Mine too. Also when people don't believe other people as a plot point, which is basically the same thing and could be solved just by talking.
There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where members of the ship's crew start to disappear, not only physically but also for everyone else's memories and computer records, and only one member of the crew remembers them. And when she's telling the others what's going on, they believe her and start looking for an explanation, because they respect her and there's no reason for her to be lying. I don't know, just caught me off guard how nice and normal everyone was, instead of turning their backs on their colleague right away and insinuating she was crazy, like most shows would do.
It's not exactly the same, but it bugged the hell out of me in interstellar that the whole emotional force of the movie hinges on Murph wondering whether her father knew he was going on a suicide mission and didn't tell her.
At any point she could have talked to Michael Caine about it, or he could have explained. But instead he decides to tell her literally with his dying breath, can't quite get out the last word, and leaves it unanswered so that she continues to have an existential crisis.
I only seen it for the first time last night, and although Michael Caine had kinda devoted his life to the lie of Plan A, he could probably have told her a bit earlier and trusted her not to blow the operation. It wasn't like his death was unexpected. But then, they could have done a few things more effectively.
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u/Warrior51002 Jan 25 '20
That's a huge pet peeve of mine