At the end, she leaves the crime scene with Roy's car! Why?
She left Myra's car on street.
Now police will think Myra killed Roy and they will be after her!! Eventhough police doesn't know she is dead, they will be after her (after Lilly who took Myra's identity)
Yeah, I wondered abut that too.
But maybe she doesn't plan on being Myra for very long, and is just trying to make following her trail tougher.
It also depends on how long it takes for Roy to be discovered. It didn't sound like he had many friends. He's probably going to be there a while, until he starts to rot and smell enough - and Lily hopes to be long-gone by then.
That the police will think Moira killed Roy is the whole point. Leaving Moira's car behind buys Lilly more time to recreate herself. The police can't track a car that's already at the scene of the crime. On the other hand, they could track Roy's car just as easily. So... a question still remains.
shareYeah, either she's in Myra's car, which may or may not have been spotted in the vicinity of a murder scene - or she's in Roy's car, the car belonging to a guy who's been murdered.
Hmmmmm.....I pick Myra's car.
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Whatever you say.
Either way, within a week or so, they're looking for her, or Myra.
So, whether she leaves in Roy's car or Myra's car, they know that she was the last one to see Roy - especially with Myra's car still parked out front.
If she takes Myra's car, it's just the old man's word that Myra was there, the last time someone saw Roy alive. Leaving Myra's car connects her to the murder scene.
Bobo doesn't even know that Lily's still alive at this point.
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No - I agree that Lilly's not going to be Myra for too long. But, at least to a lot of us, it seemed that leaving in Roy's car would be even more dangerous, and was a mistake.
shareOK, with all minds at work, here's what we have...
Lilly hides her face as she enters the lobby, and then removes the lightbulb in the hallway before she even enters Roy's apartment. She's obviously paranoid about being seen. So, this means she may have parked a fair distance from the building, allowing her to slip in and out on foot without drawing attention to Moira's car which may already be marked by Bobo's men, who, may be parked outside of Roy's building watching for it.
Then Roy shows up and is unexpectedly killed. Now there's a murder to runaway from. BUT, Lilly will be long gone before the police know about that.
So at this point it's probably still just Bobo that Lilly is worried about, and Roy's death has just provided her with a getaway car that Bobo's men probably won't recognize. She'll just ditch it later, like she has just ditched Moira's car.
This where the film's editing might be a bit flawed... none of this is made very clear.
Our minds are already blown by what has just happened between Roy and Lilly, so the car business should have been laid out better for the audience. Then again, how much of the audience even noticed the car switch? I didn't for a long time, and I've seen the film repeatedly.
In Jim Thompson's book, the car business was never even mentioned. It's hard to say now who had the better idea.
Posting on this board put me in the mood to read Thompson's book again, and I'll have to correct a mistake I made. I wrote that the car business was never mentioned in the book, however... it's clearly stated that Lilly DID park Moira's car a few doors down from Roy's building.
I just wanted to clear that up before a troll came on here and corrected me.
I hope we've cleared this up for the original poster who posed the question. Notice how they've just stayed out of it? LOL!
share....But i was there, all along, reading your thoughts and opinions, checking every other day if new answers would be posted
And thanks for all of your comments. I didn't expect much answers anyway. Like you said the car switch shouldn't have been an issue, the big issue was the mother-son relationship. But I like to pick on certain thing and then ask IMDB members what they think, and start a "debate".
I just recently found out about this movie that I watched just to see Anjelica's performance. She was perfect (obvisouly), I loved her and the movie. Ive watched it 3 times since Jan and I never watch movie twice. The movie, the story was cleaver and shocking.
After reading all of you, I kind of understand more, Lilly was in shocked about her son's unexpected death and she was in a hurry. She wanted to get out of there asap because of Bobo. I think Bobo was more a problem, than the police was at that very moment. I think you pointed it out very well with this sentence:
Roy's death has just provided her with a getaway car that Bobo's men probably won't recognize.
Bobo and his crew aren't exactly morons. They know their people. How long do you think it would take for them to figure out that it wasn't Lilly that was dead? Lilly had to do anything and everything she could think of to make her trail go cold and still there was no guarantee she wouldn't eventually get caught. The police are the least of Lilly's worries.
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