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Good movie except for...(SPOILERS)

posted 6 years ago by PackManDan (74)
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So this was a good movie. It held my attention. I enjoyed the twist at the end...didn’t see it coming. Although now that I know the twist I’m surprised I didn’t recognize that Virginia was the mother all along.

Anyways, here’s the one thing I didn’t like, and it’s a big deal...

Adrian and Laura, when driving down the road, are engrossed in conversation and Adrian isn’t paying attention to the road. At the last second a deer runs in front of him, he swerves to avoid the deer ends up driving over the lane and causes the crash that killed Daniel.

It was an accident though. It wasn’t intentional at all. They weren’t driving drunk or driving under the influence of drugs. It was an accident. And if they had just called the police and said what happened Adrian and Laura wouldn’t have been found guilty of anything at all.

The fact the movie wants me to believe they would have covered up his death, driven him somewhere and dumped him in a lake is very hard to believe. I don’t feel any normal person or any person at all would do this.

Like I said, if they had done something illegal like driving drunk then I could see it as a possibility but it’s just so hard to believe anyone would do this when they wouldn’t be in trouble at all.

[–] plainstyle (172) 5 years ago

That was what I was thinking early on. Eventually Adrian's character gets filled in some more though and it becomes clear he just had to have it all his way. Not a hint of blame. If they talked to the police, then his affair would have been unveiled, as he was supposed to be in Paris. For him, that was all that was needed to get the ball rolling.

[–] fountainhead (323) 4 years ago

Would the affair necessarily have been unveiled? I wondered if the two of them just stuck around until the cops showed up, described the accident and said they were friends traveling together, would the police involvement have taken more than a couple of hours? Or is it because Adrian is such a high profile figure that the press would have gotten wind of the affair?

[–] thebucketrider (57) 3 years ago

No way to know in advance, but it wouldn't have to be through the press. It would be enough for their spouses to get wind that they are wanted for questioning about an accident far from their homes and even farther from Paris.

[–] thebucketrider (57) 3 years ago

I thought their concern wasn't prosecution, but the harm it would do to their respective marriages if it became known that they were having an affair.

[–] PackManDan (74) 3 years ago

If that’s the case then one or the other could go walking down the road and the other one could stay on scene. They could wait for cops and say they were the only one driving the car. The cops wouldn’t know any better as there were no witnesses at the scene of the crash. Then after the questioning was over at the scene, they could meet up again and no one would know anything.

Anyways, just a small gripe. I still very much enjoyed the movie.

[–] thebucketrider (57) 3 years ago

It might be a challenge for the one who walked down the road to find alternative transportation: it looked like they were in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps not a compelling reason when weighed against all the trouble they got into, but it might have carried some weight in the heat of the moment.