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Nah, I just like to read these forums before watching a good movie for the second (or third...) time so I can watch out for details I missed on previous viewings.
Most of the Maplewood family scenes were in the evenings, so I guess Chloe was asleep. Trish was carrying her when she and the boys left the house following Bill's arrest, and she was also mentioned two or three times before that, like when Billy was asking about staying home without a babysitter and Bill asked if he'd be willing to change Chloe's diapers.
She was hoping to get raped so she would "know authenticity".
Any attempt by Benny to blame the murder on his parents would fall apart pretty quickly, and I think Benny was smart enough to know that. For one thing, his parents were out of town at their weekend place on the farm when the girl disappeared. There's a good chance that the farmer's family or someone else would have seen them there. And then, the discussion between his parents that the police were viewing wouldn't make much sense. Why would they murder a girl in their apartment and only afterward be concerned about Benny's presence? Lastly, the police will certainly canvas the neighborhood for any available security footage or witnesses who saw her going to the building. The livestock gun actually belonged to the farmer. He noticed it missing soon after and would remember that Benny had also been there that weekend filming the pig slaughter.
I think Benny was planning to turn himself in all along. That's why he had his head shaved. He wanted to make himself look tougher in preparation for prison. He was completely caught off guard by his father's decision to dispose of the girl's body.
I don't think Jane had any reason to lie about being pregnant. She'd already told her father that college was a waste of time and she wanted to enter the family business.
Brooks emptied Smith's apartment because he couldn't be sure that Smith didn't have copies of the photos stashed there somewhere, whether printed out or on a memory card. If Brooks killed Smith, the police would eventually search the missing man's apartment. If Smith killed Brooks, Brooks wouldn't want his family being embarrassed by evidence that Smith might decide to turn over to police. Taking absolutely everything was faster than searching everything.
Then you'll be relieved to know that least one person did. When Mr. Smith was in Earl's car and they were about to set off in search of a victim, Earl told him to buckle up, which he did.
They are definitely not of one mind/consciousness. If they were, the copies wouldn't be so blithely careless about sucking the life out of the originals. Elisabeth, Sue and the old man all spoke of their clones as she/he, and Elisabeth even said "I don't know what she was thinking" when speaking to the customer service guy. They are only one in the sense of being genetic clones, or of depending on each other for survival, but that's about it.
Elisabeth might have needed Sue's income to maintain her own lifestyle if she had been living beyond her means and had little savings for retirement. There wasn't any indication of that in the movie though. What was apparent was that Elisabeth had started living vicariously through Sue. Especially after she had been turned into a total hag, that was all she had left.
There were some obvious references, such as the eyeball shot, but the two movies were very different in plot and themes.
Assuming it goes as planned, Elisabeth gets a clone who works her ass off for 7 days to bring home the bacon, leaving Elisabeth free to spend her 7 days doing whatever she pleases.
Since the activator is one-use only, why did the company include enough for two uses? Everything else seemed to be measured out quite precisely.
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