This is the 1st listed 'goof' from the Cake IMDB page:
"Claire's pain appears to be in her legs - it was said she had pins in her legs - and during the swimming sequence, they show a long scar that runs from above to below her knee. If it were this injury, she would not be able to squat down to slip into the pool and if it were as bad as indicated, she would have a harder time walking. Additionally, it wouldn't require her to lay down in the car during her travels."
Whoever wrote this has a poor understanding of physiology and clearly didn't pay much attention to to the film's plot. Their criticism does a disservice to Aniston's excellent portrayal of someone with chronic pain.
1) Claire presents as someone w/pain in both her back and her legs. She walks w/a pretty classic and slow chronic pain shuffle. Every time she gets up-from her bed, the car seat, a barstool-she does so gingerly, flinching. Like a much older person w/a stiff, sore back and legs. In the sex scene, she can't bear weight.
2) They don't show her squatting @ the therapy pool. She is sitting on the pool's edge, legs dangling in, and pushes herself into the water-accomplished w/a forward push of her buttocks. If the pool otherwise had metal ladders, going in via the side would be easier on the knees and back than narrow pool stairs.
3) The fact that Claire doesn't lay down in the car for pain reasons is specifically addressed when they cross back over the border from Tijuana.
My assumption was, because of her horrible/bloody memories of the accident, Claire couldn't bear to look through a car windshield.
Like Claire, I was once thrown out of a chronic pain support group. Except I was thrown out for the opposite reason. Lol. It was a pretty furious group...Claire would have fit right in.
"Claire's pain appears to be in her legs - it was said she had pins in her legs - and during the swimming sequence, they show a long scar that runs from above to below her knee. If it were this injury, she would not be able to squat down to slip into the pool and if it were as bad as indicated, she would have a harder time walking. Additionally, it wouldn't require her to lay down in the car during her travels."
Whoever wrote this has a poor understanding of physiology and clearly didn't pay much attention to to the film's plot. Their criticism does a disservice to Aniston's excellent portrayal of someone with chronic pain.
1) Claire presents as someone w/pain in both her back and her legs. She walks w/a pretty classic and slow chronic pain shuffle. Every time she gets up-from her bed, the car seat, a barstool-she does so gingerly, flinching. Like a much older person w/a stiff, sore back and legs. In the sex scene, she can't bear weight.
2) They don't show her squatting @ the therapy pool. She is sitting on the pool's edge, legs dangling in, and pushes herself into the water-accomplished w/a forward push of her buttocks. If the pool otherwise had metal ladders, going in via the side would be easier on the knees and back than narrow pool stairs.
3) The fact that Claire doesn't lay down in the car for pain reasons is specifically addressed when they cross back over the border from Tijuana.
My assumption was, because of her horrible/bloody memories of the accident, Claire couldn't bear to look through a car windshield.
Like Claire, I was once thrown out of a chronic pain support group. Except I was thrown out for the opposite reason. Lol. It was a pretty furious group...Claire would have fit right in.