All that damage, and she was right there at the door. She heard nothing?
Having telekinetic powers to destroy is one thing, but to do it silently? I can't buy that.
Of course, we are led to believe Silver did it, but no...it had to be...(you know who). Makes no sense in retrospect, like most of the movie.
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It's a curious position to put yourself in: attempting to rationalize silent telekinesis.
Let's just say that if, in the world of the film, telekinesis exists, perhaps it can also be carried out relatively silently.
I don't know. But most of the crap that was laying around were papers. They're relatively quiet objects, no?
The way I rationalize the scene, as much as it can be rationalized, is that he was causing the things in the loft to move relatively quietly without realizing it. Obviously he didn't realize it... since he didn't realize he had powers until the end of the film.
If I had been writing the scene, I would have simply had both characters run out of the building and down the alley some distance and then have them hear noises in the loft. Upon returning, everything would have been laying about. A tidier solution, perhaps. Although maybe less enigmatic.
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I thought he knew the whole time. I could have sworn that he said the only reason he went around with Weaver's character was so that he could find somebody else like him, and the the whole time he was secretly hoping that the cases were legitimate.
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He did know. He does say he was hoping to find someone like him, and also, he didn't react in fear or alarm at all to the stuff just spontaneously shooting out in the warehouse, when they were checking the tapes. He wasn't frightened or alarmed, because he knew why it was happening. That was the point that I figured out the "twist" ending. :/
shareBut we don't know HOW MUCH he knows and when he knows it.
shareNo, he always knew he had powers. He had to have known he did that. Actively (he was aware he was tearing up his house) or Passively(he was unaware he was tearing up his house) when he came back on the scene. Either way, in the denouement he explains he has always known he has had powers and has spent his life looking for someone else 'like him'. That's why he was part of Margaret's aggressive paranormal investigation department. If anyone was going to find someone legitimate like himself, it was going to be her.
I have a theory that there were some rewrites in the script and the gf character was initially a plant of Silver's to mess with Buckley. She has zero function within the plot and there is barely an argument for her character as part of a romance story arc. They are barely seen together. She is ineffectual to the plot. The entire 'romance' portion is smoothed over in a 5 minute scene in a diner...before she is irrelevant background noise within the plot. She has no purpose in the plot, the romance subplot is never developed. Rewrite? I think she was a Silver plant in some original drafts.
It looked like the "damage" was mostly papers blown around. Basically a strong wind went thru there. I don't know if wind blowing is something to notice. Maybe wind was blowing outside too.
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