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The farmer takes the bait in a scam that keeps moviegoers guessing We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A few years ago, British comedian James Veitch brought a show to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival about the year he had spent replying to online scammers, the kind who profess to be desperate to warehouse a few million dollars in your bank account or propose an unexpected marriage. Some of them entered into prolonged and erratically punctuated correspondence; clearly, they thought there was a good chance he would cough up eventually. It just shows that some people do. But who could possibly fall for the old Nigerian gold scam? And who puts that scam out there, anyway? ....
Everyone in this film is in dire need of love â and it makes them do crazy things Save Normal text size (M) 116 minutes Thereâs an old law of screenwriting that says you can only have one coincidence per movie, otherwise the audience wonât trust you. What that means, in effect, is that a writer canât monkey with causality. If fate, chance or the hand of God is running things, the outcome is âpredestinedâ. The Greeks and Shakespeare loved that, but modern drama requires more uncertainty. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (left) and Nadia Tereszkiewicz in Only the Animals. In fact, every writer knows that monkeying with causality is part of what they do, in order to manipulate uncertainty. Dominik Moll and co-writer Gilles Marchand certainly know it; they take coincidence to an extreme here, taunting us with their manipulations. The question is why? ....