You know, I can't help wondering... although I am more than willing to suspend my disbelief concerning reincarnation, Frankie's accent change, and Mike's apparently superhuman resistance to blood loss...
...how do they explain to the police what happened in Amanda's apartment???
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"...how do they explain to the police what happened in Amanda's apartment"
Here's my theory. since Mike is a former cop he knows what the cops and DA will believe. he then gets the story straight with Amamda and Pete before they call the cops. The story - Frankie believed in the reincarnation stuff and he had to kill Amanda to keep his secret safe; then their actions are self-defense. If the tthree of them give an credence to the reincarnation story then they look guilty of something.
Yeah, but how do they explain Mike's bullet wound? Amanda's prints are all over the gun.
I'm just saying that by the time the three of them get their story straight (never mind that they have to explain a lot of it to the Wayne Knight character), Mike will have bled to death. :-)
The bleeding I suspended disbelief on. I forgot about Amanda's prints on the gun. Guess they have some explaining to do.
I opften see movie and wonder/theorizre about what happened in the next hour or so.
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Why don't we just have Frankie reincarnated as someone else who then comes after Mike and Amanda 15 years later?
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People, especially younger people, will assimilate accents of the country they are living in. Frankie's mother said they moved to England after his speech problem took a turn for the worse and he improved thanks to the help of a hypnotist who also taught Frankie about reincarnation.
As for the gunshot wound, okay I agree that it involves the suspension of disbelief etc. but if you want to find something that could possible support that bit of the story; Mike was shot by a very small caliber pistol ie. a .25 caliber which would make a small wound, roughly smaller than a #2 pencil and it could have been with an antique bullet that lost a lot of its potency. So, he may not have been injured all that badly and he could have been more in a state of catatonic/ psychological shock by being shot by Grace than actually injured. I dunno, maybe it can be explained away.
I think the ending was *beep* The movie was very interesting, with all that in the prior life, and then they screw it all up with such a classic thriller ending, which has been made thousands of times. I was disappointed. But it was interesting. It had a lot of potential, but the ending screwed it all up.
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I don't think it would be too hard to tell the police what happened. Mike and Grace confess that Madson was treating Grace for her amnesia, but perhaps lie and say that Madson was manipulating Grace by actually putting the ideas about Roman and Margaret in Grace's mind through hypnotic suggestion, and say that they didn't really believe about this reincarnation 'nonsense'. Don't forget, there is a lot of evidence against Madson by now - his mother's dead body, the old magazine (with photos of Roman and Margaret who's resemblance to Mike and Grace could be used to explain Madson's apparent 'fixation' on them), why he has the scissors. All Mike and Grace would have to do is tell the police something like "We told Madson we didn't want to continue the sessions. He became angry and threw us out. That night he broke into Grace's apartment and tried to kill us (after killing his mother first)."
As for why Mike was shot, I'd just tell the police something like, "She mistook me for a prowler when I tried to climb through the window. I came round to give her a present (the anklet) and wanted to surprise her, see. It was a happy coincidence that I was here as a moment later, Madson arrived."
"He murders his wife every night. Other than that, I think he's pretty harmless."
Maybe Mike just said he realized Frankie killed Margaret and when Frankie realized he had been found out, he shot Mike, then tried to kill Amanda. Frankie was killed in self-defense and Wayne Knight was a witness to it all.
shareExactly. (I know this is old, but I just re-watched this movie tonight--we showed it to our kids for the first time.)
I realized watching tonight that when I saw it originally in theaters, I either didn't think about what they would tell the police or I've forgotten what I thought, but it would be easy for Mike, Amanda, and Wayne Knight (Pete?) to come up with a story. While they were having Frankie hypnotize Amanda to see if she'd remember who she was, they realized/found the scissors that proved (and Frankie's mother told Mike) that Frankie had killed Margaret Strauss. Frankie then killed his mother and came after them to hide his crime.
They wouldn't have to mention the reincarnation stuff at all.
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