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 — Bill Simmons
- A snowmobile hidden in the woods is offered as one way Annie could have followed Paul unseen — Bill Simmons
- Keeping an incriminating scrapbook openly in the living room is challenged; hiding it is proposed — Bill Simmons
- A defense notes that real serial killers sometimes retain trophies — Brian Koppelman
- Paul is so successful that he should own a Colorado home instead of repeatedly using a lodge — Bill Simmons
- Annie’s apparent release after multiple infant deaths seems implausibly lenient — Bill Simmons
- Paul should stay awake with the knife rather than doze off — Bill Simmons
- Paul’s injuries and exhaustion are offered as a defense for falling asleep — Bill Simmons
- The movie largely avoids the practical toilet and bedpan needs of a bedridden captive — Bill Simmons
- The practical burden of staging and shooting bedpan material, only to cut it in editing, is offered as a defense for omitting it — Brian Koppelman
- A small toilet in the room is proposed as a simple fix — Bill Simmons