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 didn't the driver shake Bernie's hand?
When the driver and Bernie meet at the track after a test run of the driver's skill, Bernie says 'nice to meet you' and extends his hand for a handshake. Yet the driver refuses at first citing a (bs) ...
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Who does Lucky call in Lucky (2017)?
Lucky calls someone twice in Lucky (2017), first to ask, "Is realism a thing?" and the second time to share a personal story. I've never figured out who is on the other side of the phone.
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Why did Mrs Gump feel that Elvis Presley's Hound Dog was inappropriate for children?
Young Forrest Gump and Mrs Gump were out shopping, and walked right by Benson's furniture
and appliance store. They came across a TV set playing Elvis Presley "Hound Dog" song:
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Who dies in A Death In The Gunj?
A Death In The Gunj shows a family who's come down on holidays in a remote town in India.
The opening scene of the movie is a shot of any implied dead body in the trunk of a car, which is being ...
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Fauda questions - tattoo and sarin [closed]
"Episode 1.06"
Boaz attempts to make his capturers believe he is Muslim, which works
until Taufiq recognizes his tattoo as the man who killed Bashir.
Taufiq was not present on the wedding. ...
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Did Doc Brown send his clocks 25 minutes into the future?
In the opening scene of Back to the Future, Marty arrives at Doc's place to play guitar. After blowing himself across the room 🤣, Doc calls Marty on the phone. In the middle of the conversation, ...
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Why does Chuck McGill end the season like this?
At the end of the Season 3 of Better Call Saul, Chuck McGill ends (I think) with a full win situation and obtains everything he wants:
He manages to extort a huge severance payout ($3 million) from ...
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How did the Fizzle Bomber blow anything up if he was shot? [duplicate]
In Predestination the Fizzle Bomber was shot by John before the March attack happened, so how could the attack have happened?
There are similar questions like this, but they don't address the question ...
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What is the reason that Obi-Wan lied to Luke by telling him that Darth Vader killed his father?
In the Star Wars movie A New Hope (1977), when Luke meets Obi-Wan in the first time, Obi-Wan takes luke to his home. Then Luke and Obi-Wan have the below conversation:
LUKE SKYWALKER - How ...
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What does this object on the floor in Whiplash mean
In Whiplash (2014) at the beginning of the hazing scene around 15:48 there is a frame with a close up of an object on the floor that looked like a fly to me at first. However it does not move and I ...
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What is the problem with a planet where everything is "on a cob"?
In season 2, episode 10 of Rick and Morty, "The Wedding Squanchers", Rick and the Smith family evaluate an Earth-like planet for habitation, only to discover that everything is "on a cob" (Video).
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How did Sonny buy the hotel?
In The Second Best Marigold hotel after the hotel inspector resigns Sonny offers to drive them...
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Very soon after this Sonny announces that he has bought it with help from his investor.
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What happened to Amy in The Equalizer 2 (2018)?
I never understood what really happened to Amy, the girl who was taken to the Massachusetts General Hospital by McCall.
The Wikipedia article says that she was assaulted. If so, why?
Was she raped?
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Where is Richard's thumb drive?
In the finale of Silicon Valley Richard tells interviewers that he still has the entire code base of Pied Piper's distributed internet on a thumb drive. But he is not able to locate it.
My question is ...
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How does Turing's dialogue about lying connect to the decision to let the passenger convoy sink?
Do you know why people like violence, Hugh?
It's because it feels good.
Sometimes we can't do what feels good.
We have to do what is logical.
- What's logical?
Hardest time to lie to somebody is when ...
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What does Madam Blanc look at?
This question is regarding Suspiria 2018.
At about 2hrs into the film, Suzy is sitting with the rest of the girls at the restaurant, she & Blanc staring at each other. Blanc's gaze slightly ...
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Jenny Curran's cause of death; wouldn't both Forrest and little Forrest have it also?
