Continuity mistake: When Walter is imagining himself killing his wife, the bed sheets change from silver to red momentarily after he wakes up.
The Number 23 (2007)
1 continuity mistake
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Jim Carrey, Danny Huston, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman
Factual error: Right after Walter has the nightmare about killing his wife, he wakes up and turns around to see the alarm clock show 11:12. The clock makes a flipping sound when it switches to the next minute, just like those alarm clocks from the 1980s that have those little numbered plastic cards inside. However, it's a digital alarm clock and they do not make such sounds.
Walter Sparrow: Of course time is just a counting system... numbers with meanings attached to them.
Trivia: In an interview, Jim Carrey admitted to being obsessed with the number twenty-three.
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Answer: A guess: it matched the colour of the walls that she had chosen (red). It's also shown sitting on the shelf, facing outwards, making it more obvious.