clearly a road had to be somewhere nearby. The car had to have come from somewhere. I always assumed the road would be up high on the hill. And it was. All he had to do was mount that hill... which was hard, but imagine how much easier it could have been if he hadn't wasted days sitting in the car and more days crawling around. What a waste of time and effort! Especially since he ended up back at the crash site again.
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I KNOW he was trapped under the dash board. My point is AFTER he got loose and was able to get out of the car he still stayed at the crash site for at least another day.
How could he have been so disoriented that during those 3 days he was at the crash site he wasn't even able to think about searching for the road and realizing the road had to be higher up on the hill? I mean seriously, the car couldn't have teleported there, the road HAD to be nearby, yet he crawled around for like 2 days, only to end up back on square one. He couldn't have been that out of it, he had enough sense to try to splint his leg with pieces of wood and belts.
Oh yeah, his character was clearly thinking straight. That he had no memory of himself or his whole life is just a minor issue...
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Did you think maybe his entire wayward trek through the forest was a part of his hallucination. He may have only been at the crash site for a couple days but he kept dreaming and hallucinating about alternative things happening.
How could he have been so disoriented that during those 3 days he was at the crash site he wasn't even able to think about searching for the road and realizing the road had to be higher up on the hill? I mean seriously, the car couldn't have teleported there, the road HAD to be nearby, yet he crawled around for like 2 days, only to end up back on square one. He couldn't have been that out of it, he had enough sense to try to splint his leg with pieces of wood and belts.
@bite_me_loser_86 That is exactly what I said and thought!
That's why I think it's a little stupid and didn't like it all that much.
I kept going:
"why does he do that?"
"Why doesn't he try to..."
"Why does he waste all that time?"
"Well, this is just stupid.."
Hahaha it's like a bad horror movie - no, don't go UP the stairs where the killer is - go drive away in your car. lol.
Only a human child can give her this new name. A human child? Where can I find one?
I agree with the OP. Most likely, all he had to do is look around the area and find a path where the car had smashed through trees and brush and possibly tire tracks and follow the path up to the road. I thought it was dumb that he crawled around for days and didn't even attempt to find the road first. Another thing I didn't understand is why didn't he try to create some kind of crutch with a branch and try to hobble at least instead of crawl around? I don't think it's totally a bad movie except for a couple of points. I like Adrien Brody. He always brings so much to a part but there are plotholes here.
"Wait a minute. You know that scum? He licked my window!" --Amanda (Diagnosis Murder)
to stretch out the story and make the movie last two hours. having someone wake up in a crashed car with amnesia and a compound fracture isn't that eventful.
127 hours did it much better, and he even knew where he was and that it was his own fault.
I wondered that too. Survival 101 says: look for a road. A car wreck can't be far from one, though we never once heard the sound of any passing which creeped me out thinking he's so deep in the woods something surreal must have happened.
There are many irritating plot devices in the film world. Chief among them for me are those that won't let the character do something simple and logical because it would end the movie.
"A car wreck can't be far from one, though we never once heard the sound of any passing..."
When he finally makes it to the road, there's a dead bank robber there. That means the road is hardly ever used, and that's why we never heard a car.