Possibility...


I too had about 500 questions after watching this movie. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense, yet at the same time, the more twisted and complex it got. I read quite a few of these other ideas of what happened and now I offer this as a possibility.

Danika never even had a family to begin with. She was always (or for the most part) homeless. She probably did have schizophrenia. She never got over the death of her brother nor forgave her mother for not keeping a close enough eye on them. She fixated on the event. That may have been the starting off point of her insanity.
She obsessed over certain events that happened involving children. But in the end we see that all of these events came from newspaper clippings in her cart. Is it possible there had also been a clipping about a mother and children that had been in an accident? And she somehow molded that into her life? Fitting herself into each of the situations in the newspaper clippings she had? She put herself in the situation with the little girl by being on the street and seeing her be taken away, put herself into the bus accident by being at the store when the breaking news came and so on. Could it be possible that she had simply put herself into the accident with "her kids' death" by her sitting on the bench watching the van crash into the bus? She did this with every other tragic illusion involving kids...why not this one too? She also used the same characters for different roles in the movie, like the nanny/shrink, the man after the "murder" in her house/man there after they had wrecked, man taking the missing girl/creep in her daughter's closet, and I'm sure there were a few more. She just kept building illusion upon illusion until they started to mix together in a way that even confused her, causing random illusions such as the dead dog in the water and the girl shooting up in bed next to her.
Maybe this whole thing was just another delusion her twisted mind factored into her reality. Why not? Nothing else she imagined was real, why should this be any different?
She is nuts, after all.

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I thought the accident at the end really happened and the whole movie was just a vision of how her life would have played out. After the accident she just completely lost it.

But I do see your point. Maybe it was just a delusion. Who knows?

I couldn't tell if she killed her husband or not. It looked like she stabbed him in the throat or sliced his throat and thats what caused the accident.

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It is definitely a possibility, that all this never happened to this lady.
But I think,
1) for a delusion, it would be too detailed and
2) there were repeating details in her delusion, which to me, indicate that something like this really has happened.

I think it's really hard to imagine the entire life out of nowhere. In your version, she would've always been on streets, and hardly could imagine having a family, a car, teaching her kids, etc.

So I think she really had 3 kids and a husband. She caught him cheating and got distracted very much, so ran the red, and into a catastrophical car accident. After she came to, she was in delusion for ever.

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Marie 89, YES!!!! THIS IS EXACTLY IT!!!! The entire movie, up until the end with her sitting on the bench, is a delusion. The story line and her delusions within her delusion are meant to give us, the audience, a better understanding of what it is like for a person with schizophrenia. Delusions can be seemingly normal to the person with such a disease. Not all delusions are demonized or bloodshed type, however there are also those delusions that are quite severe. Therefore, the director and writer want to show how deceiving and how hard it is for the person with schizophrenia to sense what is real vs what is not. The News and Newspapers are just some of the "triggers" of a delusion.

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