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- Subject: Re: Q on A Few Good Men: Poison???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.161004.5726@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:10:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.083855.372@news.uwyo.edu>
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- >In article <1992Dec23.083855.372@news.uwyo.edu> rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu
- (Rich Travsky) writes:
-
- >Something that really bothered me about this film was the "poison"
- >plot device. Were these two marines toxicologists or something?
- >Where did they find this poison, or barring finding it, how did they
- >get it transported to the base? How did they know what minimum dosage
- >would be effective, etc.?
- >
- >Not that this movie didn't have its share of problems, but this
- >"poison" thing was not addressed fully at the trial.
-
- Um, I think you missed a bog part of the court room scenes. Cruise
- basically takes the doctor apart with the theory that the marine
- actually had a bad heart condition, and the lack of oxygen caused it to
- kick in, and that is what killed him. There was no poison.
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