erm help.... ne one please... heavy spoilers

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Hi,

You have 2 ways to see this:

The easy way for the ones who likes movies that shows just what you need:

<< there was this cop that went to assasinate ..... >>

And this was a very boring movie.


And you the hard way, much more interresting:

<< When he went into the house ... was that like him that knocked on the door >>

I forgot this one and I suppose you're right.

<< Also if the cop was also him >>

I don't think they're related, Peter is just the bad guy made by all pictures he took at the mall, he was created to explain him why.

<< they had a son that was the same age >>

He's the imaginary son the Harry would had with his wife.

All this is schizo, created by the murder of his wife, the DEA agent's death (not corrupted I guess), the cop's questioning about a misterious past of his wife and his quest to find out what happened.

The mind is aterrible thing to taste.

JPM

While there are shades of Secret Window and Mulholland Drive in this film, I belive the writers created the story to let US as viewers choose which scenario we believed. I myself go for the realism aspect as the schizo one is lame considering so many films have gone there lately. (Note the 2 above).

First of all...

The cops showed Turturro a picture of the killer. He vaguely recalled him being a neighbor of his. Since he was completely in "find my wife's killer" mode, he went to the house. He snuck in. He found some negatives of the family they had left behind. (People DO leave stuff behind when they move and they had not rented the place out yet anyhow. The bad cop could have come back later to look for things he left. It was not TOO long after the killing and he had a lot to focus on besides what he might have forgotten and had probably taken all that he thought or found might possibly incriminate him when the family moved out).

So Turturro finds the pictures, studies them and goes on a quest to find the wife of the man he is not pretty sure shot his wife.

Later on when the bad cop finds out Turturro is looking for him and he goes to his "partners" in the "kill the bad cop" room, you can tell that they were telling the bad cop to FOCUS on his job and basically get rid of anything in his way. The bad cop then starts to feel bad about what he did.
I believe he went to meet Turturro, intending to kill him, but chickened out. Turturro may very well have gone back into that room and killed the cop after he was shot (but we do not know for sure). If he did, then it was cleaned up by the bad cop's partners. OR maybe the bad cop just let Turturro THINK he was dead and then perhaps disappeared into a new life.
All in all, I believed this was the way it was until the very last scenes where he did not ask the cops at the hospital to go and find the lady again...since the one from the restaurant OBVIOUSLY had been the one to get in touch with the family in the first place.
But he may very well have been close with the bad cop (thus a bad cop himself) and said, "I never saw this guy before...he never gave me a description of a lady. There is no picture." etc. etc.
But if it were me I would have gone right back to that restaurant, found that waitress and asked her to be a witness for me.
Then he could get a good private investigator to help him out because obviously in the towns he was in in this film, you could not trust ANY COPS!
So I guess, not explaining at the end left the movie hang for me. It made it more interesting. But would there be any point to the film if he was schizophrenic?

Does anyone else agree that there was no intent of mental illness to this film?
Shelly