Can somebody please explain the ending to me?
I got lost at the last 10 minutes
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Why was another woman at the end?
I know it was the same person but why had two diferrent faces?
In her apartment did they found the body of the other man?
Or only the doll? She killed him?
There were two different women.
Winnie used to date Seth but they broke up and he went on to marry the other girl.
Winnie found another guy, kidnapped him and tied him to a chair.
She then proceeded to live as if they were a normal couple, fantasising that she looked like the other woman because she never got over the fact that Yvonne (that's probably not her name, I can't remember) married Seth, who Winnie always loved.
She fantasised that she and Yvonne were still friends and would have long conversations but in reality, she was just talking to a life-sized puppet she had made.
It's very confusing. I'm not sure if that's all correct. It's just the impression I got from watching.
It's been awhile since I've seen the movie (so it may all be jumbled in my head), but my impression was similar. The way I recalled it, the story was layers of psychosis we were seeing. First layer is that she met another man and they had a deteriorating relationship. The 2nd layer was that she kidnapped him, and fantasized the relationship, ending with her killing him. The 3rd, is that the real woman is who we met at the very end with the police. The entire story of layer 1 and 2 were fantasies she played out with her dolls, and this is why the "dead" man at the end was discovered to be a doll. If I am recalling the wrong movie, my apologies.
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Thanks for your input guys as this ending left me confused as well... Where is the smell that made the neighbors call the cops coming from then if people she s seeing / dating / killing are her puppets? Why is she taken into custody and why is there even an investigation? Confusing!
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I think she did kill the guy she kidnapped that's why the neighbors noticed the smell.
Oh, I thought that was why they focused the camera on all the decaying and rotting food as the reason for the smell.
shareMMMmmmm, I could be mistaken but if she didnt kill anyone...why detained or arrest her?
shareI'm confused as well.
Her neighbors noticed the terrible smell and all the signs of a struggle/possible kidnapping, which led to her questioning. Then when questioned they find the diary confessing all the murders, and one of personalities is convinced she killed all these people. However, during the investigation they were later discovered to be still alive (the first boyfriend) or puppets (the 2nd boyfriend), and the diary to be fiction (dates into the future). Forgive me if I'm fuzzy on this, as I said before I haven't seen it in awhile (so I could be completely wrong!).
She did kill the other guy.
Unlike the whole movie, the ending isn't symbolic. It's a small explanation/conclusion of everything. The face swap trick was a nice touch, caught me off guard.
ps: 6.2? really?
Yeah, the smell was produced by rotten food. Ray corpse was never found, so he was declared "missed".
Don't forget that Winnie was a schizophrenic who used to hear and see things that never happened. So it's quite likely that she in fact didn't kill Ray.
As far as we know, Ray could have been murdered by Winnie or tied and then he somehow managed to escape. OR perhaps Ray visited Winnie's house for lunch, left the place but forgot his cell-phone there, and that's one of the reasons why we assume Ray was there all that time, maybe everything occured only inside winnie's mind.
Anything could have happened to Ray. Perhaps he never was at Winnie's house. Perhaps the only contact he had with Winnie was in the street when she thought he was Seth. Perhaps he was killed in a robbery, or left the country for some unknown reason. Perhaps...
I liked this movie. The best from Oxide Pang that I've seen. It reminds me Cronenberg's "Spider" and to some extent "Memento".
8/10