Can someone explain


Why he burnt the passport at the end and why he kept her?
It was an amazing film, but he was all freaky at the end
Explain please :)

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He killed his wife.

The burning of the passport served two ends.

1. It signified the metaphorical death of his old wife and the beginning of his new one in the form of Dale.

2. His wife had moved abroad. How can that be done without a passport? Short answer, it can't ergo he killed her and she's no doubt buried on the property (Which could explain his fear of the outside).

There are clues throughout that he had killed his wife in a fit of rage not least of which his treatment of her portrait.

I would assume that everything he told Ron was entirely true and finding out about his wife's affair with (perhaps) his father, he killed her. Factor in that agoraphobia requires a trigger. Victims of crime are most susceptible, but it's not beyond possibility that a man who kills his wife outside in a fit of jealous rage could develop a fear of wide open spaces.

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I think he burned the passport because Dale looked like the woman in the picture - Gabrielle, and he didn't want her to leave.

He was left all alone, unable to leave his house, his only connection to the outside world being his housekeeper, and the psychotic Ron just killed his parrot, leaving him with no one. It's only logical he wouldn't let Dale go, considering one woman already left him without saying a word and giving him the chance to stop her (which explains why he got angry enough to slash a picture, but freaked out when his bird was killed, and couldn't stomach killing Ron - he's not a killer)

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Wrong.

harbinger-1 is right.

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Just because you think it too of course ? Fair enough

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I think what Hollow Ground meant was that Andrew couldn't commit premediated murder himself, but could kill someone in a fit of rage.

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I think he burned the passport because Dale looked like the woman in the picture - Gabrielle, and he didn't want her to leave.

I agree with this. I think she realized that he is creepy or crazy.

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I thought he had killed his wife, too, and was obviously crazy, but I was also watching it really late at night so maybe I missed something. When he was talking to her at the very end explaining that he had to call the cops he said specifically that. "I've got two dead bodies on my property!" Obviously he had the body of her boyfriend, but who would be the other body he was referring to? No one else died on screen, right? Or did I miss something, maybe dozing off a little?

My understanding was in that scene he said he had the two bodies and then was explaining to her that he didn't kill his Father.(thus implying it was his gf that he had killed)

Also I was watching it on demand not on DVD so there wasn't an alternate ending available.

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i thought the other body was that guy in the trunk of the couple's car that they had to ditch.

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"Why would he keep her?" dude, are you serious? she is smoking hot and he is a weird guy with zero options as he won't leave the house.

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No doubt in my mind..............he killed his wife.

"Stalingrad. . . The fall of Stalingrad was the end of Europe. There's been a cataclysm."

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yes he obviously killed her. thats why they showed the pond with the bubbles rising to the top. they were, pretty obviously actually, saying thats where she is and her bloated body is giving off gases, because thats what happens with bodies in water.

"Malt does more than Milton can in justifying God's ways to man."

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I assumed the bubbles rising up were from the car that Ron pushed into the water, not Gabrielle's body. After ~6 months, a corpse isn't going to be expelling any gases. I think it's far more likely that, if he killed her, she's buried somewhere in the yard.

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Well killing his wife fits, i believe he might have not.
His wife changed her name and everything after Ron's father gave her the money so she had to leave immediately.
Also burning the passport was to keep Dale always at home. She couldn't leave the country or be outside because she was a suspect of murder.

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i got the impression that most of what andrew told ron was a lie.

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The bubbles in the pond were the trunk of the couple's car opening, releasing the body that was in there. They went on the run in the first place because of a murder, remember? The original murdered guy was the second body.

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