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Cinemagoers have complained of an apparent “plot hole” in Trap, the latest film from director M Night Shyamalan.
The movie, released in UK cinemas last week, follows a serial killer known as “The Butcher” (Josh Hartnett), who is ensnared in a police sting operation while taking his daughter to an arena concert of a Taylor Swift-esque pop star.
Shyamalan’s own daughter, musician Saleka Shyamalan, portrays the pop idol in the film, known as Lady Raven.
Like much of Shyamalan’s ouevre, Trap has garnered mixed responses from audiences and critics. Positive reviews have praised the film’s originality, humour and premise, while criticisms have focused primarily on the dialogue and plot contrivances.
On social media, many viewers have claimed to have noticed “holes” in the logic of the film, with one particularly common complaint emerging about the nature of the Lady Raven concert.
Some spoilers for Trap follow... you have been warned!
In the film, the concert is seen to be taking place during the day, with the lighting only transitioning to night in the final scenes, long after the Lady Raven gig is over.
However, as many viewers have pointed out, arena gigs are never staged in the middle of the afternoon.
“I think the wildest thing about Trap is we’re supposed to believe that lady’s concert started at like 2 in the afternoon??” one baffled viewer wrote on X/Twitter.
“No popstar in the world would have an arena show in the afternoon,” another noted on Reddit.
Others pointed out the apparent lack of security given to Lady Raven in the aftermath of her show, with one person describing the bodyguard situation as another “plot hole” in Shyamalan’s latest film.
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Elsewhere, Hartnett recently revealed that he had taken inspiration from “psychopaths” in show business for his performance.
“There are a lot of CEOs, politicians, people in our business… a lot of people who are at the top,” Hartnett told Entertainment Weekly.
“They don’t mind stepping over people or doing horrible things to get where they’re going, and not having any empathy is a pretty big sign of being a psychopath.
“Whether or not you’re murdering people, I’ve met people like this, you know what I mean?”
Trap is out in cinemas now.
