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Good point. At least someone has some brains on here.
I was trying to figure out why Jeepster was so off his rocker, and then I realized that he must've missed the part where the kid got all of the money as he was leaving the house.
That's the only explanation I can think of because the miser definitely did NOT take it with him.
But he didn't take any of it with him. Did not not see the end? The kid got it all.
You've totally lost me. He didn't take ANY of the money to hell. You even said so yourself. So what "reward" are you talking about? He went straight to hell with WHAT?
Good question. There's no reason to give him a gun at all (real or a toy). And here's another question...
If it was just a toy, then why would they demand that he turn it in?
Also: We never saw any "resetting" the entire movie. If so, we would have seen him back on the boat at the end (or at least in his cell thinking that he was back on the boat).
Come to think of it, we never saw his cell in Ward C at all. If he had really been a patient the whole time, why didn't they just take him to his cell and show him all of his things to prove that he'd been there for 2 years? No silly role-play required.
Well-said Wanderer. Thank you!
Oh, so every time 2 words sound the same, that immediately becomes a joke?
I agree that it can be funny when people get similar-sounding words confused, but it never happens in this movie. So there is no joke to be had.
Can we at least agree on that?
Agreed Lord Rake. It's like if you had a kid who thought that there was a monster in the closet, and so you actually put one in there to prove him wrong. Make that make sense.
If there isn't any more to this movie than a silly role-play exercise for a delusional patient that would obviously have the opposite effect than what they claim it would (and that's exactly what happened), then we don't have a whole lot to work with. And it's impossible for us to know what parts of it really happened. You might as well dismiss everything that we just saw as the delusions of a mad-man. Watching paint dry would be more appealing--At least you know it's really happening.
Every scene gets more and more ridiculous, and then we get to the lighthouse, and just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, they prove us wrong and out-do themselves. I was like "We're supposed to believe this nonsense? Anagrams? You have got to be kidding me".
If this is supposed to be some profound movie about the tragedy of mental illness, it fails miserably. Teddy seems perfectly normal for most of the movie, and then he does get pretty crazy at the end, but who wouldn't after all of the ridiculous scenarios that he was put through? It's like everybody in the movie was trying to drive him insane, not bring him back to sanity. I know that the field of psychiatry was new back in the '50s and that they didn't know what they were doing, but I'm sure they could have done better than that.
Nah, it wasn't Mean Girls. It was TMC-4!
I dunno. Perhaps you can explain why it's up.
It's good to be the producer-director!
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