Questions tagged [plot-explanation]
Seeking to understand a story plot better, or to clear up confusion about certain aspects or plot points. Please also use the specific tag for the movie or TV series, if it exists.
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Why doesn't the CIA contact in "Taken" (2008) whom Liam Neeson asked for help know Albanian?
Liam Neeson's CIA contact knows from hearing the kidnappers' voices exactly which village in Albania they're from. But apparently he doesn't know Albanian, because Neeson has to hire a translator in ...
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Consequences of Not Returning to the Real World in the Barbie Movie: What Was at Stake?
I recently watched the Barbie movie where there's a pivotal scene involving men arriving in 'Barbieland' with the intention of bringing two women back to the real world. This moment raised a question ...
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Understanding the Emotional Shift in '12 Angry Men' (1957): From Outburst to Tears in the Not-Guilty Verdict
I recently watched the classic 1957 film '12 Angry Men' and found myself puzzled by a particular scene towards the end. In this scene, one of the jurors, who had been vehemently arguing that the boy ...
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Why Does Batman Exhibit Extreme Anger Towards the Joker in the Jail Scene of 'The Dark Knight'?
In 'The Dark Knight', there's a particularly intense scene where Batman confronts the Joker in jail. Throughout the movie, Batman consistently avoids inflicting fatal harm on the Joker, even risking ...
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The Emotional Complexity in the 'Oppenheimer' Atomic Bomb Test Scene
In the film "Oppenheimer", there's a powerful scene following the Trinity atomic bomb test where the crowd's reaction is a mix of applause and tears.
I noticed ...
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Why does d'Hubert save Feraud?
When d'Hubert learns that Feraud is awaiting execution in The Duellists, he approaches Fouche to take Feraud's name off the execution list- but why, when he could've let him be put to death and gotten ...
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How many inceptions actually happened in 'Inception'?
In Christopher Nolan's Inception, the core concept revolves around the team's mission to implant a specific idea into Robert Fischer's mind, ultimately influencing him to dismantle his father's empire....
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How did they get powers in the first place?
In the Korean web series "Moving" (Korean: 무빙), it is mentioned that the children inherit their powers from their parents.
I'm curious about how the parents acquired their abilities in the ...
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Whose days are numbered, according to the players?
Molly,while running a poker game, listened to the players talk about China's telecom firms
and their intention to collaborate, as well as their spending of $30 million on an outfielder
who had a .320 ...
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How does Moss know there is two million dollars in the satchel since he did not go through it?
Moss, before he found the transponder, said to his wife, "When would you stop looking for your two million dollars?" How did he know there was that amount of money in the satchel without ...
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Why didn't Goodwin provide the James Snodgrass' evidence to the court?
In the 1994 movie The Quiz Show congressional lawyer Goodwin investigates a popular quiz show for possible rigging.
He finds a concrete evidence by watching one of the contestants' show (James ...
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Why did Roman give up the diamonds?
In the 2020 movie I Care A Lot, Marla who has stolen a mafia family's diamonds as a predatory guardian for the old mother of the family (without knowing who she is). Marla is kidnapped and tortured by ...
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Why does Molly have to make restitution to the victims of Brad's Ponzi scheme?
A young woman named Molly runs poker games, but one of her players,
Brad, is involved in a Ponzi scheme. As a result, Molly is being investigated by
FBI agents and questioned about who attended her ...
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What's the purpose of dissolving the ink in glass of water?
Molly believes that there was one Yankee in particular that every man in
America would line up to lose to. In a motel room, she sits with a group of
young women whom she has hired to start a poker ...
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Why did the warships stray from the convoy?
At the beginning of Greyhound, two ships strayed 6 miles away from the rest of the convoy.
Why was this? Were they fleeing or did they already know about the:
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What was the relationship between Steve, Fischer, and Fischer's sister?
In S3E10 "Lois' Makeover", Lois starts wearing heavy makeup after a poor performance review. However, at the end of the episode, a man sees her in the parking lot and asks "How much? Is ...