If the consensus on Jenny Curran's death in Forrest Gump is HIV or Hep C, wouldn't both Forrest and little Forrest have it also? It doesn't seem feasible to me that she could have had either one of ...
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Were the Woods an enchanted location?
Were the Woods from the Into the Woods an enchanted location that influenced people who entered it, or events that transpired in it, due to its inherent eldritch properties?
Or was it an ordinary ...
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Did Hope know her blood would heal Jossie Saltzman
In the latest Legacies episode (S01E16), Hope went to Triad Organisation's place (in GA) to save Landon. After she reached there, Landon told her about Malivore and its/his history, might have ...
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Why did Saul miss Walden's memorial service at Langley to go to Nazir's burial at sea?
I am really puzzled by this. Saul from Homeland missed the memorial service of the Vice President of the United States in order to attend a burial of a terrorist. Why would he do this?
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How to explain the end of the game from the point of view of the kids?
In Jumanji (1995) Robin Williams' character is sucked into a board game as a kid in 1969, while his friend Sarah escapes. He lives in the game-world jungle for 26 years until two different kids bring ...
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Were Kate, Beau and Vic's deaths coincidental, or where they specifically targeted because of their proximity to the main characters?
In the science fiction series Glitch, the characters Kate, Beau and Vic all die in quick succession in ways that are apparently unrelated to each other, and unrelated to the main story arch (...
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What made Lord Vader stay with Palpatine after he'd killed Padme?
In the 3rd episode of the series ("The Revenge of the Sith"), in the ending we see that Anakin kills Padme. Then he fights Obi-Wan, loses, and the Emperor saves him. When Vader asks if Padme'...
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What happened to Adam Warlock on Counter-Earth?
Our heroes fly to Counter-Earth to collect the secret code that should enable them to heal their friend Rocket. Adam Warlock arrives in their wake, hoping to apprehend them and thus save his people, &...
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Did Tyler Durden diegetically hijack someones car?
When the Narrator in Fight Club is done struggling to retrieve his luggage at the airport, he sees Tyler hop into a red convertible with the car's owner yelling the following.
"Hey! That's my ...
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How was Paul's ending different enough?
In the beginning of CQ, the director of Code Name Dragonfly, on which Paul works as an editor, is fired because the studio execs think his ending is too dull (one calls it an action movie with no ...
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Why does Kido honor Frank in Man in the High Castle?
This refers to The Man in the High Castle S3/Ep9 "Baku".
When Kido takes Frank to his place of execution, he chooses a location--a former Japanese internment camp--where Frank's symbol has been ...
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Could Hank really have pulled footage of Jesse's RV from the ATM?
In Season 3 Episode 4 ("Green Light") of Breaking Bad, Hank is able to determine what Jesse's RV looks like by pulling footage from a gas station ATM camera:
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Why did Hermie do this to Joe?
In Mank (2020), Joe and Hermie are sitting in a corner of a resturant.
They both discuss about the Screen Writers Guild:
Joe: Hermie, the guild's in its infancy. It needs you.
Hermie: You're telling ...
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What's the meaning of "First one dies, you die too"?
Right after the scene where Goose hits the jettisoned aircraft canopy head-first and is killed,
Maverick is shown washing his face and Viper meets him:
Viper: You fly jets long enough, something like ...
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Why did Jean Valjean die?
In Les Misérables (2012), I can't understand why Jean Valjean died at the end. There was no reason given in the movie. Jean Valjean was sitting on a chair inside the convent and was praying and said,
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2067 Plot Hole Explanation
In 2067 (2020), the main character's father tells him over the phone to go for a walk, seemingly knowing that his mother would be murdered, and that he'd meet the other side character as a result. I ...
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How does Jesse connect the dots in S05E11?
I'm struggling to understand the ending of Breaking Bad S05E11.
At the end of the episode Jesse realizes that Huell stole the cigarettes and confronts Saul about it.
