Continuity mistake: Blanc is questioning the security person of the estate. In the close-up you can see him pin a picture to the board using one of the magnets. To the right there's a banana magnet. The tip of the banana on the bottom touches exactly the border of the picture almost in the corner, but in the wider angle we see the photo continues half an inch lower. (00:55:00)
Sammo
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: Marta tries the back door of the apartment and stumbles upon Walt. When they talk, she fiddles nervously with her mail and brings up an unmarked envelope, which should be on top of everything since she just dug for it. When she retreats into the kitchen, she puts the mail pile on the table; in the first shot there's a bunch of business cards on top of everything; after a view of her face and upper body when she is not messing further with the letters, there's a close-up of her going through the mail, and the unmarked envelope is exactly on top, with the cards gone. (01:26:10 - 01:28:15)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: After the reading of the will, the family storms the lawyer. Linda is reading the will holding it in both hands, which becomes one hand at the cut. (01:10:25)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Other mistake: Marta sinks her white shoes in the mud to cover her tracks. We see that the shoes are, as they should be, all dirty to the sole and welt. They are clean again in the following scene though (on a sidenote, the shoes have been cleaned after the murder then, and she or her mom missed the bloodstain - it's very much possible, it just adds a little implausibility). (00:57:20)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Plot hole: The killer shows up at the scheduled appointment at 8 AM. They kill the idiot blackmailer with an overdose of morphine. Remember, that morphine that supposedly killed Thrombey in 10 minutes. Marta finds the blackmailer at 10 AM...alive, and does CPR on them, keeping them alive long enough for the ambulance to come and bring them to the hospital, even if in critical condition. So we went from "kills in 10 minutes, you can't even try to save him" to "after 2 hours, you are still hanging on"? (01:56:10)
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Suggested correction: Marta injected an absurdly large dose. A smaller overdose would not kill in 10 minutes.
I read that objection before. From 10 minutes to 2 hours there's quite a leap that the movie does not explain or address at all, if it were part of the plot they should have said why this difference, on something so time sensitive (of which they got the factual details wrong anyway). Even visually when you look at the dose injected to Harlan and the dose in the syringe for the murder, they do not look different. He even stabs her with the syringe. Which makes sense since he has no reason to leave her there with a small. Controlled overdose in her veins risking that she would be saved as it -almost - happens - it's amazing he got away with it to begin with because she is so dumb to show up for no reason in a derelict place without talking to her accomplice that passed her the toxi report, or anyone.Without a throwaway line from an investigator or anything of the sort ("but you injected her the wrong way, so she was still alive two hours after"), we are just left with an inconsistency.
Suggested correction: You've assumed a hell of a lot! Marta said Thrombey was given a dose of 100 mg (instead 3) of Morphine and would die in 10 minutes unless given the antidote. You just asserted that "Thrombey would die in 10 minutes" as if it was fait accompli, while Thrombey didn't die of morphine overdoes at all! (He cut his own throat.) For all we know, Marta's 10-minute assessment was a worst-case-scenario assessment. Fran's age and physique, as well as Marta's CPR, helped negate the effect until the ambulance arrives. If the medics administered the antidote, it could have prolonged Fran's life. Finally, 2 hours is the time after which the viewer is informed of Fran's death, not her actual death time. Most importantly, this happens in the medical world all the time: A person who is supposed to die after 3 days lives for 16 years. There are case-by-case explanations for each one, but they baffle the medical examiners at first.
Two hours is not my assumption or when the viewer is informed of her death; the killer gives the appointment to the victim at 8 AM and to Marta at 10 AM, so as I said, after 2 hours with 0 medical care on her she is still hanging on and with barely a little tap she is ready to dispense important clues. I go by what the movie says also about the 10 minutes overdose time. Of course if you tell me that baffling freak occurrences can happen all the time in medicine and that very precise statements from the movie don't matter because the character can just have gotten it wrong by over 10x and the movie does not acknowledge it at all, well, that's a very respectable opinion; mine is that fiction (a whodunnit, not a slasher flick with a killer surviving multiple gunshots and the like) is not reality and it should respond to higher standards than "I guess she was still alive somehow."
I re-watched the movie to verify that Fran was given an appointment at 8 AM. I discovered something new: The bottle that was injected to Fran contained only 5 mg of Morphine. That's 1/20th of what was "supposedly" given to Thrombey Sr. So, yeah, 10x is OK. In fact, 20x is OK.
No, no; it contains 5 mg of morphine PER ml, it's the concentration, not the total. Go back to the scene when Marta "messes up", the vials are the exact same as the one that Ransom injects (obviously, since they come from Marta's bag after all). It's new for you but I covered that already in the Factual Error about it. It's something that piles upon a previous mistake. She did not give him 100 mg of morphine because it would have emptied the vial (which is more than half full) and because a full vial of ketorlac would have killed Trombe regardless, at that concentration! The movie gets both the props and the medical facts wrong (100 mg of morphine does not even kill most patients, Harlan would have not died in 10 minutes especially since he takes safely big doses of toradol and morphine), but nothing - in the script - says that Marta or Ransom got basic medical facts wrong.
Okay! It seems mistake after mistake is piling up. Now, it appears Fran lived 4 hours, during 2 of which she was unattended. Plus, 100 mg of Morphine from a 5 mg/ml vial amounts to 20 ml of liquid. Well, now, everything you say makes sense... or at least most of the things. On the whole, I think it was a complicated situation.
