A guy gets shot directly in the frontal lobe and still lives enough to ask a dog for a paw? Come on!
Once I saw this, the whole movie lost it's flare. Even though it was pretty good overall.
If it wasn't for that one scene I would recommend this movie to my friends, but now it's just 'meh'.
My roommate is an occupational therapist and had a patient a couple months ago that got shot in the head, point blank, by her boyfriend. She stayed conscious through the whole thing, played dead so he would leave, got up and called 911 to come get her. A few days later, she was talking almost completely normally, just a little slurring and had some problems with higher cognative functions and sequencing. Other than the fact that half her head was shaved from surgery, you couldn't tell anything was wrong with her.
And that's only one of her patients...she's had quite a few gunshot to the head survivors as patients (lots of gang violence in our city), but for the most part the rest of them are pretty obvious that they got shot.
So a guy surviving for a few seconds is not unbelievable in any way.
I find it funny how movie medicine, movie balistics, and movie violence have now become so engrained in society that people use them as a benchmark for what's realistic.
It's certainly possible and realistic to be shot in the head and not die instantly, or in some cases even survive.
guys, guys, get a grip - this movie was an absurd black comedy, in the same way that In Bruges was an absurd black comedy - too much analysis for Chrissake!!!
"What're you rebelling against, Johnny?"
"What have you got?"
Gabby Giffords took a point-blank shot to the coconut and she's still walking around and whining like a liberal! Most of a person's head is skull, anyway.
shareI agree totally, my friends uncle tried to kill himself with the same method. and he didnt die. He messed himself up real bad and even was able to open the door to let his sister in and paramedics. Later on though he slipped into a coma because of where the bullet was and they pulled the plug. But still people don't always die from one shot even at point blank range.
"Do you feel in control?"
Getting shot in the head does not mean you will die. If you have ever recieved military training, or any training in lethal force, you would know that the only way to get a guaranteed kill is to aim for the(what is called) "T" box. It covers the area of the face roughly from the eyes in a T pattern to the mouth. What this does is when the bullet enters that area it severs the brain stem, this is the only way you will be guaranteed to kill the target. Anything else the target could possibly live long enough to kill back, that's never a good thing.
In Hollywood it is almost always a instant death with a head shot. This is not reality.
RFK was shot three times, one of them to the head. Survived for about 12 hours, long enough for a dog to hand him a paw.
share"If it wasn't for that one scene I would recommend this movie to my friends, but now it's just 'meh'."
Hahahahahahaha! Wow! You're not going to recommend this movie now because of that? You're have no idea what you're talking about. It's very possible to not only survive for a while after being shot in the head, but to go on living completely.
I would hate to know what other ignorant reasons you've decided to dislike a movie.
Did you hate the Avengers because people can't really fly or have super strength?
"Just another freak, in freak kingdom."
In addition to the previous comments, you also seem to have missed the joke in it: In Billy's final shootout version, his shot makes Charlie's head explode. Which is typical Hollywood-like unrealistic over-action. Ridiculous, but what you (and Billy) obviously think how a headshot in a movie should look like. Alas, when Charlie does exactly that to him, his head doesn't explode, he's no even instantly dead, but lives long enough for a stupid dog joke. Which was much more realistic, and in the whole context quite ironic..
shareIt's improbable but possible (just) to survive a frontal lobe injury. Phineas Gage is the most famous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
He had a tamping iron about 4 foot long and weighing 13 pounds (think a crowbar without the bendy bit)blast through his skull from under his jaw through his frontal lobe and out the top of his head. It was found more than 80 feet away, which gives you an idea of the force of the explosion. Not only did he survive long enough to 'ask a dog for a paw', he lived another 12 years.
I reckon you should rethink your 'meh'.
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