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Meh (spoilers)

posted 18 years ago by PunchB
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Thought it was pretty good until the end. (Just stating up front that to me it's pretty obvious that he had only killed his mother and Laura, and that his mother told the truth to Laura about Ramon having sex with male students.)

So, we have a homosexual (why?) who is not a serial killer, but who kills his mother, and then kills his ex-wife in a premeditated and cold-blooded fashion, after mentally torturing her, and then rapes the body, so he's also a necropholiac. And by the way, there's no explination as to how he got to be that way.

In the beginning I thought we would get hints to how this man developed into a psychotic serial killer. Then I thought he wasn't a killer and only wanted revenge for what his wife had done to him - I even thought that maybe the wife would turn out to be the bad person (being the biggest mental torturer so to speak) - that would actually have been interesting.

In the end the story and characters merely served the purpose of getting as many twists in as possible. Believability? Who needs it.

[–] rivethead808 17 years ago

I really think you missed the point

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[–] frumwannabe 17 years ago

** SPOILERS **

There is an explanation as to how he got that way: he was mentally/physically abused by his mother during childhood, becoming a psychopath. Although he is more organized than most psychopaths. Perhaps it is only in fiction that someone can behave this way.

I found few clues to foreshadow the ending. When the police search the basement room the floor is painted gray when it was previously dark red. Also when Ramon makes a popping noise with his finger in his mouth to indicate taking Laura's eye out, that fits the description of torture. It's designed to intimidate and it mocks her helplessness. Only a sadist could do that.

This movie doesn't go into an exploration of how serial killers are made. It develops the theme of truth versus fabrication. The photographic and video evidence can be proven to be fake. The audio tape on the answering machine is a fake as well, although the police fail to make that logical inference. As in the word chain game, one thing leads to another revealing the hidden truth.