Unknown

Unknown (2011)

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Corrected entry: When Liam Neeson's character is in the crash into the river, he bangs his head on the glass, and the scar is seen to the viewer to be on the right hand side of his head, but during the car chase scene, the scar can be seen changing sides from left to right really frequently.

Correction: If you watch the scene where he is retrieving his briefcase there are actually scars on both sides of his forehead.

Corrected entry: When Doctor and Mrs Harris are being checked by customs, they get a stamp in their passport that reads 11 November 2011. But when Doctor Harris wakes up at the hospital after the crash, the doctor who treated him tells him it's Thursday November 24th and he's been in a coma for 4 days.

Correction: Look carefully. The date stamped in the passport says "20 Nov. 2011.

Corrected entry: When Dr. Harris is kidnapped and put in the black van by Cole, thug Gina steals a taxi to follow. When Gina drives off, the liftback door of the taxi is open awaiting luggage, but next shot it is closed.

Correction: It closed when she started the car. Right after the car starts it shows it automatically closing as the taxi driver tries run after it. Maybe it was automatic or maybe the momentum closed it, but in any case it's not a mistake as we see the trunk closing.

Corrected entry: When Martin Harris is attempting to prove who he is in the security office of the hotel, he asks the security to call a colleague. When he gives the number he says, "001.". International calls start with 011, not 001. (00:20:35)

Correction: Actually, you dial 011 to dial out of the US to another country, but you dial 001 when dialing from another country to the US, so the movie is correct.

Corrected entry: When Liam Neeson opens the multiple passports from his briefcase at the airport, the forenames and surnames of the identities are all the wrong way around.

ellie1981

Correction: The passports are fakes. This is a character mistake on the part of whoever made them.

Plot hole: After January Jones has just told Liam Neeson she doesn't recognise him. Neeson is trying to persuade Herr Strauss and two cops that he really is Dr Martin Harris of Langmore University, and suggests they look for a photo of him online. However, the cop using the computer says that it could take him ages to find a photo of Dr Martin Harris, as "there are more than 40 000 in the USA." This is very true, but as Neeson has already told him not only his name but also his place of work (Langmore university) in reality the cop would have found the photo far more quickly.

swordfish

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Suggested correction: The average cop wouldn't be that quick to realise that he could filter the results. Instead of being a plot hole, this is simply a very human initial response to an initial search result.

ReRyRo

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Ernst Jürgen: We Germans are experts at forgetting. We forgot we were Nazis. Now we have forgotten 40 years of Communism - all gone.

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Trivia: Throughout the movie if you look in the background at the various graffiti tags, one in particular stands out. Look for the tag OZ. In almost every scene that has graffiti on the walls you 'll see it somewhere in the background, sometimes more than once. Although it is common for graffiti artists to leave multiple marks in multiple areas, Berlin is a big city and it can be spotted too often for it to be coincidence.

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Question: What (if any) is the significance of the "OZ" graffiti that pops up throughout the film? It became quite distracting as I thought it would pay off at the end of the film.

Answer: The 'OZ' sprayer is a very disturbed man who claims to be an artist but the courts think otherwise. You can found his OZ (which he claims to be read OLI!) everywhere in Berlin and Hamburg. It has absolutely nothing to do with the movie but you can't film a wide open scene in Berlin without taping it.

Answer: Mise en scene. OZ / OLI is firstly a name. Asking what or rather who OZ / OLI is, is the point. One of the main questions of the film is what constitutes a person's identity.

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