Jose Miller3 said:One thing that really rubbed me the wrong way was this one—totally unnecessary—little detail: mentioning that Cres is where his brother lives, and then throwing in Rendić's hospital being "right nearby."
I mean, what was the point? Seriously, why? What did they actually gain from that transparent, pointless, pathetic little lie? Aside from the fact that the ten of us were sitting in the theater yesterday just gossiping about it? Do you really want to force people from New York City—which is basically a quarter of your potential audience—to spend their time nitpicking the geography instead of actually feeling for the family?
Once I caught onto that—as dumb as that detail was—I just couldn't take the director seriously anymore, and it made all that mediocre acting stand out even more...
Lol, wait—did you guys catch that they actually filmed it on that specific street (the one by my brother's apartment at the start of the movie), or did they explicitly mention the street name in the film? I totally missed both!
ruggedjackal46 said:I honestly don't get the argument that scenes involving the supporting characters slow the movie down. To me, those are actually the only moments where anything feels like it's actually happening. When you strip them away and just focus on the core trio, there’s zero momentum. You’ve got the brother looking lost, the others are equally clueless, and they just end up circling the drain with the same repetitive conversations and frantic panic. Let's be real here: this isn't exactly a high-octane thriller where plot points are flying left and right. There isn't even much internal development happening within the characters themselves; everyone is just slowly, but very obviously, sliding toward a total downward spiral from the opening frame.
What exactly do you mean when you say he should have "filmed this movie properly"? If we're talking about how this could have actually looked if it were done right, what’s your vision? Are we talking about tighter editing, maybe some more rapid-fire cutting? Or would you lean more into having more shot-reverse-shot sequences to keep the pacing from dragging?
So, we sat there waiting for the doctor for five minutes, then hung out in the office for a bit longer after—just to find out he’s totally insensitive and apparently it’s not "polite" to question a prescribed treatment plan. Honestly, I don't see the point. Those three have enough crazy chemistry on their own—I much preferred that scene where they all pile into a car to head down to Miami, the brother loses control, and realizes they're hiding scissors from him. Or even when they show up at his place and just send him to bed... I found myself just waiting for the sound of glass shattering at any moment. A grumpy nurse or a cop can be a decent addition to a scene without stalling the plot, but this whole thing with the Austrian doctor felt pretty pointless to me.
That scene with the totally checked-out officer at the Miami station when they go to report a theft was gold—it had this bitter, comedic edge to it. You could really feel that classic bureaucratic attitude: "this is just how things work, hang in there, I'm just doing my job." 😁
northerncrane4 said:Well—"rightly so." To him, in the heat of the moment, the police badgering him about who was bleeding might seem stupid or misplaced. But eventually, our author should realize that those questions aren't "stupid"—they’re standard procedure for officers dealing with situations they see far more often than he does. For Lerotić, this tragedy is a once-in-a-lifetime nightmare; for those cops and paramedics, it’s just damn routine. And even within that routine, I still don't see why he feels the need to quietly—yet legally—accuse them of being incompetent.
One might think these gripes have nothing to do with the film's quality, but for me, it matters—especially in a movie that asks you to buy into the director's specific perspective. I don't care much about his stylistic choices, provided his core message is clear and his conclusions actually hold water. 🤷
Personally, I think he was just trying to capture that feeling of hitting a wall with rude, insensitive staff—you know how it is when you're already down. He wasn't trying to paint them as saints, but since he didn't explicitly say he's suing the hospital, I wouldn't take it too seriously, tbh.
The whole thing with wiping away the blood would feel pretty pointless unless we later got some twisted, touching moment where the brother admits he did it to protect him—even if it actually just landed him in a mess. 😵
