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I'm getting mad searching an explanation to the movie! Someone can help me? :(
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Ok, I could be completely wrong in this, but the way I remember it the husband killed his wife. He and his mistress devised a plan that would allow them to get rid of the body - by having her (the mistress) dress up as his wife and asking her (the mistress's) handyman to kidnap her (her as in the mistress pretending to be the wife). Ok. The handyman thought he was kidnapping Saori, the wife, because Saori's husband was having an affair and she wanted to test his loyalty. During the mock ransoming, the husband and the mistress put Saori (the real Saori) in the apartment, making the handyman think someone broke in and killed her. The man that called the handyman and told him to dispose of the body was the husband. So the handyman disposes of Saori in the woods, thinks he sees her (but he's really seeing hte mistress), blah blah blah. When he finally figures everything out, he confronts her and they come up with a plan to pin the murder on the husband (the real killer), get 30 million dollars from him, and live a life of peace together. ???? I'm confused about this part as well.
Overall, I thought this was a good movie, and I gave it a higher rating than any other Hideo Nakata movie (yes, including Ringu - gasp). Even though it was confusing, and even more so becuase it was edited to be out of order, it was well executed. The only problem, really, that I had, was that it was confusing. I don't need everything explained to me, but neither do I want to be confused after watching a movie. Who knows? I could be completely wrong in everything I inferred from the movie. That's my take, at least.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Yeah I think you're right but something still is not clear:
1. There are 2 women asking the handyman to be kidnapped, first (as the movie showed us) I think was the mistress and then the wife. But why???
2. You say that was the husband to make the telephone call to the handyman asking to get rid of the woman's body, but I think it was the mistress, in fact by the end of the movie there is a pursuit by the handyman trying to chase the mistress, when he caught her she tells that she called him saying to rid the wife's body.
Any clue?
1: I think that, at the beginning of the movie, that was actually the mistress, not the wife. The wife had been dead by that point. Its my opinion that the wife was killed before the whole thing started, and that that is the reason for the kidnapping in the first place - to mask the murder of Saori. That's my take on it: the mistress told the handyman that she was the wife, but she was just lying (this is later shown in the movie). Remember, the movie isn't shown sequencially, it's all jumbled up.
2. I think she was lying when she told him that. For one, it was a very masculine voice. True, that could be doctored by a digital device, but I didn't look at it that way. I simply thought it was the husband. I could be wrong, though.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
The mistress clearly states it was her on the phone disguising her voice telling him to get rid of the body, at least that's what she says in the subtitles. I still don't get the two separate flashbacks where she's asking him to stage the kidnapping and why they take place in different locations with her dressed in different outfits. And what was the story behind him asking her husband's sister for ransom money for her son?...that made no sense and was never really touched on in the rest of the movie. Did the handyman do that for the fun of it? There were a lot of lose ends in this film.
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I love this film. I was a little bit unclear why at the beginin the guy had his hand bandaged when i thought he didnt kill his wife til later, it woz a little unclear for me but i wanna say thanx for clearin it up. Its a brilliant film and the last shot of the woman jumpin off the cliff and turnin around and smilin always sticks in my mind.
shareThe wife was killed before the story begins. This is apparent as the husband's hand is bandaged right from the opening sequence. He is having dinner with the mistress at the time.
Also, she actually does say that it was her voice on the phone (not just in the subtitles). (When she called to the apartment to claim responsibility for killing the 'wife'.) It was electronically altered, that's why it sounds more like a male's voice.
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Also something I thought I would mention, after the couple have dinner, Satomi/Saori, is looking closely at her hair, this proves she is Satomi, cos she has changed her hair and that is why she pays so much attention to it. I read somewhere else that Saori asks the handyman to kidnap her before she is killed, what do people think of that, maybe she did do that, and then maybe it was a coincidence that Satomi picks the handyman later. Someone said that Satomi is psychic and so chose the handyman cos Saori already had.
share30 million yen is roughly 300 grand us dollars
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