If Kristen Stewart's character was in on the whole operation and knew the CIA was giving Jesse Eisenberg panic attacks to keep him from leaving the town...why was she so mad that he couldn't go to Hawaii with her?
She was trying to be understanding towards him but she was obviously hurt/mad at him which seems unreasonable/uncharacteristic considering she was a part of the organization that was doing this to him.
Good point.
But on the other hand, she has to play along with Mike's plan (jesse's character).
He wants to go to Hawaï. She knows that isn't going to happen.
Remember when she was waiting at the airport?
It's not that she was waiting for him to show up. She already knows he's not going to come.
Perhaps she was only thinking about how their lives would be if he was able to move freely.
So she is sad. Not mad.
The painful part is, that she can't be too forgiving, driving home.
She has to react the way a normal person would react in order to not arouse suspicion.
It's as painful for her (keeping a secret from him) as for him (feeling like 'the tree' that stops 'the car').
Actually her being his "handler" negates the whole premise of the movie. They want to kill Jesse because he is a risk due to his attempts of leaving town. Why not simply let the handler handle it, by giving Kristen a call saying: "Sweety, your boy really needs to stop that otherwise we'll be forced to kill him." Problem solved. Nobody needs to die.
It's a real plothole.
Plot hole? How about Stewart is 25, must have been 24 when the film was made. She's supposed to have been his handler for five years and was a fully qualified field agent before then -- at the age of 19.
The whole film was unbelievable from the moment we saw the CIA HQ.
CIA sending in a team of assassins to an American town? Then a ****ing drone strike?
That would have been too absurd if it had been on Archer.
It doesn't negate the film and it's not a plot hole. She left her CIA job and previous life to stay with Mike because she actually fell in love with him. She no longer had any contact with the CIA and would never have killed him anyway even if they suddenly called her up.
It is explicitly stated by Victoria to Mike when they go to his house after she saves him from the burning car.
"She had so much faith in you. You were real to her. She was just suppose to get you settled in this town and then she was going to get re-assigned. She decided to stay with you. She gave up everything."
And as far as the airport scene, I read it as she is desperately hoping he'll be able to overcome his conditioned phobia and because we as the audience don't know of their real past, it works on the another level of her being disappointed that Mike can't follow through again. Like someone would act in that situation where their partner can't face their fears so they keep failing. She's rooting for him and sad that he still can't do it.
It is a plot hole because it does not make sense to not even contact the ex-handler, who is living with the subject in question.
You can struggle and kick as much as you want, but you cannot make anyone believe that she would have said "Nope, I don't work for you anymore, I don't care. We're going to Hawaii!" if someone had told her it's either you manage to make him stay put in this boring town or we will have to permanently "deactivate" him. And I never said they would have told her to kill him. That would be another terrible idea destined to end in failure.
She knew he had been programmed to be unable to leave town. She loved him, and had spent years helping him. She hoped he would eventually be able to overcome the programming. Mike secretly planned the trip. I would imagine Phoebe believed Mike was about to mentally have a breakthrough. I think she had willed herself to believe he was ready.
She spent the entire movie pushing him to be better, than the mess the training made him. She continued to have faith in everything about him....getting out of that town, publishing his comic, freeing his mind etc.
Excellent reply -- that was my thinking, too.
shareShe was hurt/mad at the situation, not the dude. She was probably hoping he would magically be OK this time. But nope, reality gave her another cold splash.
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