And Jane finally goes off the deep end.

after she was injured.

to become paraplegic?

that was potentially paralyzing, but she still would have been able to crawl out of the car to stage the accident. It would have been possible for the injury to worsen after that, or even because of it, and cause paraplegia.

Many times Hollywood takes license to make things entertaining. Most things in movies don’t add up but we take it for what it’s worth. I think Billy Wilder was one of the few director/ writers who was a stickler for realism in his movies.

What movies have you watched? Even in absurd comedies such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail or What's Up, Doc?, there's always a reason, a set-up, for everything, unless the writers and/or director have left a hole in the plot.

That's what I think this is. If not, I missed something. Perhaps it was too subtle or perhaps I just blinked. In any case, I want to know what it was, not to be dismissed with a simplistic "That's just how movies are."

Hubby and I are movie nuts, we probably have over a thousand movies. He likes movies like Double Indemnity and action movies like Jack Reacher. I like 30’s and 40’s dark house like the Thin Man and Charlie Chan, very broad comedies , Kaiju, parodies and Marvel before they started stinking up the place. It’s only a flesh wound. Yes Eunice.

Blanche caused her own accident. She tried to run Jane over for drunkenly mocking her at a party. Blanche dragged herself out to the front of the car to stage the accident and blame Jane. Maybe it's good to remember that 1962 was before "Unsafe at Any Speed," by Ralph Nader, which opened the eyes of the public about automobile safety. It was definitely possible to get a spinal injury behind wheel.