I know the guy who wrote this based it on something that actually happened to him but how accurate is it though? Like did she really try to accuse him of rape and try to kill his girlfriend?
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I'm confident that "Nick" is a total Mary-Sue character in this film.
There is no universe in which someone with the I.Q. of "Adrien", would behave in the way she did in the final scenes of this film.
She's pretty much an evil genius the whole way through...but when she returns to the house at the end, she doesn't destroy her diary or the creepy shrine (the two things that could confirm she's a crazy stalker and fabricating the sexual assault)...but instead makes a bigger, creepier shrine...attacks her best friend...attacks her father (who still believes she's the victim at this point)...and pretty much guarantees herself a long stay in the loony bin.
I don't care how mentally or emotionally unstable she may have been. This behavior does not follow from anything that was witnessed before. If she supposedly killed a chemistry tutor with calculated precision and plausible deniability, why would she spaz out and be so sloppy now? It makes absolutely no sense.
This is wish fulfillment on the part of the writer, plain and simple.
I think there are probably genuine aspects of his experiences that were incorporated (although likely dramatized) within this film...but the actual story arch is an exercise in re-writing history so that the Mary-Sue version of himself (depicted as "Nick"), comes out victorious...and Darian/"Adrien" is exposed for being a nutter.
I'm sure this film is based on true events, but the phrases "Mary Sue-Nick" and "wish fulfillment" are what separates this narrative from whatever underlying reality it was based on.