I just saw the bit where Catherine Zeta-Jones mails photos to Jude Law’s wife. I don’t understand. I don’t see his face in the photos. Is he in the photos? If not, why is his wife mad? If so, then, I guess he was sleeping with Rooney Mara? Or what? I don’t understand what’s happening.
Did you actually watch the film or just that one scene? How could you think he was sleeping with Rooney Mara’s character if you saw the film?
Earlier in the film Jude Law and Rooney Mara are talking in the hotel lobby. She shows him that she bought something from Victoria’s Secret for her husband. Later on we find out that it was all a setup and Catherine Zeta Jones was spying on him, taking pictures showing the two sitting together making it look like Rooney Mara had bought the VS item for Jude Law. Catherine mails the photos to Law’s wife and the wife sees them and thinks he is having an affair with Mara.
Of course the audience knows none of it is true and that he was set up. I really don’t see how any of that could possibly have been confusing.
I didn’t think he was, nor did I say I thought he was. Read for comprehension, and don’t be a jerk.
This is because you’re a jerk. It is often very difficult for jerks to understand other people’s reactions to things. This is part of what makes them jerks.
The way it could have been confusing was if a person saw briefly flashed photos of ambiguous scenes with barely discernible faces–especially the face of the male in question–and didn’t see how they justified the reaction of the wife. By the reaction, one would assume they were somehow very damning. But by the plot of the film so far, it wasn’t clear how damning photos could have existed. And by the reaction of the male himself, it wasn’t clear at all what the correct explanation was.
Combine this with the fact that the film had already shown that it wasn’t playing all its cards, that plot points were being withheld at some times, and it seemed possible (though not probable, but not absolutely eliminable) that there had been something going on between the psychiatrist and his patient.
Another possibility I was ready to hear was that they weren’t pictures of the patient in the film at all, but rather were pictures of him with the other patient from his past that had been discussed. Again, faces difficult to see and all, leading to confusion.
All bad and implausible plot twists to be sure but in a moment of confusion many implausible things must seem possible.
I didn’t recognize the scene from the hotel lobby, and though I’m sure plenty of people would have, it is clear that the filmmakers didn’t expect it to be a trivially easy catch since they went on to explain the source of that photo to us idiots later on in the film.