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At what point would you have quit on Josef? (spoilers)


Even if you were an artistic hipster open-minded towards eccentric rich guys, as soon as the dude joked about killing me with the axe, I'd be in my car as soon as I got back to the house ... bonding session at the healing spring be damned.

I can imagine some people being naïve enough to hang around, however.

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I wouldn't want to be rude or hurtful, and for the most part he seemed kind of like an awkward eccentric weirdo who was dealing with the fact he was dying of cancer rather than someone that was actually dangerous. A ton of things would have made me really uncomfortable but I'd have waited for a time when the option was to stay or go; go to the forest with him, or the cafe or back, or inside for a drink and simply left instead. I wouldn't have walked out midway through anything except maybe having drinks and I like to think I'd have left before then. Josef seemed so eager to bond with him (way too fast and inappropriately) and be friends that I'd have hesitated to just desert him even though he was being creepy.

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Without even knowing the plot of the movie, high as a kite and barely paying attention as soon as dude pop up by the car after Aaron was about to pull off I was like "get the *beep* outta there." That would've been my OK to put it in reverse. sometimes you can just see crazy on people like it's a birthmark.

Also: After watching this movie part of me really believes that Duplass is a sociopath.

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I would've left as soon as I arrived in a cabin in the middle of the woods with a guy acting like a complete maniac/tool. Even after the hug I would've said something along the lines of "I think I might've left my camera charger in the car, I'll be back in a bit.." and drove off then and there...You can't really be too trusting of someone acting too out of the norm or out of their heads.

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At about the same point that I lost patience with the film. So, roughly seven minutes in.

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I definitely would NOT go back into the house for a drink. No way.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.

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immediately.
watching the movie I realized immediately that i) he looks nothing like someone who is going to die in three months (too fit, too many hairs) and ii) he could have asked his wife to do all the videotaping he needed if that had been true.

so basically very soon I realized he was *beep* Aaron (whose role is actually the only weak point of a great movie: hard to believe).

also: the money thing.

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Tubby time. I don't care how desperate for money I was. Huge red flag at Tubby Time. Aside from the fact that the whole thing was really disturbing, on top of that, the guy is eager to get nude in front of a total stranger. I'm not a prude, but I'm also not exactly comfortable with strangers stripping completely naked in front of me - whether it's a man or a woman - I'm just not comfortable. Some people might be fine with it, but generally, I think most people would be weirded out if somebody they barely knew got completely nude in front of them. The whole scene showed Josef's complete lack of boundaries and consideration for others and social norms. Tubby time was very disturbing and I believe most sane people would've fully seen that and high-tailed it out of there.

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There's no way in the world i would have gotten out of the car after pancakes. I wouldve pushed the lunatic out the car while it was moving and would have been on my merry way. Dude was batshit cray.

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Once the sister on the phone is telling him to leave, that’s when I would have ditched. The pictures at diner and the rape story are more creepy than dangerous. He also remorsefully admitted to the pictures and the rape, which softened those incidents a little.

The scare in the car, the bathtub exchange, the wolf mask — none of those are really enough.

It’s when the sister tells him to leave, combined with everything else. That’s when it hit the point of no return.

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