Agreed - just watched this now and thought it was very involving, but also I couldn't help thinking (admittedly this is a bloke talking, but still) that it wouldn't have been that difficult for either sex to wrench the pipe away from the wall.
The final female (Joff's mother) had enough play in her tethering to be able to get across the room to just ease the wardrobe door open to let the dog out (to meet it's unseen demise), so therefore she would have had enough play to be able to prop her feet against the wall where she is pipe-tethered and wrench backwards, thereby pulling the pipe from it's holding clips. Once loose, she could have pulled and pushed against the pipe to increase the flexibility and malleability of the copper enough to gradually sheer it asunder. After that it's child's play (sorry, bad pun) to escape via a window or shoulder a door. Surely the extremity of the situation would force the most determination out of anyone.
Yes, I know it's only a film, and that one has to suspend one's disbelief for the sake of a plot, but - when the film is trying to be so darkly realistic and grim, then is it not facile to make characters act weakly and unrealistically? I don't know - maybe it's just me but this point, along with the already mentioned point in some of the other threads for this film - why the mother used her bra wire to open a hole in the floorboards, rather than try to mess with the cuffs mechanism, seemed to undermine the attempted gritty realism of the whole thing for me.
Still, the whole thing was a (crooked) mile better than anything Hollywood can muster. Even the film "Prisoners" - as someone else somewhere rightly pointed out: a valid comparison - couldn't be as grimly real as this.
And finally - was it just me, or did anyone else want the detective to just keep on punching the perpetrator in the face at the end until there was nothing left but a messy pulp (like Hannigan in the "That Yellow Bastard" segment of "Sin City")?! "THIS is your treatment!!!" (Bash!)
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