Sorry, I shouldn't be happy about this (especially since I liked the movie a lot), but having always been teased for my lack of observation skills I'm just proud I spotted it. So here it goes: at the beginning of the movie we are informed that this is Copenhagen 1926, but a bit later in the movie, when Gerda opens the letter from the first doctor that examined Elbe/Lilly, it is dated 1925.
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So much for lacking observation skills. I've seen it twice and would never have picked that up. Eagle eye!
shareWell, I took particular note of 1926, because that's the year my grandma was born. She grew up in an ultra-conservative and backwards community, worlds apart from where the film is set. So I started wondering how her life would have been if she had grown up in one of those European capitals shown in the movie and got given the chance to become an artist, which was her true vocation (she discovered her talent after she retired and painted some pretty good paintings by the time she got dementia in her 80s - and even afterwords - despite being completely uneducated and self-taught).
So yeh, it was more my tendency to find reasons for my mind to wonder off rather than being naturally observant hehe :p
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Was it written in the Doctor's handwriting? Because it could've been 1926 but his 6 looks like a 5. Doctors' handwriting can be so illegible. They call me Mr. Buzz kill, and I just wrote this to kill your buzz. MLOL (Maniacal laugh out loud).
I feel uncomfortable pronouncing the word 'uncomfortable'. Try saying it slowly 3 times.
Haha nope Dr BuzzKill, it was actually typed!
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