who is L
can anybody tell me who the 'L' character is in this movie. he mentions him several times in his journal but i never got who he was.
thanks for the help
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I myself don't know, I think it's not directly mentioned there. Maybe one trace can be the man Morlar talks to "for several hours" on the bench after leaving his publisher. Otherwise I think it's a) left to our imagination, b)maybe it's described in the novel and slipped to the movie to show that Morlar had some friends after all.
shareYeah its that guy on the bench. He is identified by name in the novel, which I read years ago - I don't recall his name but it began with an "L". I don't think the people investigating Morlar realise that that is who he means.
shareLoveless? The guy who was in court that Morlar supported. He was the tramp he talked to for hours outside his publishers office who got hit by a bus later...at least thats what i guessed.
shareLoveless is not "L" Loveless is DEAD along with "ZED". L is indeed the guy on the bench and he remains L, all the book will say is that Loveless hanged himself before the meeting on the bench,i will check my copy of the book for a name and get back to you. ps Russell Crowe nice idea
shareThe book may make that clear - I don't know - but the film doesn't. All we know is that at some point in the past, as related by the publisher (Derek Jacobi), Morlar met "L" on a park bench, and at some other point - before or after - Loveless died.
I assumed that "L" was Loveless, because there's no one else with that initial in the film. I read the film as implying that Morlar associated with Loveless after the latter left jail, but then Morlar's power caused Loveless to die, without Morlar consiously willing it. Indeed, Morlar doesn't know that L is dead - he just notes that L didn't turn up for a scheduled meeting - "No sign of L".
I think it's a brilliant film, but it's full of unresolved plots like that. One of them is the state conspiracy (the "interested parties" that Brunel's British boss talks about) that prevents Morlars books being reviewed, and presumably watches him closely. Did the government know about Morlar's power?
That "man" is Zonfeld. We are only ever told her surname, so L must clearly be her first name, just like the actress's (Lee). She is the only one that makes sense. We had been told that she also meets him out of the office, and she is the only one Morlar had any interest about, so I do not see any room for an other one.
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In the book L is a character called Lorimar who is a petty criminal and an informer for the establishment.
Morlar defended him years before the action in the film.
He is clearly a very different character from both Zonfeld and Loveless.