scene where he kills his mother
is that a copy of Edmund Kemper? or is that jus a coincidence?
shareI don't think that was his mother. I think it was his wife. She looked too young to be his mother.
"If you can do it, it ain't braggin'"-Dizzy Dean
I don't think that it is his mother either, I'm pretty sure it is his wife. And I think it's Ted Bundy. Bundy killed young women in their beds.
Don't think he blew his house up after though!
Ya, I've been wondering about his murdered wife being a 'Ted Bundy' too. I think, if it was meant to be a Bundy copykill and part of his scheme, he would've wanted it to be documented and verified. But since he blew up his house, he was probably just cutting ties and killed his wife along side because she meant nothing to him.
Another thing is that it was him who pointed the police and Helen to her speach in the university with that phone call. In other words he must have been aware that the police knew a 'Ted Bundy' was next and that they might very well trace him through the records on whom attended that class. Even if he hadn't owned a VW Beetle, enough people had seen him with Andy in the bar and it was basically just a matter of time till they'd match it with the appropriate driver's license or some other form of identification.
So, I think he skipped the Bundy murder all together, blew up his house to delay the copy for a while and went straight to the main course, killing Helen in Cullum style.
That whole Mother/wife argument is interesting...the director leaves it up to people to make their own decision...but definetely his mum in my opinion
shareIts his wife.
shareHow can anyone think it's his mother? She is far too young, it is clearly his wife. The actress who plays her is credited as "Peter's Wife" so that clears that up.
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I agree with fearless dude. It's quite a clever touch to cast an actress who is of "indeterminate age", so to speak. She could be a young mother, or an older wife. The viewers can make up their own minds.
The scene where she purses up her lips for a kiss and he just plants a chaste kiss on her forehead is interesting too. It could be that this is his mother who has incestuous sexual demands from him (prompting the question, did he grow up as his mother's "little man", her surrogate husband/partner?) or it could be that this is a wife whom he finds physically repellent, because he gets his kicks from torture and murder, not from sex.
It was his wife. He wore a wedding band, too. Obviously, though, because she is older, it was some kind of marriage of convenience. She could have been sick or infirmed, perhaps just needing companionship. She settles for a quick kiss. In, turn, he gets to live comfortably but, more importantly, he has all the privacy he needs to do his 'hobby'. And, I also think that was Bundy.
shareejverh gets it.
shareIt was his mother. She was the same woman in the video - the hippie chick dancing around in the video from the 60s.
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