Uh Huh Her

And another Sunday has passed where I forgot all about the Unconscious Mutterings. This is a good thing, because I was off in the physical world, hanging out with good friends, having a wonderful time. Here are this week's offerings:

• Newspaper :: Fränkische Nachrichten, where my father used to work. Köln/Bonner Rundschau, my brother's paper. And my local paper, the San Jose Mercury News.
• DVD :: Collateral, which we watched last night. Good score, coolly filmed, Jamie Foxx was really good, and Tom Cruise looked good all in grey, but I could not suspend my disbelief. How about a story that actually makes sense?
• Resolution :: 92 dpi
• Intimate :: I don't kiss and tell. But I'll tell you this much: sure was nice. Sigh.
• Song :: mostly PJ Harvey for about a week now.
• Essential :: oils
• Whistle :: greyhound
• Glass :: Annie
• Countdown :: starter pistol
• Child :: ish

Comments

[fling93]

Hmm, I thought Collateral was plausible enough until that whole end part.

[Elke Sisco]

If you were a hitman, would you:
1. take a cab (so you have an extra witness)?
2. take the cab to the exact address of where you are going to kill somebody, instead of have him waiting at the corner at least?
3. stick with the same cabbie all night, so he can get more dirt on you?
4. leave the cabbie alone in the cab so he can attract the attention of innocent bystanders, so you can kill even more people?

If you were the cabbie, would you:
1. drive the hitman as efficiently as possible to the next address he told you?
2. not just do what he did before the last address, namely run a bunch of red lights, run the cab out of control and crash it?
3. not tell the cops who pulled you over that you needed help to get away from the psychopath in the backseat?

[fling93]

I assumed Cruise planned on killing Foxx at the end of the night, so any info he got would be irrevelant. And I think Foxx being intimidated into going along at first was perfectly believable. I think a lot of carjackings occur where the victim is the driver held at gunpoint. "Six Feet Under" had an excellent and very realistic episode where David drove a crackhead psychopath around (and indeed, my watching that episode only a week before seeing Collateral is what mostly ruined it for me). And had Foxx told the cops, Cruise would merely have killed them as well, as they wouldn't have had a chance against him.

But I thought the crash and onward was rather unbelievable. Foxx impersonating him was stretching it a bit as well, but I can see why Cruise would put him in that situation.