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Other mistake: During the revelation of the second death, when the killer opens the toxicology report they just retrieved, the date is revealed; it says it was issued on 09/27/2018. But the events of the movie happen in November (it's Sunday 18th Nov when Marta wakes up with all the reporters at her door). It should also be noted that when a close-up of the report was shown earlier (when Ransom was looking at the anonymous letter brought by Marta) that copy had a big stamp in a corner saying 11-17-18, that in this copy is totally absent. (01:56:55)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: During the denouement Marta asks "So why did she send it to me?", and Benoit Blanc replies with his right hand in mid-air - but it's in his pocket at the beginning of the next shot. (01:54:30)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: Blanc says he has no idea how Fran got hold of the toxicology report; in that shot, wide angle, Marta's hair cover her right side of the collar of her coat, like in most of the scene. But in the close-up that follows, when she blurts out of the reason, her hair is on the inside of it. (01:54:10)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: During the explanation of the events, Ransom angrily replies to Blanc "You have her confession" as he objects that there's no proof about the vial switch. Daniel Craig says "All right, yeah" arms down, but in the next shot he is shown at the edge of the frame during Marta's closeup, and his arm is bent. During that close-up Ana de Armas ' hair is also differently spread over the shoulders compared to the following view. (01:52:10)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: Ransom is brought back in the room for Blanc's denouement by Officer Wagner. First shot he has his hand under Ransom's armpit. Second, Chris Evans' arm is close to the body, no officer hand in sight. Third like the first, hand under armpit. Fourth, the officer is a few steps away and with his arm lowered. (01:46:20)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: Ransom's presence has been incendiary, and everyone is arguing. Walt and Richard get into a slapfest pawing at each other, and Ransom in a close-up says "We gotta do this more often", eating the biscuit. At the cut with Linda shouting "Hey!" and shutting everybody up, Ransom is in the background just contemplating the cookie still in his hand. Similarly, later when Jacob says what he heard and everyone looks at him, he is chewing in the background, but puts his cookie in his mouth in the close-up. (01:02:35)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Factual error: Opening the blank envelope, Marta finds the fragment of the toxicology report. It is signed "Office of the chief medical examiner, Norfolk County, Massachusetts." But then it writes also the address of said office, which is in Marlborough. Marlborough is also the city when Marta resides, and where the lawyers' letters we see come from. But Marlborough is also a city in the Middlesex county, not Norfolk. (01:28:25)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: Marta goes to Ransom to tell him about the blackmail letter. During the scene, the position of Chris Evans' hands is inconsistent between shots (he suddenly has his hand under his chin in just a close-up, and he is holding the letter at a different angle when he tells Marta that the toxicity report will shot the overdose). (01:28:50)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the car chase, Marta is looking at Blanc shielding her eyes with her hand. When he says "I don't know what he came back to do" etc, Marta's hand is off her forehead, but is on in the shots before and after. (01:34:05)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: There's a clear mix-up in editing during the car chase. Marta checks her phone twice for Blanc's calls as she tries to get away from the police. The first time the phone signals 9:36 AM, the second time 9:34 AM. (01:31:50)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: The quantity of barf on the killer's face varies between shots - in particular they have a big reddish bit on a cheek that disappears in the dramatic slo-mo side view when they push Marta down, weapon in hand. (02:00:00)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: When Ransom asks "Fran's alive?" to Blanc, Chris Evans has his hand raised, thumb before his lips. But the hand is lowered in the shots before and after. Similar situation when the word "Jail" is used a few seconds later. Hand visible in close-up, not matching the wider angles. (01:58:10)
10th Jan 2020
Knives Out (2019)
Continuity mistake: The lawyer arrives at the mansion and gives the reading of the will at roughly 10:30 am (it's morning, he says he'll be ready "in 10 minutes" and a few minutes after you can see on the phone Jamie Lee Curtis' character holds in hand that it's 10:16). Marta gets immediately stormed by the angry mob of scorned relatives and escapes with Ransom, who drives her to a little roadside inn. It's not implied that they drove hours, but let's just assume it's noon or even past noon (which already seems a lot). Ransom feeds her beans, and Marta is forced by her odd gag reflex to spill the metaphorical ones. When she has just finished telling him how the "suicide" went... it's pitch dark outside, and at the mansion. (01:02:30)
7th Jan 2020
Infested (2002)
Plot hole: Throughout the movie, the flies are vulnerable to light (direct sunlight and even lightbulbs) to the point of incinerating in a split second. Except... they are not; in several sequences they fly to and from bodies and without even taking a direct path (look at all the action happening in front of the house, by the cars, in broad daylight).
5th Jan 2020
Bright (2017)
Plot hole: The world depicted features magic, an evil overlord who 2,000 years before tried to conquer the world, and several races. Despite these HUGE differences with our world, everything turns out of the same as our world, with nations as they are now, and a casual mention of the Alamo and "Mexicans still getting shit" for it. So our current history has not been altered a single bit by wizards, dragons and super-strong races roaming the Earth. Fine. In this ungodly implausible context, orcs live with humans in cities that mirror ours; humans and elves don't trust them, but still they live in towns with them, they go to schools, run businesses, half of the NFL is formed by orcs. Even the movie Shrek exists! And yet, at the end of the movie Nick Jakoby becomes the first Orkish police officer in the USA! There is just no way a society like this, mirroring closely our own and with orcs that existed as long as humans did, can exist with no orc ever been part of law enforcement.
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