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doubles, mirrors, moiders

posted 20 years ago by lemonzest
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not much to add to other posts here i've been reading.

i don't agree with the schizophrenia theories, especially those arguments that claim it's indicative of the depths of harry's mental illness that the "good cop" has such a detailed history/personality. seems like a cop out interpretation. if that's the case you could have any number of inconsistencies in a movie then chalk them up to the protagonist's "madness".

what i see mostly is two versions of the same guy. there are 2 separate guys. one represents the life that could've been. the other represents all that potentially good stuff gone wrong. the intersection of the two men and their lives is harry's wife. her death.

claire was pregnant, the good cop had a small child, quinn. good cop was well, a good cop and harry's a pussy's excuse for a cop, a security guard, who's not exactly being commended for anything.

this in addition to the house on the opposite side of the street, all the mirrors and reflections, and a bunch of other stuff i'm missing probably.

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[–] Daddymac11 20 years ago

Interesting post but you will find my next comment quite ironic. From reading some of your observations it has become clearer in my mind but it has become clearer in that i think he is schizophrenic!!

The 'good cop' is too much of an opposite for me for it to be a coincidence. I think he is this commended, well-loved, family man which is what he wants to be.

Schizophrenics concoct all sorts of implausible conspiracies of people against them (the meeting of the three men who apart from the good projection of himself, all seem deliberately odd: man with barely a chin and a coloured man who looks badly made-up)

He is making up all sorts of ideas just by searching through these tapes and looking in the mall (summed up by the man he keeps staring at in the mall who eventually moves on)

I am still thinking and developing my ideas and i am sorry if it doesn't make much sense.
I only saw it for the first time last night and i appreciate you have had more time to study it.