Am I the only one who saw the scary monster face in the car? It was such a short moment in the movie!! Lemon is in the car with Edward and suddenly his face turns into this monsterly thing.
I saw it - that was to show that Edward was "haunted" by what he remembered of Penelope. He only saw her for a second and ran away. Later when he describes her to the sketch artist, it looks like the monster we saw when he was in the car.
Gabe1972 you are wrong - not everyone saw it. I saw the movie at the theater with my kindergartner plus her friend, the friend's older sister, & their mother. The older girl started completely freaking out with terror, and the mom had to take her out of the theater. I couldn't understand why because I had missed the quick shot of the scary face, as had the 2 kindergartners - maybe we were looking down at our popcorn just then. The 3 of us happily enjoyed the whole movie. The mother did tell me later there had been a quick flash of the pig-monster as seen by Edward, but later when I got it on dvd I missed it again! Now that I am reading these message boards, I see it's because I was looking at the wrong point in the movie - I was looking when Edward first saw her, not later in the window. I don't usually keep my eyes glued to the screen when watching a movie on dvd at home. I usually do watch pretty closely in the theater, but still missed this one, since watching a movie with kids can be distracting. So out of our group of 5, only 2 saw the scary face. Not "pretty mcuh everyone" as you claim.
What Gabe1972 should have said was: Anyone who is not 5 or apparently too feeble-minded to follow a simple story on a screen. I'm amazed by this whole "discussion".
Actually, it's not hard. We had a psychology class experiment (badly handled) on what we "saw" in an incident st6aged in class - a purse snatch - that the instructor insisted the class had to get a clear description of the intuder before calling the campus police. I was pre-loaded for the incident/crime: some of the students were in seats conspicuously far from their normal seats. The class' description was a mess (try summarizing everyone you saw today as one person); I got peeved at the errors and described what I saw as I walked out - and "arrested" the culprit in the hall outside and led exactly the guy I described back into the classroom with the purse. [I had been involved in some security work...] The rest is generally covered in the lines above - all of them valid problems or questions.
It wasn't Edward turning into a 'monsterly' thing tho. It showed how he perceived Penelope and in his head built her up to be a horrible monster who "attacked" him. The film is a lot about how our perceptions colour reality and how the media plays a big part (Penelope was seen as a 'monster' and then later the media loved her!)