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Question about the will (spoilers)

posted 16 years ago by Cleulow
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This is such a glaring point I hesitate to ask, and show my stupidity, but we’re told at the beginning of the film that the will is split three ways: Andrew, Paul, and ‘a charity’.

It’s made apparent later that this charity is some sort of trust fund for Celia, the third child of Andrew and Paul’s father, who isn’t given the money directly because she’s a minor.

But surely the father’s solicitor would be legally bound to notify her of the bequest, and the trust fund? He would have to set it up, presumably - it would be his duty as the solicitor carrying out the will. Under the circumstances the father wouldn’t simply give the will to Andrew to execute, would he?

Obviously if Celia were told, there would be no story. What am I missing? Or am I revealing my legal ignorance?

Quite apart from that, it seems a little odd that Paul, who knew about his father having sex with his girlfriend, should not show the slightest interest in where the third part of the inheritance was going to.

[–] Demarates 16 years ago

You're right about the solicitor, but Paul seems to have some repressed memories as to the fact that old dad was doing his gf.

After all, that was the reason his mother killed himself, another thing he refused to admit to himself at first.

I am not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing.