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Come on. 'Crazy' people do not act like this. (spoilers)

posted 13 years ago by BlackDog123
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Sociopathic? Sure.

But if he was truly crazy enough to believe his fantasy (that last scene), he would not have been functioning well enough to pull any of this stuff off.

If it was "all in his head" and he never left the mental institution, that was a complete cop out by the filmmakers.

Someone can be homicidal and lack conscience without being "insane." You can have delusional thinking (which he didn't) and not have hallucinations (if he was to the point of hallucinating, there is no way he'd be able to maintain his job, his relationship, his lies and his friendships). Sane people do not have vivid hallucinations. This is a pet peeve of mine - when "insanity" functions almost like the Hand of God. I suppose others may enjoy it, but for me, it's predictable and frustrating. I really wish the cops had ****MAJOR SPOILER*** come to ambush him the same as they did, and he'd burned the house down, but without the final showdown/Jessica Alba nonsense.

I liked this movie throughout. I thought there was some extremely lazy investigating on the part of the police, but overall, the movie was believable and the characters realistically flawed. Until the last 15 minutes - then it lost about 4 stars. 5 out of 10 from me.

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

[–] aaaf-2 12 years ago

There were no dreamsequences, or hallucinations in this film (neither in the book). All that is shown happens, is "reality"

As to why he functioned in the society: In the book it is described Lou molested girls when he was a kid (theres a scene of this in the film), his older brother went "away" for it. Lou stopped doing these things, got a job, a normal life, but his old behaviour came back when he first met the Jessica Alba prostitute. And thats when his sociopathic behaviour really started

[–] BlackDog123 12 years ago

That doesn't make any sense - the scenes preceding the fire were supposed to be real??

Thank you for clarifying his history though:)

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

[–] Aidy 12 years ago

This is IMDB though...there is no absolute, only interpretation. It doesn't matter what was in the book or how the story actually goes...if someone thinks it was all in their head then maybe that person just has a different interpretation of the movie because they are more intelligent than you?

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[–] alienjesus 12 years ago

Wait, I'm lost. I took everything in the movie to have actually happened. What scenes are we saying were hallucinations?

A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom.

[–] jevicci 10 years ago

To the OP's original point, couldn't it have been the case that his insanity got progressively worse. Maybe he wasn't delusional at the beginning, but due to the extreme events that escalate throughout the film, perhaps that could have pushed him over the edge into full-on insanity and delusion?

[–] Revolutionow 9 years ago

this^

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