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Why does Exley link Jack’s motive to the Night Owl events?
In the records room, after the brawl between Exley and Bud White over
Lynn Bracken had settled down, Exley expresses his views to Bud White
that three African American men were wrongly framed as Night ...
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Is Bud White being truthful when he says that Dick Stensland is pretending?
On Christmas night, Bud White met Lynn, Buzz Meeks, and Susan Lefferts,
took bullets from Buzz’s firearm, and asked Dick Stensland about Buzz:
Bud White: You know him?
Dick Stensland: Yeah, I've seen ...
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Sixth sense and lack of forethought [duplicate]
Shouldn't Malcom have know not necessarily hes dead but something was wrong? The plot takes place several months to a year after hes shot, so who assigned him to cole? How did he not realize he ...
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Why did Roderick and Madeline make this agreement?
In The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Roderick and Madeline enter a pub on New Year's Eve. They get talking to the bar woman, who eventually reveals
That's fine for Madeline - she doesn't have any - but ...
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What's the purpose of this scene at the last?
At the beginning of the movie Molly's Game (2017), Molly trips over a stick while skiing and
ends her skiing career. The scene then cuts to a hospital scene where
Molly is lying in bed.
But at the end ...
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Why is Jack upset suddenly in this scene?
In L.A Confidential (1997), Exley visited Miss Bracken, who works for Pierce Patchett’s Fleur-de-Lis service,
to inquire about her meeting with Bud White. However, things took an unexpected
turn when ...
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In The Fall of the House of Usher, why did Verna go so far at Perry's party?
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Now, look back at the first death of the Ushers - Perry's death, I wonder why she didn't spare all the partygoers at Perry's party. They aren't Usher. She did spare the lives of the ...
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Why was the courtroom empty during the pre-climax scene?
In the middle of the Molly's Game (2017) movie, during the courtroom scene, we see
that the courtroom is crowded:
But in the pre-climax scene, which took place in the courtroom, the judge
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Why did Molly say this lines in this scene?
In a room scene from Molly's Game (2017), the lawyer's daughter enters with papers in hand. The lawyer,
alone with his client Molly, sees the essays and is impressed. He then
sends his daughter out.
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Why is Gerald McCloy able to imitate sound effects only?
I recall watching 2005 TV series Gerald McBoing-Boing.
He was a human child living with his parents and their dog. He also had several friends of his age.
But he was odd. He was communicating with ...
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In Fear the Walking Dead, season 4, is there an inconsistency as to Madison's reunion with the group?
In season 4, at some point (I think in the "Just in Case" episode) Victor Strand recalls how he was saved by Madison (first from drowning, and then being nursed back to health). But then in ...
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Why did aarti mahajan went to take help from CBI if she was the culprit?
In the movie Rahasya why did aarti mahajan went to take help from CBI when she knew she committed the murder?
Aarti mahajan paid the cop bribe for butchering the investigation and putting his husband ...
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What does "Fix this up" mean?
With tight security in Molly's Game (2017), player Shelly attempted to put a 7 million dollar Monet painting
as payment for the poker game, but Molly, the person running the poker game, rejected
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Do nightclubs have scoreboard for waitresses?
In Molly's Game (2017), Dean, who is regular to the club, speaks to Molly, a waitress at club:
Dean: People seem to take to you. How would you like to get paid to
go to grad school and get an MBA in ...
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Why did Exley give a newspaper to Jones, out of all the suspects, before interrogating him?
Using the information provided by Leonard in exchange for reducing his
brother’s sentence in L.A Confidential (1997), Jack and Exley visited the location of the Night Owl
suspects and arrested all ...
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What did Murph achieve with Coop's data? [duplicate]
Maybe it isn't meant to be known. At the end of Interstellar we see a colony off Saturn. Although it wasn't explicitly stated, it appears at least some of the population of Earth was able to be ...
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How will new players be attracted if the regulars are experienced?
In Molly's Game (2017), Molly used to work as a waitress at the nightclub and now she is running poker games
She reached out to the nightclub workers with the intention of convincing them to direct
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What does "Can you still" mean?
