Remarkable film.


At first I was only watching the movie because it looked similar to a great movie I recently saw called "Alone with Her" starring Colin Hanks. But after viewing this entire movie I was stunned at what I had just seen. The ending especially was what really drove it home. It made me feel so conflicted. I wanted to know if he was really crazy or not, though I know it's meant to be interpreted by the viewer; it left me in a paradox for days. Wishing the best for Francis yet fearing the worst.

If your looking for a movie that will leave you thinking and keep you entertained then I highly suggest "Buddy Boy".

I still wonder what was in the cage.

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This movie is really underrated...

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I agree pretty cool film.

I think that at the end he has a moment of clarity when he says it does not matter that God hates him, because she loves him. Then the music builds a bit as he looks into the heating grate. I think it really is just that, a heating grate in the floor under the carpet, but his mind slips back into delusional paranoia mode at that moment. Hopefully he got some help, but we will never really know.

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by far the most disturbingly brilliant movie i have ever seen.

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Underrated for sure. It gets you into the mind of a paraniod schizophrenic.

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I know, from personal experience, that mentally ill people live in a world of their own.
NOTHING was in the floor vent, except air.
What everybody misses about this film, is that it is really about only one person who is mentally ill, and how he perceives his environment. If you are intelligent enough to drop all the nonsense about religion, the devil, evil, flesh eaters, cross dressing older brothers who pretend to be stepmothers..... the main character is real, and all the other characters are only a product of his mental condition. The writer, director, and actor have done a splendid job of portraying for you what it would be like to be mentally ill.... delusional, paranoid and schizophrenic.
But, while it is a fictional work, I think it could be true that some people actually have a life so screwed up. I think I see them in my neighborhood on a daily basis.


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The film started out in a good and promising way, however it dragged on too much and lost its intrigue. Looks too much like a poor copy of Norman Bates' story, and is therefore not very original. The acting from Aidan Gillen was great, but the rest of the cast was awful.

🐺 Boycott movies that involve real animal violence (& their directors) 🐾

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