Oskar wakes to the sound of an analog alarm clock.
The time on the clock says 6:00, but the little hand that indicates the alarm time says 7:00 (at around 5 mins).
In the segment where Oskar is reading the note his father wrote, his father's voice (while reading the note as a voice over) says that Oskar has shown "unbelievable bravery", but "unwavering bravery" was what was actually written in the note.
Throughout the movie, Oskar's hair goes from being freshly styled, to a few days of growth, then back to freshly styled, in sequential scenes.
The movie takes place in 2002/2003, yet at 01:10:18 in the shot of The Renter's arrow note on the bar door pointing to the door knob and again in a close-up at ~01:11:30 as Oskar peers in through a window, there's a "Recommended by Lonely Planet" sticker from 2007 on the window.
A Megabus drives by in a scene where Oskar is walking through Manhattan.
Megabus didn't start service in NYC until May of 2008.
(The bus is red at 1:03:19, blue at 1:03:32.
) In one scene where Oskar and The Renter discuss 'the search', Oskar wears a turquoise hooded sweater embroidered with a small "Nike 6.
0" logo (at 01:13:08; left chest).
Nike did not release their "Nike 6.
0" line until 2011.
The message that appears on the card that Thomas left for Oskar under the swing is almost entirely different from the one that Tom Hanks reads in voice-over.
When Oskar and his mother are recounting the people Oskar visited, after they discuss Leigh-Anne Black, both clearly refer to "Lona Black" (at 01:49:58 and 01:50:02) as she is shown in flashbacks and the subtitles show both saying Lona Black as well, but the end credits (in order of appearance) list Mona Black after Leigh-Anne Black and do not list Lona Black.
Since no one named Mona Black is mentioned in the film, it is an error in the end credits.
After Oskar runs away from the Blacks in the office building he runs into the subway.
He boards the number 2 train where there are multicolored seats.
The 2 train did not have this pattern of seats then.
In the beginning of the film, Oskar says "There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history.
" There are, in fact, about ninety-eight billion dead people and seven billion people alive right now.
This film is set in 2003, but the facts can't have changed much in nine years.
Oskar was obsessed with an image of a man falling (jumping) to his death who he believed to be his father.
Message #6 flashback shows Oskar staring at the phone while his father asks "are you there?" over and over.
The line goes dead we see the tower crumble on the TV and Oskar realizes his father has died.
So he must have known his father died when the building came down, he did not jump and cannot be the falling man.
The continuity in editing was missedOskar is talking to the "Renter" in the rickety old bridge.
A plane is obviously flying behind Oskar and it disappears or is out of view behind a shack for a moment.
It does not reappear on the other side of the shack.
Thomas says that fossils found in Central Park provided clues to the existence of the 6th Borough, however, only metamorphic rocks are found in Manhattan and they do not carry any fossil traces.
While Oskar is running, there are several Ford Escapes passing by but, in 2001, this car was not around.
Such a beautiful film. It depicts a young lad on the autistic spectrum how life can be so challenging, heartwarming and burdensome for him and those around him, with the addition of the context of the awful aftermath of 9/11.
I do not know anyone with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, after watching this movie I was intrigued so I read up on it, and based on what I read Thomas Horn nailed it. Make no mistake about it even though there are 2 A listers, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock not to mention a cameo by John Goodman, young Tom Horn is the star of this movie.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS:Spent the 12th anniversary of 9/11 watching or rewatching movies whose theme centers around it.Let me first start by saying that this movie is a bit long.
This is an incredibly difficult story to tell and Stephen Daldry pulls it off magnificently. Eric Roth did a phenomenal job adapting the book by Jonathan Safran Foer (which I haven't read, but would now like to).
How on Earth did this get a Best Picture Oscar nomination? This movie is dull and pointless.
(There could be some spoilers! Attention!
Its as simple as it can get and still says a lot. We try to find adventure and mystery in movies and TV but when it comes to real life we want it simple.
I was blown away by the intensity of the misery the family portrayed in the flick had to face. 9/11 was one of the most tragic events in the history of mankind.
If you're hesitant to watch this movie, i advice just turn it on and keep watching.! This movie is so powerful and emotional, the young actor is fascinating really good actor with a bright future.
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