History Headscratchers / SilentHill2

* That whole thing with Maria remembering Laura then just forgetting the girl. What was the point in all of that since not even ''James'' questions why she's not concerned for this poor girl running around Silent HIll?

*** [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Doesn't everybody?]]

*** Another important thing to keep in mind when examining James and his motivations is that if sexual frustration was his ''only'' issue with Mary's illness and he's nothing more than a horny, thoughtless cad, then nothing was really stopping him from fooling around on her and just dipping his wick with someone else while she was wasting away in the hospital. But ''that's not what he did''. He shut out the world around him, drank heavily, and slipped into a terrible depression. Mary was the love of his life and the person he chose to spend the rest of it with, and he was powerless to keep from losing her in a very protracted and painful way. Sexual fulfillment was merely one of the many things he was deprived of by Mary's illness and that drove him to do what he did, but Silent Hill latches onto that aspect of his inner feelings above all else to torture him because it's the one he's most ashamed of having.

*** It's what Silent Hill ''offers'' to him as his ideal woman, but whether she is or not depends on how you approach the story and which ending you get (i.e. in the "Maria" ending the town turns out to have guessed right, but not in the others).

*** Well, the first poster started it by bringing up jail sentences. The real problem with the logic there is that it assumes taking a human life is invariably the sin of murder, with no regard for context or extenuating circumstances of any kind, and this is very, ''very'' far from a universal viewpoint by the laws of God or Man. As has been said before, Silent Hill is what you bring with you. The supernatural forces behind the town don't place judgement on the morality of what you did and they have no interest in serving as your judge or your jury... just your executioner.

*** As a GeniusLoci, Silent Hill is a manipulative but rather passive entity. If, say, Eddie was feeling peckish (he'd just blown groceries not too long before, so he would) and thinking of hopping in his van to find an open pizza parlor, the town wouldn't go to the bother of collapsing roadways or summoning demons to steer Eddie where it wanted him to go when it'd be easier for him to just find a perfectly good pizza in the first place he looked. Eddie doesn't question this because '''A:''' Silent Hill isn't manifesting the same way for him as it is for James so he probably never saw anything nightmarish to compare this mystery pie against, and '''B:''' he's kind of a dim bulb, and unlikely to be thinking too hard about how the pizza got there; it's fresh and there's nobody else's name on it, so as far as he's concerned, it's lunch.

*** It is, particularly the part where Mary immediately counters with "If that were true, why do you look so sad?" Overall, James comes across as a good man who did a very bad thing, and the idea that a good person can do very bad things is a difficult and unpleasant concept for a lot of people to accept, so it's easier to just believe that anyone who does a very bad thing ''must'' truly be monstrous and evil to their core. Spend about 10 seconds on social media and you'll see just how widespread such a mentality really is.

** I have never liked this little WordOfGod detail and prefer to ignore it; it seems like such a needless complication to the story that doesn't really add anything and just begs all kinds of questions that didn't have to be asked when we could all assume Mary had already been given a proper burial. Without the "her corpse is in the backseat" bit, it makes a lot of sense that James would be so consumed with guilt because it would effectively make him a KarmaHoudini for what he did. Mary dying in hospice at the tail end of a terminal illness isn't the least bit suspicious and dollars to donuts it wouldn't have triggered a post-mortem examination that could easily uncover her real cause of death by asphyxiation. I'm sure somebody will come along to "Well ACKSHUALLY" that, but speaking from personal experience, no autopsy was performed when my cousin died of congestive heart failure a few years back specifically ''because'' of the open & shut nature of her death, even after my family had voiced their suspicions that COVID-19 complications may have been a factor.

*** It is, particularly the part where Mary immediately counters with "If that were true, why do you look so sad?" Overall, James comes across as a good man who did a very bad thing, and the idea that a good person can do very bad things is a difficult and unpleasant concept for a lot of people to accept, so it's easier to just believe that those who do really bad things are always actually monstrous and evil to the core. Spend about 10 seconds on social media and you'll see just how widespread such a mentality really is.

*** It is, particularly the part where Mary immediately counters with "If that were true, why do you look so sad?" Overall, James comes across as a good man who did a very bad thing, and the idea that a good person can do very bad things is a difficult concept for a lot of people to grasp, so it's easier to just believe that people who do really bad things are always actually monstrous and evil to the core. Spend about 10 seconds on social media and you'll see just how widespread such a mentality really is.

*** It is, particularly the part where Mary immediately counters with "If that were true, why do you look so sad?" Overall, James comes across as a good man who did a very bad thing, and the idea that a good person can do very bad things is a very hard concept for a lot of people to grasp, so it's easier to just believe that people who do really bad things are always actually monstrous and evil to the core. Spend about 10 seconds on social media and you'll see just how widespread such a mentality really is.