People don't get the movie, and are confused, but I can explain

Also, don't forget what Joanna's father said about her at 11. She was very violent and out of control. At the time he told her that I didn't connect the dots.

But when Annie became Joanna, a lot of violence due to the murder went on inside of Jo.

Finally Jo/Annie had to go back to LaSalle to redeem her soul.
It seems tho that at the end it is not totally clear WHO is left in Jo
s body.

Its actally a duel occupancy. Its more obvious once you watch the interviews and read some of the script notes and trivia from the film.

But aleast you weren't confused about what was going on- alot of people just gave up when the plot wasn't spoon feed to them.

I saw the film. Within 5 minutes, I saw her literally pointing (!) at the seahorse, and I said out loud, Wow, I wonder what the sea-horse symbolizes... Then very predictable patterns emerged, and before 15 minutes were left, all of us that watched the film had figured out the coming twist...

I'm not saying we are any kind of exceptional viewers, but what I am saying is that this was one hell of a paint-by-numbers "oh-what-a-twist!"-film. Literally spoon-feeding us all the regular pointers as to what is important and nothing was left un-explained by the end. Leaving us with a rather dull and mediocre experience of brown coloring, lacking in innovation.

I did understand by the very end of the movie what had happened... until then, I was thinking that possibly Annie was Joanna's mother, and somehow was guiding Joanna to her real killer, in order to redeem Terry's name - get him out from under the wife-murderer "yoke" he was wearing, and also give him some small measure of peace once he knew who'd murdered his wife & saw the real killer finally brought to justice... the end was a complete twist for me and I liked it better than my theory!

... the hardest thing in this world is to live in it...

jmalmsten, I think you're being too harsh on us mere mortals who needed to see at least some of the reveal toward the end to know what there was to be revealed. The spoonfuls you describe could have been the result of a haunting or possession; mental illness perhaps, or stories Joanna had heard and repressed.

The ending/revelation made me think of The Sixth Sense: it was all so very obvious - once it was explained.

Good movie, and underrated!

The trailer for this film was seriously misleading. People were left expecting and action/horror film. This was more of an introspective psychological suspense film. Those people who were judging it by the trailer would be disappointed because by those standards it would seem to fail. Judging by what the film really was, it was decent. It had flaws for certain, but many strong points. It took three viewings but finally decided I liked it. I'd watch it again.

She deals with self mutilation and menacing visions just because you see her eyes open from the accident doesn't say anything its only on the alternate ending that leads people to believe the other girls soul went into her body she just has a connection to what happened self mutilation and menacing visions cause you to see and hear things etc but hey we all have our own opinion about what happened