Why was Abigail hiding?
Like some other person said, this kind of movie is made for person like me.
Also, how is it possible to go out when she has not gone out for years? That didn't make sense.
She was hiding because she had a Dad who beat her and her mother, she took her money and ran away. She did have paranoia, but she wasn't agoraphobic, that was mostly an act to cover why she didn't leave her apartment.
She was acting the whole time, so it was her CON on the world. Probably she had gained a touch of agoraphobia after pretending for so long (that happens when someone pretends to be sick, they get sick, or if they are an actor in a long role, they take on the ills of the character for a while. We saw here throw open the curtains, symbolically casting off her agoraphobia and identity.
The other commenters here didn't understand the movie and thought it has plot holes, but it doesn't all of their questions are covered in the script.
It was the anniversary of her disappearance, so there had been news stories recently about her. Beau Bridges knew who she was, and he set up the Con with the two others. Abigail knew people would go after her for her money, so she hid in the apartment, but she wasn't crazy, she was smart and had a backup plan, so when the time came, as she knew it must one day, she was ready to bail. She realized she could leave her Abigail identity AND the Justine Waters identity because of Lillian, so she did. Then because the police and press had already found "justine", they wouldn't not be looking for her, so she was free of that idenitty, that's why she says "no baggage" at the end
The funny thing is that when I ran my internet business I stayed indoors for many years too but I didn't feel confined as I was so busy and hooked online speaking to new people everyday it felt like I was all over the world lol.
shareBut the "no baggage" was only to be short-term. Within hours/days, it would become obvious and verifiable that Lillian was NOT Justine. Her whereabouts would then be a big mystery all over again. The identity switch was just to buy Justine time to move to somewhere else. I doubt she would ever feel truly free until death. Sad, really.
"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
She was hiding because she had a Dad who beat her and her mother, she took her money and ran away. She did have paranoia, but she wasn't agoraphobic, that was mostly an act to cover why she didn't leave her apartment.
She was acting the whole time, so it was her CON on the world. Probably she had gained a touch of agoraphobia after pretending for so long (that happens when someone pretends to be sick, they get sick, or if they are an actor in a long role, they take on the ills of the character for a while. We saw here throw open the curtains, symbolically casting off her agoraphobia and identity
I think there was a little more than just a clever con involved in the agoraphobia. If she really wanted to disappear, why didn't she just do so, as she obviously plans to do at the end of the movie? I do agree that there was a backup plan, which must have included an alternative identity, complete with bank account and passport, so she was not paralyzed and incapable of action. But if all she wanted to do was disappear, she could have used that second identity and vanished years earlier. She was genuinely dependent on Ray and, I think, genuinely frightened of going outside and meeting people. No one who was not in pretty bad shape mentally would hide in her apartment for 17 years just as a con to hide her identity. share
Yeah I like the symbolism of the "no baggage" line.
New start to life. Getting outside to someplace "safe and warm."