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Dangling causes are generally unanswered questions for the audience. For instance, in the beginning of The Big Lebowski, when The Dude is attacked in his apartment by two henchmen, their presence in the film is a dangling cause. We must ask "who are these men, and what are they doing in The Dude's apartment?" Dangling causes are left to the audience's imagination, until they get answered later on in the film. Eventually, we find out that the men were hired by Jacky Treehorn, a fictional pornographer, who has the wrong Lebowski household.

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