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to those questioning the psych ward part & ending (major spoilers)


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I just watched this film and honestly really loved it. Definitely not the typical bread and butter romance movie. Loved the telepathic part of it. With that being said, I've seen a number of people kind of rip on the ending and question why she was sent to a psych ward from her husband with so little evidence of her being "crazy"... I will try to explain my interpretation of this film.
First and foremost, if you never seen it, there is a new BBC show called "Orphan Black". What does this have to do with this film "In Your Eyes"? Well not much, except for one thing. Orphan Black is about a show with clones, and each clone had a "monitor" assigned to them. A monitor was someone that is secretly part of their life. They can be a friend, husband, lover, or eg. that is secretly in on them being a clone, and the clone doesn't know about it. This monitor reports to a secret organization that created the clones and knows about their existence.

I think the girl in this movie (Rebecca), her doctor husband was the equivalent of Orphan Black's monitor. If you watched closely and "read between the lines", I think her husband knew about her telepathic abilities, as well as that other doctor guy he worked with. I think he didn't love her so much as he was someone who was watching and "monitoring" her telepathic abilities. I thought this part of the movie became very clear when he was able to throw her in the psych ward, no questions asked. Notice it was him and that other doctor guy that threw her in there? And the fact that he was a doctor in the first place?! It seemed very convenient of him to be in her life. The bottom line; the husband was a scumbag who know about her telepathic abilities and he was secretly conducting experiments on her and learning of her abilities.
Number two, the ending. A lot of people grip the ending, eg. "why did the guy (Dylan) get in a big rush to save her in the end?" Because if you recall, Rebecca blacked out one period for three months, she told Dylan about it. It is possible that her husband (or hospital) had the ability to shut off her telepathic abilities, or maybe they were fearful she would lose them for good if she went through the psychiatric stuff again.

That is all. I just think many people really didn't think about the ending too well. Yes, the ending is fast and action paced, but the movie was kind of building up to that. Eventually something was going to happen and it was kind of obvious that Rebecca would be taken advantage of because she made the most obvious displays of her abilities out in public. Overall, I'm glad that it wasn't one character going crazy and that they both actually existed or this movie would have made a 180!

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I am a big fan of Orphan Black (If you couldn't tell by my username and avatar) and I also enjoyed this movie. But I don't buy into your interpretation. Her husband is a well respected doctor, and Rebecca has a history of 'mental illness'. Not a stretch at all that he would be able to have her committed. Now the mental illness was tied directly to the telepathy (although I think neither her nor Dylan had a full understanding of what the telepathy was until near the beginning of the film).

The way I interpret the film, it WAS the telepathy that had been the cause of so much of the problems in both Dylan and Rebecca's lives. It made them both feel crazy, and seem crazy. But it gave them an intimacy and a connection that was unshakable. The developed a deep love for each other, and the only way they were going to find their 'sanity' was to be together.

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Spot on!!! Thank you for expanding on the plot... makes perfect sense now!!

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I don't think so at all- I think it was about manipulative man (the husband), with a wife who was emotionally vulnerable- being in a position where he could easily convince another doctor that his wife needed to be ve 'put away' for her own good.
It was his way of controlling her.
It does happen - if he could convince others that she was a danger to herself, she could be sectioned.

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