So why was killer killing them?
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Lea tells Julia that the care-taker guy is the killer...how could she exactly know this?Guessing this from just a key seems improbable.
Also,what's the motive of the guy behind killing the sisters?
The problem I've got with this film is the ridiculous attempts at resolving all the loose ends in a "twisted" manner, which just made the viewer in me give up and stop caring. Why was the killer killing them? Ask the script writer genius who came up with this crap.
shareHe wanted no one to look/see him, just to blend into the dullness of everyday life, a nobody that was his way of existing. So anyone who noticed him or felt his precence were fair game.
His mother pretended that she was blind when he was a youg child - which may have been the catalyst for anger and lonliness.
He was jealous of people in love and wanted someone who couldn't see him but would love him for who he was despite his perchant for killing. I could go on but wont.
I thought the film was not crap in any way, some scenes were bloody nerve shredding, some too were dreamlike even fairy tale like (Del Toro's influence is there to see).
Overall an above average Spanish gothic chiller (just slightly flawed). You should maybe watch and listen out for various clues as they are there. The ending was quite touching and sad.
I assumed he was killing them because, even though the women were blind and he thought they should feel dependent on him, they still didn't want to be with him. I think he wouldn't have tried to kill Julia if she'd said she would stay with him and that she loved him back. From what he said, he loved blind women because they could "see" him when nobody else in the world could. It was strange at the end when he realised the police could see him: he couldn't bear to live.
I didn't think the film was crap either. There were times in the film where I thought "why did she stay in that house" or "why didn't she throw the boiling hot tea in his eyes", but that didn't stop me from finding it a thoroughly creepy and engrossing experience.
He kills because he is The Killer.
There's some vague suggestion that he has a poor self-image and anger management problems - all down to his mother - so he somehow manages to get in with blind women who will just 'see' the loverman.
But I don't really know why he kills people.
Why, for example, does he get the twin sister to commit suicide?
Is it because he's The Killer, and that's what Killers do?
Is it just me being thick, or was all this 'invisible man/spirit force' incomprehensible hogwash?
Surely he represents the pain and suffering in our society that we ignore out of choice/circumstance? OK, this example is a bit extreme but many crazy things happen in this world where we turn a blind eye (pardon the terrible pun) and do not value other human beings.
There's clearly nothing at all supernatural about the film.
Using fuses to avoid been seen/being able to see isn't quantum physics and doesn't require virgin to be sacrificed.
Sure, some of the twists and turns are bit far fetched. The convenience of some situations is a bit silly, but I did like how most of the characters were flawed/odd, even the young girl who was trying to help still behaved strangely and unpredictably.
It's a nice contemplation on how much we can see/not see and how we interpret what we do see (the young girls legs in her final scene are all we've really seen of her - there is no way of knowing if she's about to attack or save or if she's been stabbed through the mouth....a crass example but maybe someone will understand!?).
Overall a bit trashy, over-sentimental soundtrack, too many (unnecessary?) plot complications but I haven't jumped so much in a long time and the camera-flash stabbing scene was pretty cool. No Pan's Labyrinth but not bad for a slasher.
dario, I agree that this 'wasn't bad for a slasher', but that is a pretty damning compliment.
As a film, I thought it was pretty bad - the way the killer was set up as a Freddy Kruger-type demonic figure, the silly plot twists, but worst of all the abysmal cliche of the scantily dressed vulnerable woman stumbling through a dark house chased by a psycho with a kitchen knife.
Maybe it's my own fault for not checking out first - I didn't realise it was a slasher flick, shame on me.
There were some good bits - yep, I liked the strobo-climax, and I liked the way the killer merged into the shadows like some nasty insect.
I thought the worst cliché was that it all turned out to be Mom's fault. So not only is "Crazy Mom" a lazy plot device, now she's being dragged out as the sole raison d'être for serial killing...
Aside from that, the inconsistent character development bugged me. I.e. Mom's just been reunited with Son after he chases Screaming Blind Woman into her living room. Screaming Blind Woman happens to be an acquaintance of Mom's. What does Mom do?! Reach out to her friend?! Ask her son what's going on?! Whack! Mom strikes Screaming Blind Woman over the head with a frying pan. Because that's just what Crazy Mom does, y'know?! Or at least, that's what all those other horror movies tell me she'd do... let's just hope nobody in the audience has a legitimate understanding of psychology...
It's a shame too because I think the direction was well done; the actors were capable and even parts of the story seemed credible enough. It was just the writing... If only they'd hired somebody with a little self-restraint to rework the script, sculpt a more cogent story, and 'unstuff the bag', they might've had something really worthwhile on their hands.
He was not killing anyone he was looking for a blind woman to love him. He attempted to make her sister love him by making her blind but she choose suicide over being with him. Then he tried it with her but she couldn't kill herself.
He killed the old man and girl because they were witnesses and he killed her husband and framed him (by the phoney affair letter) so she would be free to love him.
I agree. It wasn't a bad one at all! Isn't it funny how some people diss movies that doesn't spell everything out for them? ;) The clues are all there if you pay attention.
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