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Twelve years?

posted 3 years ago by Boricanator (1380)
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I looked up the film on wikipedia and I found this.

Twelve years ago, Ernesto "Chili" Palmer, a small-time loan shark based in Miami, gets his jacket stolen by Ray "Bones" Barboni, a mobster from another crew. Chili clocks Bones when he takes his jacket back, and when Bones comes calling for some payback, Chili shoots him in the head, leaving Bones with an ugly scar and disposition towards Chili, but unable to do anything about it because the bosses of their crews don’t want a war.

Twelve years later, the boss of Chili’s crew gets killed and Bones inherits Chili’s list, which has to be handed over with up to date payments. Chili has written one of them off since the client, a dry cleaner, died in a plane crash, but it turns out that the dry cleaner didn’t board the plane after checking in and has scammed the airline out of $300,000 in life insurance, which he is enjoying in Vegas.

So, twelve years pass since the coat incident and Momo dying? Plus, it says Momo is killed, when he really died of a heart attack.

Did the movie ever explain twelve years passed?

[–] damocci (1503) 2 years ago

I am watching it now and it just cuts from the coat debacle to Momo dying at his surprise party with no hint of how much time has passed. To me it looked like maybe a couple weeks had passed. I have no idea where this "twelve years" comes from because after Momo's death Bones shows up at the hair salon and his broken nose and head scar still look pretty fresh. He even sounds like he has a blocked nose.

[–] JepGambardella (469) 8 months ago

I just finished reading the book, then I rewatched the movie. In the book it's pretty clear that the coat incident happened twelve years earlier. In the movie there is no indication that that's the case.