History Headscratchers / DeathBecomesHer

** A bit WMG, but maybe all of Lisle's clients get a finder's fee for every new prospective client they send to her. After all, the guy at the beauty clinic (strongly implied to be immortal too from his unusual eye twitch) only sends Madeline to Lisle the moment he hears that money is no issue to her. Also, not all immortals are famous people. Some of them are more than capable of just adopting a new identity every so often and continue earning money as usual. The rule against appearing in public probably only applies to celebrities. As for the famous ones, they can probably live off the interests from their bank accounts since even a $100 million dollar can earn them a comfortable $400,000 a month.

*** This interpretation is even more likely given that Lisle somehow doesn't strike me as a type that gives major discounts.

** A bit WMG, but maybe all of Lisle's clients get a finder's fee for every new prospective client they send to her. After all, the guy at the beauty clinic (strongly implied to be immortal too from his unusual eye twitch) only sends Madeline to Lisle the moment he hears that money is no issue to her. Also, not all immortals are famous people. Some of them are more than capable of just adopting a new identity every so often and continue earning money as usual. The rule against appearing in public probably only applies to celebrities. As for the rest, they can probably live off the interests from their bank accounts.

** A bit WMG, but maybe all of Lisle's clients get a finder's fee for every new prospective client they send to her. After all, the guy at the beauty clinic (strongly implied to be immortal too from his unusual eye twitch) only sends Madeline to Lisle the moment he hears that money is no issue to her. Also, not all immortals are famous people. Some of them are more than capable of just adopting a new identity every so often and continue earning money as usual. The rule against appearing in public probably only applies to celebrities.

** A bit WMG, but maybe all of Lisle's clients get a finder's fee for every new prospective client they send to her. After all, the guy at the beauty clinic only sends Madeline to Lisle the moment he hears that money is no issue to her.

** Given that the potion is shown to heal open cuts, the immortals are probably capable of healing minor injuries.

** It's strongly implied that the immortals' bodies don't start decaying until they've suffered a fatal injury. After all, Helen took the potion long before Mad and didn't suffer from skin-peeling until after the shotgun blast.

** It's strongly implied that the immortals' bodies don't start decaying until they've suffered a normally-fatal injury. After all, Helen takes the potion long before Mad and doesn't suffer from skin-peeling until after the shotgun blast.

* How do immortals will make a living (lol) later on? Sure, some of them "died" with a generous bank account and some can live from royalties, but that has to run out sometime and they can't release any new works and are forbidden to appear in public.

* At the end of the film Madeline and Helen are literally broken into pieces but each of their body parts are still very much alive. Does this mean that if they were set on fire that every individual one of their ashes would still be alive?

** Who said there were no injuries whatsoever? The normal healing factor is not removed by the potion and is in fact probably enhanced. She didn't suffer any crippling or life-threatening injuries, yes, but that's not so surprising in the course of 71 years at the secluded mansion.

* How did Lisle manage to survive 71 years without incurring any injuries whatsoever?

** There's no real way of answering this question, as it doesn't come up within the limits of the film and is ultimately subject to guesswork; it's not really a plothole, it's just something the movie doesn't really have the space to address. That said, as the above post suggests it's likely the immortality portion probably works to keep the body at peak physical perfection up to a point. No cancerous cells develop and the immune system is at maximum efficiency and fights off most illnesses that the body is capable of fighting off (although it probably wouldn't hurt to keep up with your vaccinations). Something like, say, AIDS may pose more of a problem, but since it's magic if probably falls under "the immune system is sufficiently boosted to fight it off"; immortality would be a lot less fun if you couldn't have wild consequence-free sex whenever you wanted, after all. And even if it isn't, as long as there's some form of treatment you probably wouldn't have to worry too much. As for something like the common cold, well, you might come down with the sniffles every so often but as it's not usually lethal you probably won't have to worry too much about it.

** ''Was'' Helen ever poor, however? She had presumably affluent parents who used to throw those snotty parties. She was a somewhat successful writer before the fall. The only reason we think she was poor prior to taking the potion is because she was shown to reside in a shithole apartment and didn't pay the rent. But given what we see her doing, it's also possible that she was spending her entire life constantly watching Madeline killed or otherwise obsessing on Madeline and ''just didn't bother to pay''. And she could deliberately move to some shithole place so that no one of her friends or relatives would distract her from her all-consuming hatred of Madeline. For all we know, she could have had a decent amount on her bank deposit and just lived off it (especially since she seems to have had virtually no expenses apart from the food).

** ''Was'' Helen ever poor, however? She had presumably affluent parents who used to throw those parties. She was a somewhat successful writer before the fall. The only reason we think she was poor prior to taking the potion is because she was shown to reside in a shithole apartment and didn't pay the rent. But given what we see her doing, it's also possible that she was spending her entire life constantly watching Madeline killed or otherwise obsessing on Madeline and ''just didn't bother to pay''. And she could deliberately move to some shithole place so that no one of her friends or relatives would distract her from her all-consuming hatred of Madeline. For all we know, she could have had a decent amount on her bank deposit and just lived off it (especially since she seems to have had virtually no expenses apart from the food).

** ''Was'' Helen ever poor, however? She had presumably affluent parents who used to throw the parties. She was a somewhat successful writer before the fall. The only reason we think she was poor prior to taking the potion is because she was shown to reside in a shithole apartment and didn't pay the rent. But given what we see her doing, it's also possible that she was spending her entire life constantly watching Madeline killed or otherwise obsessing on Madeline and ''just didn't bother to pay''. And she could deliberately move to some shithole place so that no one of her friends or relatives would distract her from her all-consuming hatred of Madeline. For all we know, she could have had a decent amount on her bank deposit and just lived off it (especially since she seems to have had virtually no expenses apart from the food).