I imagine they kind of wanted it to be timeless, but what decade? early 80's? Kind of hard to tell because the appliances could be really old. I'm imagining the game show with the whammmy's is first run as there is no cable.
This movie was slow, but not that hard to figure out. I'm confused why others don't get what happened.
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shareI assumed that it took place in the present and that the technology is old because the person living there is old.
shareThe attorney's car and coroner's station wagon put it in the early 80's for me. Items such as the rotary phone and TV were a few years older, but something you'd expect to be in the home of an elderly recluse.
Late 70's or early 80's. The biggest clue is that the nurse doesn't have a cell phone/smartphone and that big heavy sweater she wears was a popular style at the tail end of the seventies. Also the VCR appears to be a 3/4 inch tape machine. Those were used up to the early eighties when VHS and Beta (who remembers Beta besides me?) pushed it out.
shareI remember beta. I met one person who had one. Also how would the TV work without cable or digital converter.
I believe its present day, here are the clues:
-The nurse doesn't have to wear white, that is, its not required.
-The years between the younger and older authors. If the author wrote the book in the 60's then think about it, does she look to be about 50 or so years older?
-What the nurse says about the corded phone, still pretty common in the 90's, all over the place in the 80's.
-The nurses general mannerisms speak to me of a modern woman.
-The cars, plenty of people drive older models. We did not see enough traffic to date the era by the vehicles.
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The ambulance that showed up looked to be an 1980's model and the lawyer seemed to be driving a 80's Chevy and there was a 1970's panel station wagon.
But the young Iris seemed to be wearing 1950's-60's glasses in her 20's so to be in her late '70's it would have to be 2005 to 2015.
The clues don't add up but it's still possible to get a rotary phone to work as long as it's connected to a regular phone line without VOIP or modem. And that is the huge clue was that Lily didn't seem too put off by a rotary phone so it must have been pre-1995 when the internet, Compuserve, AOL and modems were forcing pulse dial phones out.
So Iris would have had to be writing the novels around WWII. That song she was going to sleep with; if you find out what it is then that would be a good clue.
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