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What? *scratches head* Spoiler Warning...



Okay, so the policeman guarding her isn't real, she killed her ex-boyfriend, and the phone calls weren't real either?


When you're Bruce Willis, no one is above an ass-kicking.

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I am wondering all this too.

Can't touch this........

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The caller was her ID (like Freud explained).
There were no phone calls, there was no police officer, there was no serial killer.
The "police officer" was Chris. Frank was Chris. She was just imagining it all.. as a way to cope with her guilt, maybe? She killed Chris after catching him *beep* the hot neighbor in the pool. She stuffed him in the closet. And imagined it all. The Special Agent was her therapist or something of the kind (which is odd, she should have noticed something if she was a professional, right?).

There was only one crime, and that was Chris' death. She was the murderer. (Oh right maybe she killed the hot neighbor too. I dunno..)
Now, don't ask me why would she imagine a whole other bunch of killings...

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The twist was complete garbage.

You see, it's obvious the screenwriters knew how they were going to end the movie, because of the signs they give us about the twist - such as the double-headed pictures of the lead in her home, and some of the dialog exchange between her, the killer and the other supporting characters. So, we can't blame the writers and say 'they didn't know how to end the movie', because they did.

They just didn't know how to do everything else leading up to the twist.

It's as if to say that the writers thought they could get away with a crap script with no logic, no common sense and just making no damn sense, because it's "all in her head" and "it's not meant to make sense". They had their twist, so they thought they could get away with making no sense and having plot holes everywhere in their script.

The twist ending was horribly introduced to the very rushed and terrible final act of the film. It's a movie that leaves questions, but for all the wrong reasons. All we know is that she "somehow" gained another personality after killing her boyfriend, "for some reason" imagines a killer terrorizing her, "for some reason" imagines talking to imaginary people (only for them to get slaughtered), "for some reason" imagines people in her life as cops...goodness, I could go on...

The only things that make sense in this flick are the fact that she kills her boyfriend and his lover in a jealous rage and the fact that everything we see is not real. Everything else? *beep* knows.

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Yep. When somebody read the screenwriter's draft, it is beyond me why the feedback wouldn't have been something like, "Uh, it was all in her head? Really? Your story is fairly good until then...at least, think about a rewrite of the ending."

Funny thing. When I first saw this film in 2006, I rewrote the ending as a screenwriters' exercise. It totally rocked, if I may say so myself! :)

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