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Why would the driver stop?



I of course mean the original limo driver.

It doesn't make any sense.

A car full of young, healthy-looking, able-bodied men dressed in expensive clothing, talking on cell phones and looking like they are able to handle it all perfectly, and the limo driver, who is HIRED to actually pick up the daughter from school, somehow interprets the situation as: "I MUST stop and ask, whether they have car trouble or not".

How? Why? What? Who?

Is he just curious, or what? I mean, can't he DEDUCE FOR HIMSELF that a) There IS car trouble, and b) They do not need his help?

Besides, c) He is paid to pick up the daughter and deliver her back safely.

_W_H_A_T_ could he gained by stopping and asking that idiotic question?

What is the character thinking?

I mean, what were the writers thinking, when they put that scene in this misandristic femifest?

(The misandry starts from the beginning - man scrubbing a tub, woman in expensive clothes nagging - like it's normal or even tolerable state of affairs, and then of course the next bit, where all the men, even when they are _FLEEING_, are ruthlessly murdered, and then the women are spared, although the women are probably more evil than the men, and use their sexual power for monetary gains - and yet, they get talked to very kindly and receive fúcking COMPLIMENTS, while the men just get no justice - just bullets! And then of course the rest of the plot.. the one good thing about this movie is that

it shows women so realistically, that most movies would never dare do it.

Sure, the expressions and the directness is exaggerated - women would never admit so directly that they are golddigging whóres, but the attitudes are completely realistic - and usually the only men, who truly know this, are men, who found out too late.)

Another good thing about this movie is that it features some japanese language, (though VERY awfully pronounced by the gaijins, and the japanese-looking people do not speak much of it - it's almost impossible to understand the bald black guy speaking japanese - not because of what he says is difficult, but because of his HORRIBLE pronunciation - who was responsible for it? WHY do they let celebrity actors get away with ATROCIOUS JAPANESE PRONUNCIATION in movies? (Rowan Atkinson is not much better)) and some japanese culture (which is always interesting).

It's pretty much impossible to find a hollyweird-made movie, where a celebrity actor speaks japanese properly and believably (in that the viewer could actually believe that the character has actually either lived in Japan, or learned to speak japanese well enough to be able to have conversations - instead of just learning the exact phrases that they are uttering). This immediately obliterates the immersion and believability of the whole situation.

It's like a Yakuza member having a mickey mouse tattoo on their backs. That would immediately bring you out from the 'movie world' into the 'real world', and make you realize you are just watching some idiotic movie where the makers had no respect, knowledge or information about the subject they are trying to depict.

Shame on those morons, who think it's ok to let the actors learn those things so badly instead of making sure they REALLY know how to pronounce them properly. And japanese is actually very easy to pronounce (at least if you know how to pronounce something other than english, and understand phonetics) - it's very direct and simple. And english speaking skill actually helps in some otherwise difficult bits.

This movie is really a mess, it doesn't know what it wants to be, except misandristic.

But for some reason, I get the urge to watch it every couple of years or so for some reason - maybe just to refresh my memory of why it's bad. I mean, when humans grow, they sometimes start seeing different movies in different light, and perhaps appreciate things they didn't before. So far, this has not really happened to me when it comes to movies; what I once thought was good, is actually good (at least for the most part, except for the misandry-blindness that I suffered from back then), and what I once thought was awful, is actually awful (or even worse).

But it gives one a fuller perspective on any given movie - when you watch the same movie multiple times during your incarnation, you can see things it slightly differently each time, and pick up different things about it.

Sometimes, however, a movie remains just as shallow, misandristic, idiotic and awful as you viewed it the first time. Your changed perspective doesn't really show you anything new about the movie. Sometimes, "once a turd, always a turd" fits the description.

This is one of those times.





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