At one point, Jesse flat out says:...
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How much time does Nemo spend trapped inside?
In the movie Inside (2023) we get hints of the passage of time - Nemo spends some time entertained with a pigeon outside; he follows the staff through the cameras in the building; he changes ...
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Why wasn't Cage strapped in for the final raid?
At end of Edge of Tomorrow, when Cage and Rita and the crew are flying to the Louvre, the crew starts jumping out of the transport. Rita looks at Cage with a surprised look and says something like "...
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Why did the Reavers attack other planets instead of each other?
In Firefly, we are introduced to the Reavers; humans who were claimed to have reached the edge of space and went mad from seeing the endlessness of it all. Causing their entire mental state to ...
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What are the Blue Rings in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'?
I recently watched "Bram Stoker's Dracula" from 1992.
When Johnathan enters the castle of Dracula, some sort of blue rings appear in front of the castle door. What do they do?
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Why did Maverick toss this character's dog tags into the sea?
In Top Gun (1986),
and Maverick throws his dog tags into the sea.
Maverick was fond of this character, so why would he throw their dog tags away?
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Why does William shoot arrows at the axe in this scene?
In this scene from The Great Wall, William and Tovar are fighting the beasts. Tovar throws his axe in the air, and then William shoots arrows at it.
Why is William shooting arrows at the axe?
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Why didn't Tobey tell the police that Julia could confirm Dino was with them before the illegal race?
During the interrogation in Need for Speed, the police state that Dino has two witnesses to verify he wasn't at the race (the one where Pete died), he was someplace else, but Julia and the buyer saw ...
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What is the significance of the boy crossing the road in the opening scene?
In Ghostland, AKA Incident in a Ghostland, the opening scene is of a boy (identified in the credits as 'Amish Boy') crossing a road and stopping in the middle of the road just after the Keller family'...
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Why didn't Iceman answer the Slider's question?
In Top Gun (1986), enemy flighters shot down flighter name Hollywood so Iceman and Slider
trying to take them down:
Iceman: I'm going after them. I'm bringing it around to the left.
SLIDER: We got ...
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Who wrote the message on the stone?
In the movie Synchronic Brianna is sitting down on a stone during a birthday party and there's an inscription carved in the stone that says "All ways" (or "Always", I can't ...
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High Moon (The Lotus Caves) Floating Eyeballs
High Moon is a (very loose) TV adaptation of the 1969 book The Lotus Caves. It was started as a pilot for a Syfy TV series, but eventually the series was declined. The Pilot was rigged into an ...
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How did Cobb come to the basement using the elevator?
In the movie Inception when Cobb is dreaming about his wife Ariadne enters his dream and lands up in an elevator with each floor containing Cobb's memory of Mal.
In this scene Ariadne enters the ...
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Is Maverick's rank in the competition tied to his father's classified information?
At Charlie's residence in Top Gun (1986), Charlie is lying on the couch and Maverick speaks about his father:
Maverick: My old man was a great fighter pilot. But who the hell
knows? It's all ...
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Where did all the people in the Quantum Realm come from?
Minor Quantumania spoilers ahead:
In Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, we find that Janet spent an unknown amount of time all alone in the Quantum Realm before Kang showed up with a broken MacGuffin ...
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Why does the human blood look colorless in this scene?
In Bumblebee (2018), one of the Decepticons shot the human with their gun, causing the human to explode into what looked like colorless blood:
Why does the human blood look colorless?
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What were the circumstances of Agnes' (Oscar's mother's) death?
Regarding the 1979 Oscar winning movie The Tin Drum, is there an explanation for Oscar's mother's death?
Agnes is officially married to Alfred, but she has an ongoing affair with her cousin Jan - ...
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How does this thing appear at that moment?
In the movie Suzume, there is a scene where the aunt screams at Suzume, accusing her of taking away her youth.
At the time she's screaming, she seems to be out of control, like something has possessed ...
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