Sunday, April 6, 2008

Fracture

Continuity: When Willy Beachum, visits Jennifer Crawford in the hospital for the first time, his watch reads 6:15 while the clock on the wall says 12:50. When Willy is called and told to appear at the arraignment at 3:00, which is "in 15 minutes," his watch clearly shows the time to be 12:40.

  • Factual errors: By the expert's testimony in court we are informed that Ted Crawford's bullet pierced through the frontal cortex in the temporal lobe coming to rest upon the upper side of the brain against the skull. Yet when we see wife Jennifer's head hit the floor for a brief moment in a close-up, there is no injury visible at all. Furthermore in another scene Ted points to his left cheek bone when he describes where he shot his wife. Such an injury is very different from that described during the trial. The shot was fired at close range with a powerful .45, which makes it very unlikely that the bullet would come to rest within the skull.


  • Continuity: In the sequence that introduces Willy's character he is wearing a gray three-piece suit and red striped tie. Later in the film and the plot he is shown once again dressing in the same exact outfit in a montage leading up to his arrival in court and is seen arriving in court wearing it. However, the next shot reveals him in the courtroom wearing a brown two-piece suit and brown striped tie.

  • Factual errors: At the beginning of the movie when EMTs are working with Jennifer Crawford, they are heard saying "she has a pulse" and then administering chest compressions. According to BLS, when the patient has a palpable pulse, chest compressions are not administered.

  • Errors in geography: When Willy Beachum is rushing to the hospital to serve the court order, he is shown clearly driving on the 10 freeway and then exiting to go to the hospital. The hospital is St. Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach which is nowhere near the 10 freeway.

  • Continuity: Towards the end when Beachum calls on Crawford, Crawford looks in a security monitor. Under the monitor there is a security panel for an alarm system. When the shot changes, the panel is gone, then appears again.

  • Continuity: When Willy is walking into Crawford's house he is talking on his cell phone, which is in his left hand. He pauses and leans by a door frame and then straightens up to continue walking, this time holding his cell phone in his right hand, with no time to have switched hands.

  • Revealing mistakes: As Jennifer Crawford pulls into her driveway, she passes a sign that reads "Parking Lot Full", apparently referring to the Crawford's property.

  • Revealing mistakes: In the scene immediately after Willy's first visit to the victim in the hospital, there is a pan of the Hollywood sign as he's driving. The blue license plate is a negative (all letters and numbers backwards), which means the scene was flipped.


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