In The Departed (2006), Dr Madolyn shows her ultrascan report to Sullivan:
Dr Madolyn: And they say that this little speck... is a penis.
Sullivan: It's a boy.
Dr Madolyn: Yeah, well, one usually ...
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Why didn't the green fluid affect Agent Spender?
In The X-Files S05E11, Two Fathers, Agent Jeffrey Spender is asked by the Cigarette Smoking Man to prove his allegiance once more, and ordered to kill a rebel alien who is masquerading as a member of ...
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What did Jimmy do with the Lufthansa $6M cash?
In Goodfellas, Jimmy Conway masterminds the Lufthansa heist which yields $6M in cash (as per the narrator at 1:38:05).
Jimmy "kicked some money upstairs to Paulie" (at 1:48:21). Then, he ...
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Why does the officer think Jack would claim their efforts at the suspect's house?
In L.A Confidential (1997), while facing temporary suspension as a technical advisor for the "Badge of Honor" show and
working in Vice, Jack and Exley visit the suspect's house, where two of ...
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Why didn't Jack answer Leonard's question?
Officers Jack and Exley visit Leonard in L.A Confidential (1997), who is working out on a speed bag. They ask for
his help in identifying suspects. Leonard agrees when Jack offers to reduce his ...
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What does detective Somerset mean when he is talking about John Doe's insanity plea?
In Se7en, John Doe turns himself in, asks for a lawyer and then proposes a deal to lead Det. Mills and Det. Somerset to the last 2 bodies. However, if they refuse, he announces he will plead insanity ...
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Why didn't the Bug just kill J and K after taking their weapons?
During the climax of Men in Black, the two agents shot the ship the Bug was using to escape and brought him back to the ground. As soon as the Bug was out, he took away their weapons and showed them ...
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In Dolittle how do different species speak to each other?
In the 2020 movie Dolittle (a.k.a The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle) there are humans and animals.
Doctor Dolittle has learned different languages of the animals, so he can communicate with any animal (of ...
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What does "the chicken" refer to?
On a monitor in The Departed (2006), Sullivan identifies everyone present with Irish Mob boss
Frank near the building that they have under AV surveillance nearby.
Frank checks his phone and sees a ...
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Why did Pierce state his full name in this scene?
After coming to know that one of the victims from the Night Owl murders happened to be
Lefferts in L.A Confidential (1997), Bud White recollected having seen Lefferts alongside Pierce on Christmas ...
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Why didn't Thorwald close his windows while carrying the body parts that night?
Why didn't Thorwald simply close his windows when he was scared if someone gonna watch him?
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Who killed Summer in "Reptile", and how is the witness's description of the killer having a limp relevant?
In Reptile (2023), Tom (Benicio del Toro) and Cleary (Ato Essandoh) interviewed a witness, Brenda, who described the man who entered the house where Summer (Matilda Lutz) was killed as someone who &...
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Were the men walking in the quad a hallucination as well?
In the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind Charles (who is a hallucination of John Nash) smashed the latter's desk through the window to the snowy quad. Then two men who were walking in the quad were shocked ...
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How did the card get into the vault in Now You See Me?
In the movie Now You See Me, the 'Four Horsemen' rob a French bank and later reveal that the robbery was
I understood the trick, but what I don’t get is how the signed card and the show poster ended ...
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Why don't John Nash's delusional persons age?
In the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind John Nash has schizophrenia and he sees unreal persons (his roommate, his roommate's niece, and a dangerous spy).
He realizes he has the disease in 1953 and starts ...
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Why did they laugh in this scene?
In The Departed (2006), Frank completes his phone call with Sullivan about the existence of an
undercover cop in his crew while standing under a bridge. As he walks away,
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Is Luc Deveraux still a protagonist in the last Universal Soldier film?
In the Universal Soldier franchise Luc Deveraux (mostly played by Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a Universal Soldier created by the government to go on several missions to save the country and its people.
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