The real villain of the film (SPOILERS)

In case you somehow missed it it is Zonfeld. The film is a textbook case of possibly the first man in history wielding "pure" ESP power, and by pure I mean morally neutral, neither evil nor good. Think of someone gifted with the Force but totally untrained, not only before having decided whether to join the dark or the light side, but yet ignoring there are any sides at all. The dark side is destructive, much easier and direct than the light one, which is creative, more subtle, and with it you can help instead of harming people (we need not go too far, to the point of say using his power to.. grow things LOTR style, just think of using his telekinesis for saving a train about to be derailed instead of derailing it himself. Imagine how this would have made him feel).

I have not yet read the book but at least in the movie Zonfeld is the equivalent of Star Wars' Palpatine , while Morlar is obviously Anakin, a totally untrained one too. Just like in the Star Wars films Morlar was corrupted by Zonfeld; not by her power by her stubborn, excessive skepticism and as a result, since she would stubbornly fail to believe him even when he crashed that plane, her total inability to help him by guiding him away from the easy path of destruction and towards a more creative path.

Morlar asked Zonfeld, at least a couple of times, "Why do I only destroy (aka am I unable to create)?" but she kept on persisting on her skepticism until the very end. He asked her repeatedly, not knowing to ask anyone else, "What am I? Why/how do I do these things?", yet Zonfeld kept on letting him down. Eventually he decided to do something very drastic while she was with him so that she believed him for good. He crashed the plane while she was standing behind him; she was initially shocked, yet right after she returned home she once again pulled the skepticism wool over her eyes (all those years brainwashed by rigid, conventional wisdom and science are apparently hard to be put aside for more than a few minutes at a time) and resorted to her "No, no, no.. This did not happen, that is impossible.. It was just another coincidence!" typical mantra.

Eventually instead of helping him she tried to kill him, kill her patient! She corrupted the quite possibly first ever man with ESP powers in history, a man holding the key to the next stage of human evolution, making him believe he was meant to .. destroy the world. Deciding even to take her own life instead of trying to understand him and help him, which is all that he asked. Her very narrow, wide shut close-mindedness literally drove him insane in the end, thinking he was something like Shiva the destroyer (instead of Shiva or Brahma). He was naive to trust her but he did not know any better. His choices were science or church and, having been burned by the church while having no evidence to believe in any kind of god, he chose science. Unfortunately he chose the wrong scientist.

Fanboy : a person who does not think while watching.