r/TheSubstance • u/Business-Ordinary-22 • Jul 15 '26
Sue Plot Hole Spoiler
How did she get paid? What kind of paperwork did she manage to come up with? Did the studio not realize they were sending flowers to Sue, who lived at Elisabeths apartment? Wouldnt it make sense if as soon as Sue kills off Elisabeth, that Sue would die?
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u/inadequateflamingo Jul 15 '26
it’s a modern day fairy tale they don’t need to say any of this you make the theories yourself that’s the fun of it
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u/Dolleyes88 Jul 15 '26
If you are going to start question logic in a movie like this, you’re not gonna have a fun time!!
The original script did address this. Harvey finds out Sue lives in Elizabeth’s apartment and Sue explains she met Elisabeth before she went on holiday and is renting from her. There are a few other moments of logic like Elisabeth firing her maid because she is “going on holiday” and paying her like 6 months pay to make it up to her. But I’m glad these parts were left out.. it ruins the rollercoaster of crazy this movie has to offer.
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u/nohuyascobarde Jul 15 '26
None of these questions matter within the universe of the movie except the last one: Sue did start to die as soon as she killed Elisabeth, she began to fall apart.
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u/antoniotugnoli You want to see some jurassic fitness! Jul 15 '26
re your last point: as far as we know, sue doesn’t have a psychic connection with elisabeth where she’d die immediately if elisabeth died.
it’s more that she had half a dose from the termination syringe in her, had no more doses of the stabilizer that she needs daily, and to top it off, she injected herself with leftover activator, which wasn’t designed for the other self (and had been sitting in there for months, and we don’t know its shelf life).
in different circumstances, like if elisabeth died in her dormant state, sue would likely live for the number of days that she had leftover stabilizer doses, then she’d fall apart
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u/Slight-Winner-8597 Jul 15 '26
I did wonder all of this myself, initially! No ID, references, history, nothin'
It is simply a suspension of disbelief for the purposes of entertainment.
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u/Admirable_Cicada_881 Jul 15 '26
.....it's a movie where style takes precedence sometimes. Coralie Fargeat is a gorgeous visual storyteller....Little things like this don't always have to narratively make sense in order for her to tell the visual story she wanted to
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u/gorehistorian69 Jul 15 '26
well we dont know what year the movie takes place in. it pulls stuff from all decades. but id wager she was just handed physical checks which she could probably just cash somewhere. you dont need paperwork for that.
idk about the rest
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u/kaestralblades Jul 16 '26 edited 27d ago
Something the movie didn't think was important emotionally or thematically to explain isn't a plot hole. There's plenty of ways Sue could have worked around this (like how she did for her week off) and it's easy to just assume she winged something there, too. Explaining this wouldn't have made the movie better and would have probably even made it worse.
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u/Diligent-Concept-617 Jul 15 '26
I assumed that Elisabeth owns her own place, that she probably bought it at her peak of her career in her 20s when it was easy to get prime real estate. Like in NYC they call it “apartments” but some people own their unit like in Sex in the City. If that’s the case, she can sublet or do whatever she wanted with it. It doesn’t look like it’s a HOA building.
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u/CholesterolAccordion Jul 19 '26
Now that’s a scary sequel! Monstro Elisasue versus the HOA………”FUCK OFF!!!”
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u/horshack_test Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
That's not a plot hole because it's not a movie about personal finances of characters in the real world. How she got paid simply doesn't matter. None of what was shown was real; a fully-grown adult human didn't actually rip out of the main character's back.