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Misery

Picking Nits

The pursuit, scrapbook, housing, legal history, knife plan, and bodily-care logistics draw objections

In the discussion (11)
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  • Annie says she followed Paul, but the wide opening shots show no vehicle behind him
  • A snowmobile hidden in the woods is offered as one way Annie could have followed Paul unseen
  • Keeping an incriminating scrapbook openly in the living room is challenged; hiding it is proposed
  • A defense notes that real serial killers sometimes retain trophies
  • Paul is so successful that he should own a Colorado home instead of repeatedly using a lodge
  • Annie’s apparent release after multiple infant deaths seems implausibly lenient
  • Paul should stay awake with the knife rather than doze off
  • Paul’s injuries and exhaustion are offered as a defense for falling asleep
  • The movie largely avoids the practical toilet and bedpan needs of a bedridden captive
  • The practical burden of staging and shooting bedpan material, only to cut it in editing, is offered as a defense for omitting it
  • A small toilet in the room is proposed as a simple fix