Probably Unanswerable Questions
Investment size; Murphy jail scenes; sympathetic sex-worker characters; smoothies; Beeks’s fate; Ophelia and Coleman
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- How much the heroes invested and whether their island stay represents retirement or vacation remain unresolved; savings may have restored their finances without enormous wealth.
- This film’s jail scene is preferred to 48 Hrs., though the latter is considered a more iconic character introduction.
- Curtis’s Ophelia is proposed as the best sympathetic sex-worker character, while Roberts is preferred in response; physical rescue and emotional rescue are compared.
- Coleman’s drink prompts the joking question of whether he invented smoothies and a proposed expensive namesake drink.
- The length of Beeks’s voyage to Africa is questioned.
- Why the gorilla is at the Philadelphia station and what treatment Beeks experiences remain unresolved.
- The costume going unnoticed and Beeks surviving for a year are questioned.
- Poor animal care and the trip’s unsanitary conditions are offered as dark explanations for Beeks’s predicament.
- A suggested Ophelia-Coleman sexual encounter is rejected because she is understood to love Louis.