When watching movie/TV, and I am engaged, I can easily suspend belief with the most ridiculous scenarios. But the internal logic needs to work. When it doesn’t I can rattle off my issues with it as a list at the end.
I wouldn’t notice if someone’s watch was on the left wrist one scene and right wrist the next. That’s a mistake, not bad writing.
I’m watching Safe on Netflix… so far… off the top of my head:
- The surgeon releases stress by punching a bag – that’s not a thing
- Bright daylight becomes night in the time it takes to walk half a mile
- Someone gets the IP address of a text message and manages to install a tracker on their phone
- Someone falls into a lake but when they climb into the car shortly after they are dry
- They are struggling to get a body up warehouse steps and then suddenly they are back home with the body – which would’ve taken more effort
- In a car chase the chased gets a 5 second advantage and the chaser instantly says, well we’ve lost him
- The police don’t immediately check the CCTV of the gated community
- The “suspects” try to act normal by having a BBQ, with no guests and no sound and high fences – nobody would have noticed
- The blood on the sweat shirt is way too substantial for the blood nose of the fight he broke up. It was sodden
- And, sorry, but the ethnic mix in a gated estate in the UK seems forced, too PC