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Did anyone notice in the beginning of the film, when Kate and Justin


were having dinner with their friends, Jon walks into the restaurant, and stares at them while he's at the cashier's?

I guess he was buying a bottle of wine, but was there any other reason that was thrown in there?

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So that he overhears their conversation as they're criticizing the garden. So, right away he dislikes them.

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That sounds good; it supports the idea that the film is really about the ones below resenting the couple above, more than being just a baby snatching plot.
Thanks for the reply.
Still, the couple below didn't really need to live in the apartment, considering that they owned their own luxury house.
The plot had a lot of subtle elements in it that weren't articulated clearly, so you had to infer some things about it; i.e. her family's history of mental illness.

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