Picking Nits
The pursuit, scrapbook, housing, legal history, knife plan, and bodily-care logistics draw objections
In the discussion (11)
Approx. transcript time · 01:16:15Read transcript
- 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