Why would you have an affair in your own home...?
...where your husband could walk in at any moment?
A beer for the man with the beard!
That is the one item that makes this movie interesting. But this does happen quite often.
There are people who do have affairs in their own homes. My brother divorced his wife at some point after another woman provided secretly recorded audio of her husband with my brother's wife in their home while she was at work. You can buy audio recorders that record audio based on sound level automatically for a very low price. They are easy to hide.
But in this movie, the only evidence that Nikki did have an affair in their home is the description from a guy who ended up going to the facility in Baltimore. The movie never validates what Pat says happened. It could have been a hallucination or perhaps she did have an affair.
He was court order to the facility as a plea bargain after he beat the wife's lover half to death. If it was a hallucination, he wouldn't have been in that place. They established that in the first scene with the therapist. The therapist would have corrected him if it weren't real.
shareIf it was a hallucination, he wouldn't have been in that place.I probably should have said delusion instead of hallucination in my original comment. Having said that, another delusion incident provides additional reasons on why Pat should be in a mental institution rather than a prison. During his initial appointment, Pat told the therapist that a week earlier before the incident Pat called the cops and claimed that the History teacher and his wife were plotting against him by embezzling money from the local high school. It wasn't true. It was a delusion.
They established that in the first scene with the therapist.The therapist did not say anything about what Pat says he saw in the shower. The therapist neither agreed or disagreed. He instead asked Pat to tell him something that happened before and after the "incident". The doctor likely doesn't know for sure what happened. The doctor only knows what the police report says. The police report isn't going to say she was having an affair. Even if she was having an affair she was likely dressed and hiding all the clues by the time the cops got there. The police report likely said Pat beat the crap out of a coworker and linked it with his prior delusion. It is very unlikely that a man will end up in a mental institution because he beat up a guy having an affair with his wife in his home. It will be a simple assault and battery argument (no mental health implications).
Pat also lied about the incident with his father on his second doctor appointment by initially telling the doctor that he didn't hurt his father (when he did injure him). He then lied about it to Tiffany (weight lifting accident). Pat was having delusions in the opposite direction about his relationship with Nikki for a time period after he got out of Baltimore. He was making excuses so he would be able to contact her. He said "We would have fights and not talk to each other for weeks. But that is normal."
This whole situation related to Nikki is what adds to this movie in my opinion. While I prefer the possibility that Nikki did have an affair, and he just handled the situation badly, I have failed to find any solid evidence in the film that proves what really happened. share