DW and I just watched it. It was OK, but a couple of inconsistencies are bothering me. Maybe someone can help me...
1) When the movie started we saw Linda's "first" day which was Thursday. She takes the girls to school. The older girl (Bridget?) does not have cuts on her face, while in fact we were told later that her face was cut before Jim died.
2) On Wednesday -towwrd the end -LInda is at the scene of Jim's fatal accident. The crash is such that the car was engulfed in flames. How could there have been enough of the corpse left for a casket on Saturday. Remember how Jim's head tumbled across the parking lot on Saturday?
When this kind of movie breaks its own rules it just takes a lot of enjoyment out of it for me.
the girl did go through the glass earlier and should have had cuts on Thursday. I didn't catch that when the mom dropped them off, because it was the beginning of the movie and I didn't think to look. My guess is the reason she didn't have cuts was that it was the beginning of the movie.
I wondered about that thing with his head, too. I was watching for it to come out during the crash (I'm macabre like that) and it didn't. So how does it roll out when they conveniently drop the casket at the exact moment she's asking what was severed? (I thought that was funny.)
Another thing that bugged me was that Linda only knew she was supposed to go see her husband's mistress to-be because the woman told her at the funeral that they'd spoken the day before. Why did she go??? And how did she happen to have the home addres of a brand new employee at her husband's office??? I dunno, maybe I'm being slow.
Finally, when she comes downstairs in her shirt, there are a bunch of people dressed in black sitting in her living room. Why? Do people have get-togethers before funerals? I've only heard of that happening after the funeral.
Finally, all the times people asked her what was wrong, even when she knew what was going on, why didn't she tell anyone????
And if her mom and friend called the shrink to come haul her away (which is what I assume, as the mom let him right in and he said hello to her friend), why didn't they have the kids upstairs or get them upstairs as soon as he showed up? Who would actually wait until the mom was being carried out, kicking and screamin, to try to get the kids upstairs?
And why, when she was being carried out, why did she apologize to the girls??
I had other questions, I just don't remember them all.