Disappointing lead single. A chorus that's more shouting than singing. Why do melodious bands seem to lose their knack for melody as they get older? Bob Pollard is one of the few exceptions.

I can buy that for his initial reaction, but not for his reaction after Dunaway just blurted out the name. He knew the card was wrong.

Why discuss with Dunaway? Go to someone important offstage and tell them you think the card was wrong because it said Emma Stone. My guess is he decided not to because he figured La La Land probably won anyway.

Right, it would then lead to the accounting firm having to come out with some evidence that La La Land did in fact win.

Not sure I can agree, for two reasons. 1) Beatty is used to being in front of millions of people. 2) Even after Dunaway read the movie and Beatty had time to think more about it, he still did nothing and went on as if nothing was wrong.

Tell that to her older brother when he tracks you down on the playground.

The kid who bullied Cindy Brady because of her lisp. It did not end well for him.

Give it a rest Buddy Hinton.

But he had no problem reading "Emma Stone",which was in large font.

Yeah, I still don't quite understand the two cards thing. It seems like it's because they don't know which side the presenters will be coming from, but that seems like something they should plan out and know. From what I can gather, the accountants were distracted and must not have actually been paying close attention…

I wouldn't expect Beatty to jump in and correct it, but I would expect him to mention to someone backstage that the card might have been wrong. Instead he completely forgot about it and acted like everything was dandy. Of course, he could have been thinking that if it was wrong, the accountants would have jumped in…

It looked like Beatty knew the card was wrong, but the dissonance with the thought "it can't be wrong" caused him to completely freeze up. Then when Dunaway read it, he just completely disregarded the "it's wrong" thought. I hate to say it, but I'm not sure that happens with a younger mind.

Fun fact: Her character is an introvert. That's how many of them look and act.

My comment was in response to a few people on here who said the narrative was straightforward (no twist) and they didn't feel deceived. I begged to differ.

Their narrative is to steal the safe, not open it. Likewise, Maeve's narrative, as part of her escape, is to take the train and arrive at the mainland. Now, it's possible that Bernard's narrative is to lie to Maeve about hers.

I think they can do everything in their narrative. Bernard was reading her narrative. In their dialog they might sometimes talk about goals they want to achieve.

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No, I'm pretty sure he says that she's able to take the train to the "mainland" before she cuts him off.

I think the filmmakers did want to trick you at first into thinking the daughter died up front. Right after the aliens land, when Louise is talking to her mother on the phone, there is dialog that implies the mother asks how she's doing and the response is like she is trying to cope. They wouldn't have that brief part…

When Louise is talking to her Mom by phone right after the aliens land isn't there dialogue that is meant to imply that her mother knows Louise is trying to cope with her daughter's death? Isn't that the filmmakers actively trying to deceive us that she already has a dead daughter?