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Who The Hell Is Bobby? (Spoiler**)

posted 13 years ago by vghb95a
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Who is Bobby and why is Rose so focus on Mary? Why didn't Mary just get an answering machine to screen her calls? Or a new less creepy phone? (Rotary dial phone? For real?) Or just change her phone number? Why didn't Mary call the cops about the skeletons in the closet when she first found them? Why set the movie in Puerto Rico while so little of the local was used? Questions.

Edit: Okay, more question, why didn't Mary called the police when her soon to be ex-husband keeps violating her restraining order against him? Also an observation, one thing that a woman like Mary could have to make her life easier and my viewing experience much satisfying,when said woman have a husband from hell, is a firearm. I guess they don't have guns in Puerto Rico. [Sarcasm]

Edit: Why didn't Mary asked Rose to buy some Apple's stocks? Or IBM's?

[–] kadeskiss 13 years ago

I haven't finish watching the movie yet,but Bobby is Rose's husband.

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[–] mafi_p 13 years ago

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand your questions and I had them until the end of the movie. But at the end, when Mary looks at her hand and there's a scar there (I have no idea where it came from, I probably missed it) and then kills her ex and puts him behind the wall too... I don't know, I got the feeling she wasn't right in the head and that's probably why she didn't call the police or didn't do any of the things you mentioned.
But throughout the entire movie I kept asking "why!!!! are you stupid?" I couldn't understand either why she didn't change her number, why she didn't call the police about the bodies or her ex, things like that.
The end left me wondering though, I don't know how sane Mary really is at that point so...

Oh, him? He dies...

[–] Devils_Mentor 13 years ago

There are a good many unanswered questions like: How does she still have Bobby's phone number, a number from the 70's; unless the phone numbers in Puerto Rico are tide in the physical address that makes no sense. And then there is the issues about the no call to the cops about the bodies in the wall, as well as her estranged husband violating the injunction. But as for the cut on the hand and her spontaneous craziness of killing her Ex, that's been answered; the cut is from when she told herself, as a little girl, to kick the mirror in the wardrobe and take a piece of shard mirror and kill rose. If you were to take something such as a piece of glass, or in the case a piece of mirror and barehandedly stab someone with it, the forward momentum of your stabbing action, coupled with your grip around the razored edge of the glass, would cause said glass to cut your hand as well. And as for her killing her Ex. Well if you were a little kid and you had some mad, crazy ass person trying to kill you, but you were able to kill them instead, I'm sure you would misplace some of your sanity too. ;)

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[–] smoke0 13 years ago

She got the scar on her hand from telling herself on the phone to break the mirror and pick up a piece of it and stab Rose with it, presumably cutting herself in the process.

Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.

[–] ninja_nakashima 13 years ago

The scar came from her childhood when she killed Rose. It was there to tell her that she had killed somebody before and could do it again or to remind her how everything started, by her telling Rose to pretty much off her boyfriend/husband. I think she was rather sane, sure the humming was a bit much, but after a guy like that I would be happy to off him too. Besides calling the police for an ex going against a restraining order is pretty useless. It usually results in a death not being saved.

Not calling for the bodies and all is also pretty explainable. When you are being stalked by a woman in the past, it is kind of hard to call the police. They will think you are crazy at first, sure the bodies are hard to deny, but then they have to find Rose. That wouldn't stop her from doing things in the past, so what would have been the point.

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[–] grindhouse19 13 years ago

It's pronounced Puerto Rico and we DO have guns!!!

[–] vghb95a 13 years ago

It's pronounced Puerto Rico and we DO have guns!!!

Puerto Rico, got it. I was wondering why it didn't looked right. Check spelling didn't catch it. About the guns in Puerto Rico, I guess you didn't catch my Sarcasm.

[–] AMSATcorp 13 years ago

pronounced? you do realize you are reading this and not hearing it? (hope I pronounced everything ok for you)

[–] smoke0 13 years ago

She didn't call the police because she knew that would make her ex angrier and have an excuse to do even worse than what he was doing now. He was trying to get her to call the cops; that's what abusive people do, they want to blame you for their 'forced' retaliation. At the time she found the skeletons, she was already so freaked out and confused with the time-twisting events she couldn't even explain to the police how she found them or explain them without looking like an accomplice...As for the phone, I assumed it just went with the apartment, maybe each apartment had its own phone with its own number tied to that address. Strange, but I can't think of any other explanation. Although I usually complain about idiotic actions and plot holes, I had no trouble suspending disbelief while watching this film, I felt it was that good.

Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.

[–] mafi_p 13 years ago

How could she be an accomplice if they were already skeletons?? Those people were buried there when she was a little girl and she never lived there. Also, at the point where she found them, she had no connection to Rose, not even as a child. So if the police went to check her background, they wouldn't have found anything that could relate her to the murders...

Oh, him? He dies...

[–] smoke0 13 years ago

We know that, but the cops initially wouldn't, and she would still have to explain
how she found the bodies. Tenants don't usually break down brick walls in their rental apartments for no reason...

Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.

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[–] EmmanKiddo 13 years ago

To be honest, most of your questions are DUMB! I suggest you to watch this movie once again.

Bobby was Roses Husband. She went nuts, obssesed with him, killed him and then she killed herself with the phone line, she choked herself.

She got so focus on Mary, cause Mary just bought the apartment where Bobby lived. It doesnt matter if Mary changed her number, changed the phone or whatever. She was gonna keep calling, cause she is a ghost, she is dead! She killed herself in that house! What we are seeing is her manifestation! No better way than in the actual phone, by calling.

Why setting the movie in Puerto Rico? Idk maybe the director likes our culture.

She didnt called the police cause she was petrified about her ex husband.

She didnt called the police when she saw the corpses, cause she was soo freaked out about the time changing and all the occurences that happened.

I found this movie to be quiet refreshing and awesome. 7.5/10.

[–] vghb95a 13 years ago

Why setting the movie in Puerto Rico? Idk maybe the director likes our culture.

I didn't say this movie shouldn't set in Puerto Rico, I said why this movie used so little of the locals if it was to take place in Puerto Rico. I think you should read my post again.

Also, if the audience have to come up reason or rationale for the short comings of the characters and the plot of the film, instead of letting it played out in the movie, is a sign of bad script writing.

Don't get me wrong, I think this film is pretty good. The idea of a person from the past can torment someone 30 years in the future is a good one, but the devil is in the details after all.

[–] jack-jh 13 years ago

She was gonna keep calling, cause she is a ghost, she is dead!

You're only one out here who should re-watch the movie as obviously you didn't get it.
First, she wasn't ghost who calls from ghost world or whatever, she was like still alive, back in past when she was trying to call her husbands lover somehow she managed to call to future, future and past were coexisting. At beginning, she didn't know that, later when crazy lady had realized that she can call to future, "friendship terrorism" calls begun.
The ending was a bit disappointing.

[–] BigEmpty 13 years ago

jack jh,
you have the best explanation so far. Thanks.
So George existed except Rose killed him and that's why he became non existent in the present because George died in the past.
Same with the love interest John Guidi, who really did exist in the present but killed off by Rose from the past when John was still a kid therefore John became non existent as an adult in Mary's time.
In conclusion, the past figured out a way to change the future until young Mary killed Rose.
Then the ending, present Mary just went insane when she could have been out of the woods. Not a good ending though.

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[–] jamescamus 13 years ago

That wasn't sarcasm, it was Racism.

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