The Final Cut (2004)
Goofs
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Anachronisms (1) |
Audio/visual unsynchronised (1) |
Crew or equipment visible (1) |
Factual errors (2) |
Revealing mistakes (1) |
Spoilers (2)
Anachronisms
If a person lived 60 years, excluding sleep, there would be over 350,000 hours of film. A cutter wouldn't live long enough to edit that much, even with fast forwarding.
Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Fletcher is threatening Alan, as we cut to a wide shot, his mouth stops moving but the audio continues.
Crew or equipment visible
When the movie dollies back to a wide shot of Alan doing his work with a large number of little screens in the background, one of the scenes on the left shows the supposed subject looking at a urinal. From there, the subject turns around and looks at a mirror, revealing a woman holding a camcorder.
Factual errors
The paper announcing Bannister's death states that he was 54 when he died. But, when Alan loads his implant for the first time, it states that there are 544,628 life hours to review. That number of hours would make him over 62 years of age.
In the beginning of the movie he reviews the life of someone from birth..to death. It would be hard to imagine the implant being in before actual birth, plus since baby eyes don't focus for some six months, there wouldn't be clear images anyway.
Revealing mistakes
When Bannister takes his daughter into his study, he closes the door. The visual record is shot along the length of his arm, so either his eyes are in the middle of his chest, or the camera was shooting from too low.
Spoilers
Continuity
When Alan is shot he looks at his hand and sees blood on it. His index finger is clean and in the next shot the index finger is covered in blood.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
In the final shot of the movie, Alan is seen looking at himself in the mirror. He turns away and exits the frame and the scene ends. If the camera is in his eye, his field of vision would have changed, and even if the camera was just in his body, it would not have remained there as he exited the screen. This is a deliberate mistake by the filmmakers. DVD commentary verifies this is to have a poignant and ending and to throw the audience off at the last second.
