4. The Curious Cases Of Miraculously Changing Nightwear
A plot hole, by definition, also extends to "an event that contradicts earlier events in the storyline," which means that the following bizarre occurrence could be considered as such - and said occurrence happens twice during Spectre, which makes it doubly troubling. Think back to the scene, then, in which Bond seduces Monica Bellucci's widow Lucia Sciarra. As Bond "interrogates" her for information during a particularly steamy sequence, he unzips her dress, exposing her bare back. The movie then implies that they... you know, have sex. But then the movie cuts to a bedroom, and Lucia sits on top of the best dressed in frilly lingerie that we clearly didn't see her wearing a moment earlier. If she wasn't wearing the lingerie under her clothes (and why would she have worn it to a funeral?), that means that she slept with Bond, then put the lingerie on? What? It gets worse. In a later scene featuring Lea Seydoux's Madeleine Swann, Bond tries his luck when the pair are drunk, only to be rejected. Seydoux falls asleep in her clothes, and then - for an unexplained reason - she wakes up in the middle of the night dressed in a seductive night gown. How, or why, did such an event occur? There's nothing in the film to suggest Madeleine woke up, got changed in front of Bond, and then went back to bed. Totally illogical and bewildering - and for what reason?
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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
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