I just watched this movie on On Demand a little bit ago. The ending confused me, when they said they were going to charge her for murder. Did she kill her boyfriend? Was Joe in her head all along, and the police guy really wasn't there either?
shareI think so. I actually had to watch it again because of the ending. When it showed the picture of her and her boyfriend the boyfriend was Frank.
shareI am having to sit here and watch it again to try and get it....
shareJoe was like her split personality. In the film, it talks about the ID, the theorized part of our brains that houses all of our primal urges. "Joe" was like the embodiment of Monica Keena's ID. She created that alternate reality to cope with the fact that she killed her boyfriend and his lover out of rage. Since she still really loved her boyfriend, in her alternate reality, he took the form of the police officer, Frank, who was a good person and was trying to help her.
At least that's how I understood it. Maybe it will help some of you understand, maybe it won't.
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ok, so what u saying that she did her bf and bf's lover, and all the frank part was all in her mind? then who is joe? at the end where joe said this is all about u it was never about me, what is that mean? can u explain to me please cuz no matter how many time i watch it its the same for me, confuse,u said that < he took the form of the police officer, Frank, who was a good person and was trying to help her.>> what happen to frank? and detective margarent ever met frank?
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In the real world, she killed her boyfriend Chris. The other murders (the ones that she interrupted and heard over the phone) never happened. She created a split personality to deal with the fact that she had killed Chris- this was "Joe". Remember that the murders started with where Chris was headed, and ended in her apartment building. I believe this was because she was getting closer to figuring out just how close the murderer was to her (ie it was her). When she splits into this delusional state, Chris becomes Frank. The boyfriend that cheated on her and broke her heart becomes this really sweet, caring guy. Notice he kept telling her "I'll never leave you again." She was getting from Frank what she never got from Chris. Also in the real world, she was seeing a psychiatrist. In her delusion, this became the FBI agent. Just like her doctor would have done, she caused the character to question her boyfriend figure's motives. The only people who were REAL were the main girl, her boyfriend Chris, the neighbor he cheats on her with, her psychiatrist, the two cops at the very end, and possibly the maintenance guy at the beginning that mentioned Chris. However, each played a different role in her delusion than they did in real life (if they showed up at all). That's why the phone line is dead at the end of the movie when she is with the real cops who come to ask about Chris's death. There never was anyone else on the other end; there never were serial murders. Joe is 100% in her head. The very end scene where he said it was always about her, I think this is more for the audience. We aren't supposed to focus on the "murderer" that "killed" the other women, our focus should have been on her the whole time. Also remember Joe kept telling her that she needed help,that she was messed up. She was mentally sick all along.
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