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The ending was staged (spoilers obviously)


Why would the mom ONLY hire a private investigator? The cops would certainly have been involved and there would be more than just these casual questionings from a P.I. There would be several suspects and they would be taken in for questioning. The cell number would have been found out and the car would be found as well. This should be enough of a clue to figure out that she was not missing, but that it was staged and that the the mother writing is actually her.

Nothing can really be believed in the film. We as viewers are supposed to be someone who is reading her blog so we have no idea what is true, since it's anonymous and people are exaggerating and making things up all the time on them. The ending where the real name was revealed is probably not real. Maybe the fact that the professor was a video store clerk is real and that she didn't actually have an affair with the father she was nannying. Maybe.

As she said in the end before she dives in the bath water, she needed a way to end her "reality show" so she makes up the ending for dramatic effect just as she made up the college professor and the affair with Christian Slater. There was really not that much of a reason for someone to abduct her.....I mean there could have been with all the supposed affairs she had (but who knows if those are real or not). The more likely interpretation is that she felt like everyone and the world was out to get her. And she had this blog where so many people say violent things to her. So she wanted to end the blog to avoid all the negativity it created (just like she says to her mother, "why are you soooo negative!!!") and maybe get back at them and have an effect on all the readers who were saying nasty things.

So far all those that are like "who did it" ask yourself why would a P.I. only be hired and not the cops and you have your answer right there.

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The cops would certainly have been involved...

An adult is allowed to disappear as long as there is no foul play then the police will not get involved. In the movie when Katie went missing she did so on her own. That's why her mom hired the private investigator because the police wouldn't help her.




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Exactly.

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So are you really saying "missing person" cases are not a thing if there is no indication of kidnapping, threats or something fishy? Doesn't the police do something if let's say; one day, out of the blue, your father/mother/brother/son/daughter/husband/wife casually walked out of the door and never came back again? And also didn't show up any other place he/she used to go regularly as work/school/friends. I don't think that's the case.

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If there is no suspected foul play when an adult goes missing the police will do little to nothing to get involved.

http://www.lapdonline.org/lapd_adult_missing_persons_unit

This is the policy for the Los Angeles Police Department but police departments across the country follow the same policy.




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I already understand that their involvement is limited. But the policy doesn't exactly say what the limitations are. Can't they at least look for the car someone took when he/she got away? Do you know those simple but definitive restrictions in these cases? I guess the limitations are due to privacy rights of a person considering he/she voluntarily disappeared; but I don't think at least searching his/her last known vehicle to see if he/she was in an accident or if there was some foul-play isn't an invasion of privacy unless you inform the people looking for the person. I still don't think that they wouldn't even look for his/her car. What is in their limited boundaries then? Only asking all the people who knew him/her? Even that sounds more intrusive to privacy than looking for his/her car imo, so why not just seek his/her car? And if the location and/or the state of the car indicates foul-play than you have a serious case now.

Plus, what's the exact definition of "possible foul-play"? In the movie she got a blocked id phone call and she rushed out. Isn't this at least suspicious? I know it's not alarming but still could be a reason. Also, a mother could willingly make up a lie, I would do if I was a father and my daughter was missing with no apparent reason, I would say something like "she got a death threat" or "she had bruises once when she came home" or "she got a few more of those anonymous calls and looked afraid" to give the police a reason to suspect faul play. I don't care if I'm later convicted for lying to the police.

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I think this theory makes the most sense. Along with everything you pointed out, midway through the film Katie writes a letter to her therapist pretending to be her mother. So it's certainly something she has done before.

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Wouldn't the car be stolen? Since she got it from the people that she nannies for. So there is the excuse for police involvement.

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