The guy can't grasp the concept of opening up a can of tomatoes, and yet still he has a DRIVER's license?
shareIt's kind of discrimination of you saying that, don't you think? I see many people with disability have no trouble driving in real life. And I don't see anything, apart from several months probation after a major accident, that prohibits Christ from driving.
shareIt's a little thing called the United States Department of Motor Vehicles...they let far worse drivers than Chris drive every day. I know because they almost kill me on a regular basis.
sharethere is no such thing as the us dmv. every state in the us has their own, state level drivers licensing.
shareIn MA doctors are not under pressure to disclose disabilities to the DMV. You can have serious health issues, be prone to seizures etc., and still get a drivers license easily.
shareI have to agree with the OP. Chris is not allowed to go up stairs or operate an elevator, yet he's still licensed to drive?
Not to mention, that one cop catches Chris speeding and in hysterics and then lets him drive off?
Now the thing about MA doctors might be accurate, but it seems that this is a small town and everyone knows what happened to Chris and what his condition is like. Certainly the authorities do. I can't imagine the DMV, or even his parents for that matter, wanting him to be driving.
In the movie, I'm sure Chris still has a firearms permit as well. I mean, his father didn't blink an eye when he was playing with the guns in the study.
Great movie ... but I think it was a little sloppy on those points.
I totally agree about the absurdity of the cop letting Chris off for speeding simply because he read his little card about how he had a serious head injury. Firstly, Chris was clearly disoriented and rambling, and after the cop found out about his disability he would have most likely demanded Chris vacate his vehicle and drive home with him, or at the very least follow him home (and not just offer, he'd actually do it). If I were that cop, I would have thought that Chris was not in any condition to be driving, both as a threat to himself and to others. Also, if the cop had bothered to run the plates on the car, he'd have seen that it didn't belong to Chris Pratt, but he didn't even bother to run his license. If he had, he'd have likely seen that Chris was in the system because of the accident. I just think there's no way in hell that a cop would have let a young man who was disoriented, rambling "nonsense" about people wanting to kill him, with a mind altering disability, a past record of reckless driving, and in a car that wasn't his, just keep on driving...with his headlights off.
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although the cop didn't recognize chris at first, i think he let him off the hook because he knew who he was, and what had happened to him (since it was such a small town and all).
share> I have to agree with the OP. Chris is not allowed to go up stairs or operate an elevator, yet he's still licensed to drive?
Time.
The movie takes place three years after the accident. That one card that we saw in the movie was from the bank manager's desk and had obviously been there for several years. He commented that Chris had come a long way since then.
Chris gave the man the card when he was hired and he threw it into his desk. Chris got better over the next few years to the point where he was able to go up stairs and use an elevator.
I mean, he did live on the second floor with Lewis and he obviously climbed the stairs or used the lift on his own.
With that improvement, he was able to get a driver's license.
> I mean, his father didn't blink an eye when he was playing with the guns in the study.
He didn't become stupid after the accident; he just tended to forgot little things. He appeared to still know how to handle a gun and to do most basic things.
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First of all, he wasn't pulled over for speeding; he was pulled over for driving with no headlights. Also, I got the impression the cop was familiar with him (or his story) which is why he let him go when he said it was his fault they died (assuming reference to the accident rather than the robbery).
Chris was not retarded; he just had memory problems. His problems were sequencing and recalling; not functioning. He would be perfectly capable of operating both a car and a gun (he was depicted operating both functionally throughout the film).
Also, this film took place in the US where there is no license required to operate a firearm.
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My cousin who is almost completely blind has a driver's license. She is a terrible driver. She can't drive at night because she says, "She drives towards the light." AKA oncoming traffic. I'm surprised she has never been in an accident or killed someone. She drives with both her feet and uses the gas and brakes at the same time. I don't understand how a lot of people get their licenses.
It is possible they didn't make him retake his driver's test and just let him keep his license.
The kind of brain damage that Chris has leaves some things perfectly intact and damages others greatly.
Chris doesn't have trouble walking or talking just like he doesn't have trouble driving.
They probably suspended his license for a atleast a year and had him re take the class due to his imparment. I don't see any reason that he shouldn't have been able to drive.