Every time Nicholas enters his gate at home, it it daylight and then when he drives up to the house it is night. Either he has a 300 mile property or there is something else going on. It would appear that it is deliberate as it happens many times in the film. Symbolically, Nick is leaving the world as he appears with wealth and privilege (light) and entering the real van Orton world of solitude and sadness (dark). See more...
Directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
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The movie is set in October, yet when characters pass by a Hallmark shop in one scene, we see signs inside the store promoting Father's Day. [Due to the extreme nature of The Game, it is quite possible that the store was in on it too, especially given the circumstances with Nick's father.]
At the end, Christine informs Nicholas that the machine guns shooting at them throughout the movie were shooting blanks. Yet the bullets actually did damage to several objects (ie: the windshield of the car). [Being how elaborate the set up was and to what lengths they went it could be conceived they used small explosive charges in certain places to make it seem as if they were being shot at.]
Corrected by Lummie
Nicholas (Michael Douglas) sits at the airport when a guy in the seat opposing him is staring at him. Nicholas asks if he can help him and the guy says nothing, he just keeps looking at him. After that, Nicholas notices that his pen is leaking ink. The next shot, you see him cleaning his shirt in the restrooms. This is obviously a different shirt, since the colour is different and it has little stripes on it. [The shirt is the same; we see in a close-up before the leak that it has a fine checked pattern, which appears as plain pale blue from a distance, and in the restroom the lighting is dim, making the colour appear slightly different.]
Corrected by Jez
We learn that everything was staged by CRS but are we to believe they are so good that they predicted the exact spot that Nicholas would jump from? They even got a big X on the mattress in which he could have jumped from any point of that roof. Even 2-3 meters to the left or to the right would lead him to fall not on the mattress but on the floor and die. [How can we believe that CRS could predict every one of Nicholas' actions and thoughts throughout the entire movie if they can't precisely determine where he would land if he jumped off a building? Something about Nicholas' psyche made him choose that point to jump at and CRS determined this ahead of time. Feingold says that if Nicholas didn't jump properly it was his job to throw him off - this is a safety measure in case they didn't call it correctly.]
On the rooftop, Nick shoots his brother Conrad then tries to kill himself by stepping over the edge of the building. You can see from the shots that it's a very high building, yet when Nick hits the big 'cushion' on the floor, he gets up and there he sees his brother and Christine, along with several other people that were on the roof when Conrad 'died'. Unless they, too, jumped down or something, they couldn't have gotten down there so fast. [Nick is instructed to lie on the airbag for some time, while they get to him, remove the breakaway glass from his body and he's checked over by the paramedics. A reasonably fast lift would be able to get them there in time.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
After the driver of the cab that goes into the bay bails out of the car his door is obviously open, but when the car goes into the water it is closed. [When the cab hits the water, it rolls to the left right onto the driver's door. You can see this at regular speed. The impact with the water closes the door.]
Before going to the hospital Michael Douglas is told by the cops to hop in the ambulance and he does so without taking his briefcase. However when he gets out of the ambulance you can see the briefcase sitting in the back. [Michael Douglas is actually holding the briefcase in his right hand and you can see him place it into the back of the ambulance.]
After the car goes into the water it takes a long time before water starts coming into the car. When it does, it shoots into the car like some seal was broken. In reality cars are so full of ways for water to get in, that the car starts to fill with water as soon as it goes in. [Given what we later find out, it's perfectly plausible that the taxi was waterproofed].
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