Is it just me or did the mothers body language change near the end when she was denying knowledge of nicholas' (death)? Restless eyes constantly looking to the top right are supposed to be indicators of lying. Any body language experts here?
shareAlso just to add i find it highly suspect that the mother would say "i didnt do it" rather than "we didnt kill him" of course that would be true if the brother killed nicholas.
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She thought that 'Linares' the town in Spain where 'Nicholas' was found was in Texas. Not that "Spain was on the other side of the country."
There has been proven to be no correlation between 'looking up to the right' and lying, or any other eye movements consistent with lying. See link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18812072
actually she DOES say Spain is on the other side of the country. It's obviously just a mistake, she garbled her words, but it was amusing to me that the director left it in to give little glimpses at the... hmm... lacking intelligence... of these people.
shareactually she DOES say Spain is on the other side of the country. It's obviously just a mistake, she garbled her words, but it was amusing to me that the director left it in to give little glimpses at the... hmm... lacking intelligence... of these people.
She did actually say that Spain was on the other side of the country.
I noticed this too and repeated it in disbelief to my girlfriend.
She was probably just pretending to be stupider than she is on purpose. Better to be accused of stupid and gullible than a murderer, or of knowing of the murder.
shareGood Lord, it's pretty obvious that the woman did not mean that Spain was on the other side of the country. She's in Texas so what would the other side even be as either coast is fairly equidistant? She obviously meant other side of the world, which is a common enough expression. U.S. presidents (like Obama and Bush) make silly mistakes like this (57 states? "They misunderestimated me!") and we see it as human error, a slip of the tongue, and not a sign of abject stupidity. I think most any adult in the U.S. knows the major European nations and that Europe itself is across the ocean. Awful lot of small-town patronizing going on here...
shareOK, I haven't finished watching this one yet, I came on this
board like I usually due when watching a movie, just to get
info, or other peoples reactions to things?
anyway, like I said, I haven't finished this yet, so I don't
know how this is going to end, BUT. an I missing something
here????????? Why are these other people saying this??
What would make thin think that these people would have done
anything to their love one. Why would they even report him
missing in the first place. if they did report them missing,
but knew that he was dead, then why would the sister hop on
a plane to Spain. why would she waste her money. they would
have immediately started denying that nick could ever be in Spain.
none of these comments make any sense to me what so ever.
OK I am going to go finish this now...
"Killing a child and disposing of the body would be considerably difficult for those who are not well educated".
Yeah? They`re teaching that stuff in schools?
Kidding aside, knowing geography is simply knowledge, information received and memorized - there isn`t necessarily any connection between being educated and being naturally smart.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
The mother didn't do it, but she knows who did it - same for the sister. It was obviously someone in the family - probably a terrible accident. The mother looked completely guilty, but not guilty like she actually murdered the kid, it's the kind that she wishes it didn't happen, but it did and there's nothing to do. Now that this wannabe son is there they can't be the suspects anymore, but she looked guilty about accepting this imposter. It's almost like the Casey Anthony case - these special, not very smart people always try to hide accidents so no one thinks they did it, but it only makes things worse. It was probably a fight, an argument gone wrong, with different members of the family - maybe the mother and sister were both present. Maybe the kid had a nervous breakdown, was on drugs, was acting crazy and frantic; could have hit his head trying to run away or maybe in the house itself when he was in a fight with someone he fell and his head; I don't know what the autopsy showed, but it didn't feel like a typical murder - it's just a bunch of idiots not taking responsibilities for their actions.
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can't outrun your own shadow
I noticed this also, but I would not conclude much on it due to their pure emotional weight of the matter she is discussing, in the same way that a polygraph can give misleading results, other things that are happening in the brain can appear to be something else
shareEyes to the right mean a person is thinking in the present. Eyes to the left mean a person is recalling something. Hence why eyes to the right as a response can mean lying where you are asking someone to speak from memory.
I don't believe the mother killed her son. I think some accident happened or perhaps her eldest son Jason had a hand in Nicholas's demise and she knows more than she's willing to say. If Jason did cause Nicholas's death then she stood to lose two sons.
Why do you refuse to remember me?share
The whole family's body language was off.
Another give away was near the end when the sister started to state how she felt and listed emotions, 1, 2 etc as if they'd been prepared.
When people recount genuine emotions they are typically all over the place, very haphazard and disorganized in their thinking, recounting feelings as they come to mind, speaking quickly. All of the interviews felt flat and dishonest and given the extreme nature of what had happened to them you'd have expected more passion.