It is interesting how films can be mis-remembered.
I'm an ER MD by training, and last year at the AUSTIN FF responded to
"Is there a doctor...?" I found a man whose head was in pool of blood
flat on the sidewalk outside the theater , and I mean a pool of blood
as this fellow was on coumadin, a blood thinner than can make you blood
as fluid as water.
(He did fine, but for a moment I was worried about a sniper as that was
a lot of blood for a fall and I thought at first an artery must have
been severed from a bullet as it was the same time as the Washington
area sniper events).
The point is that the image was in my head when I saw THE HOURS which
includes the suicide scene with ED Harris hurling himself out the
window...well in my mind, I image him on the ground in a pool of blood,
that same image I saw for real in Austin. Is is easy to mis-remember
films, even on a visual level with all the other info in our heads.
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