Yes, but #6 is just conjecture on your part--it's not in the movie. I don't think we should have to fill in the plot for the writers, and maybe that's not what they meant at all.
#6 was in the movie. It was the whole second half. Unless Emma actually DID kill Brittany, and her imaginary friend who looks exactly like Brittany somehow became real and started appearing to Brad. But that would just make no sense. She'd have to be a ghost or some other transdimensional being or whatever.
Brittany feeling bad about what he was doing to Emma and turning on him is the only plausible scenario of what went on after Emma told Brad she "killed" her imaginary friend. She also looks really uncomfortable in the scene with Brad in his home office or wherever it was.
Also, where did the attractive office secretary fit in? I got her confused with Brittany. Didn't Brad give the exact same necklace to both her and Brittany? I didn't understand the dialogue between her and Brad in the beginning, when she said something like "What do we do first?", or was that Brittany?
That was pretty confusing. Don't remember him giving her a necklace, but they certainly made a mistake casting those two actresses for the roles. If I remember correctly, the first time we see Brad talking to Brittany is in the house with Emma sitting outside as they're discussing his plan to convince Emma she's crazy. Up until then, we're not supposed to know that she's real and the two of them are in on a plan to drive Emma crazy, so his secretary is probably the one in any earlier scenes.
If Brad talked this former patient into impersonating the imaginary friend, why didn't he remember that she had both the names Brittany and Rachel?
Because he fell in love with her "Brittany" personality? Also, I don't remember if they explained when the relationship started, but it seemed to be relatively new (since I think they said she was a patient a year or two prior and it didn't seem like they'd been sneaking around that whole time) So maybe when she came back into his life she introduced herself as Brittany and he didn't go back through his records to verify if it was her real name. He may have just believed that "Brittany" was the only personality she now had, and therefore, was her actual self.
Where in the sceenplay did #5 happen? I did not see it-I managed to figure it out on my own, but thought this was an abrupt switch, with nothing leading up to it.
It didn't actually happen on screen, because if it did, the whole second half of the movie would have been ruined. The point of the second half is for the audience to not be sure what exactly is going on. Showing a scene with Brittany coming clean to Emma and the two of them talking about turning the tables on Brad would make the whole second half pointless. When Emma tells Brad she realized she had to kill her imaginary friend, we are supposed to be finding out with him that Emma may have just murdered a real person.
However, Brittany's reaction to what Brad was saying during their discussion in his home office could be a clue to her not being completely on board with his plan, and potentially willing to explain everything to Emma. So you could say there was something leading up to it, although it was subtle.
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