago

OP that may be the case, but Raymond wasn't a presidential candidate. He was a vice presidential candidate. Perhaps there would be a different security arrangement, not for an acting Vice President, but certainly a candidate?But as another poster stated above, we're not supposed to take that scene literally.

[–] billandbonnie 15 years ago

yes, that scene MUST be interpreted as a dream sequence - Presidential or VP candidate or not, with ANY VIP there is NO WAY that much equipment could have been brought in, set up, and used and the room modified with the fake wall without ALL KINDS of hotel staff knowing and giving it away.

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[–] LotusFlower7 12 years ago

yes, that scene MUST be interpreted as a dream sequence - Presidential or VP candidate or not, with ANY VIP there is NO WAY that much equipment could have been brought in, set up, and used and the room modified with the fake wall without ALL KINDS of hotel staff knowing and giving it away.

Well it could happen if the Corporation in question, perhaps, owned the hotel.....

[–] Seanpdineen 14 years ago

I can understand why it was thought as a dream.
On the other hand, a multi billon dollar corp with that kind of brass, backing it, could break the rules with relative ease.
Even today in the rehab field, some doctors see clients as lab rats to be bullied and experemented on

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