Mark Ruffalo's character gets her a drink of water, then she takes a rigourous sip of *nothing at all*, then in the next cut slams an empty water cup on the table.

Then a few cuts later the cup is half full on the table.

What in the fuck was that?

I saw it twice, I'm not mistaken. Maybe this means that after a day and a half without meds he was already tripping balls, hallucinating, and as such maybe she didn't write "run" in his notebook after all?

That would help to explain one of the harder to explain bits of the film.

Anyhow, dope film, holds up on a second viewing. I'd give it an A-. Jackie (motha fuckin') Earle Haley and the Warden are excellent, Mark Ruffalo was unrecognizable. Good performances all around actually.

I was reading some people in this thread saying that some of the shots were Kubrick-esque and my mental reaction was "have these people even seen a Kubrick film?", but on second viewing I can see it for sure, especially the helicopter shot of the jeep taking Leo and Ruffalo to the Asylum for the first time.