Saw that sucker from miles away. Come on, that was 'easy' if you paid attention. Also if she wasn't involved in the scam, we would've seen her family portrayed at some point in the movie. But I agree that the movie was very well constructed in that sense that all the locations and events we are presented with, never "cheats" to make us believe she is genuine. IE. her apartment is pretty empty, aside from furniture - We would think that someone lived there, and they didn't cram a bunch of personal items in the apartment to fool us.
So to conclude, there are 2 scenarios here:
1. Some people are smarter than you.
2. You're a moron.
It doesn't pay off to be cocky, especially when you're wrong. You're just gonna end up looking dumb.
BTW.
I was surprised by the last one though. We were made to believe that the movie was over when it really wasn't. When LaRoche was in the laundry room I got annoyed thinking that they either staged an open ending or cliffhanger for a second movie (gotta hate those) or that it was some lame freak coincident. That would be so pointless "Uhlalala I survived, let's fight so you can kill me again!". But I liked the "I chose this prison"-twist. Very nice!
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Yorick_Brown
15 years ago
"Also if she wasn't involved in the scam, we would've seen her family portrayed at some point in the movie."
Fine that you predicted the twist but if this was part of your reasoning, then it was a case of dumb luck as well being smart that led to your correct prediction.
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scottcom36
15 years ago
"Lucinda" never said she had an apartment. She said she lived in the suburbs with her husband and he had a "crash pad" in the city. So a sparsely furnished apartment made perfect sense, and it wasn't farfetched to think that she'd come by the apartment occasionally as well.
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