I can't beleive that I stayed up last night till almost 2 AM and fell sound asleep at the end of this STUPID movie. My question is--did we ever find out IF he really killed his wife??? I lost about the last 15 minutes. What a waste of my beauty sleep! Please help!
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I have absolutely no idea. I haven't been this disapointed at the end of a movie since "The River King", and for the same reasons: things were going on during the movie, that seemed like they had relavence at the time, then had nothing to do with the actual ending (that or it was over my head). Why were the doctor and police officer popping pills as well? Why was he still claiming he didn't kill his wife in the end if he actually did? Why did they include the bad piano playing? Is that what drove the professor mad? I'm guessing it was either that or the giant baby in the tub... From the diary passeges it sounded like the professor treated his wife like dirt, or ignored her, and that she had self image issues, I thought that she committed suicide and the professor was trying to cover it up, why else would he burn the diary? To hide the infidelity, which would be motive for murder? He committed suicide in the end, after a failed attempt, so I'm going out on a limb and saying that he killed her.
share"Why did they include the bad piano playing? Is that what drove the professor mad?"
I should think so. I was cringing while that was going on. Make it stop.
yes, sad to say the ending ruined the excellent movie. I watched this movie late at night and almost fell asleep, but after I saw that bathroom scene it scared me quite a bit ;)
he finds out he killed her, the part how he finds out was not that bad, but after that the movie is... well awful
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If you like this one,.......
See David Lynch's "LOST HIGHWAY"....... this movie is very very Lynchian, and maybe a little bir Cronenberg like,......
I didn´t care for this movie. The ending was confusing but i gather he did kill his wife and was having this anxiety and insomnia because he also killed the baby. He only found out about the baby from the policeman and the diary. I thought the idea of this film was good but it just did not connect enough to enjoy it without asking yourself too many questions.
shareI thought the ending was great. Gives you a lot to think about and interpret about the human condition and the influence that drugs/trauma/insomnia etc have on the human condition.
It is quite obvious that he killed his wife. I assume the trauma caused him to completely remove it from his memory. His insomnia and the use of drugs caused him to have delusions which where the memories in his head coming to life in the form of hallucinations. Such as when he looked out the window and its him looking out.
As for the psychiatrist and cops usingdrugs, i assume those are just drug use undertones just to get that aspect more aware in the film. It doesnt mean anything just putting it out there for you to think about it.
at the end the camera moves up on the black hole where there was the leak...I interpreted this as him losing his grasp on reality. aka water dripping through a black hole...slowly...eventually making the basement flooded with water 3 feet high and rising...but at the end...the dripping has stopped.
I didn´t care for this movie. The ending was confusing but i gather he did kill his wife and was having this anxiety and insomnia because he also killed the baby. He only found out about the baby from the policeman and the diary. I thought the idea of this film was good but it just did not connect enough to enjoy it without asking yourself too many questions.
To me, the ending is still unknown. Since his wife appeared at the end, I assumed that due to his insanity, his wife was actually never missing in the first place and the entire movie was a dream sequence. But what the hell do I know?
shareIt's cyclical... The beginning and the end focus on the same subject (hole in ceiling). I like to think that there are clues that viewers choose to interpret to create a few different stories and conclusions. After I accepted that everything I was watching was his interpretation of reality, I could suspend beliefs that any kind of reality exists. I concluded that he is either unconscious, having a lucid dream, or truly delusional (triggered PTSD or schizophrenia). I've got a post on this board that focuses on the pill bottle label as definitive proof that he's off the rails, definitely entertaining stuff on the bottle.
MovieSnobsNeedNotApply:Bad movies don't exist, they're just unintentionally riff-worthy films.
i dislike the movie but like the way it was made
iv seen too many movies where the lead character is in denial and its been them all along, was really hoping for some twist but no. he's killed his wife, gone insane and forgot he did it and slowly remembers. game over
on the other hand, the suspense and build up was great!
I have to respectfully disagree.
As for me, I liked that there was no big reveal, no big twist: it's been pretty obvious (for us viewers) that he's killed his wife pretty early in the movie, as soon as he finds a finger under his bed - which may not have really happened, but it doesn't matter, what does matter is his reaction to it: he immediately goes and tries to make it disappear before the police arrives.
- A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.