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The ending... (Spoilers obviously )

posted 16 years ago by darkeval
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*Please don't read this if you haven't seen the movie, it will ruin it for you. You have been warned!*

It started out great, but it got boring towards the end and I didn't like the ending of this movie.

It really went fast downhill from the point De Niro found out he got split personalities. The idea of the twist in the plot was great and I loved it, although I think they revealed it to the audience way too soon, and too obviously. Everything that happened after the twist, when we all knew Charlie was David, was boring because Charlie had been uncovered and he wasn't being scary at all anymore.

The way they revealed it spoiled the movie, cause then the audience didn't have to wonder anymore and there was no point watching the ending then. I would've preferred if they had added another twist or surprise instead, that wasn't so obvious, or had made it so that the audience had to figure the plot ourselves instead of revealing it to us in the middle of the movie and ruining it.

I understand there are alternate endings however wich I haven't seen. I watched it on broadband (cable?) TV and it ended with the girl in lying in bed in a mental hospital after her father got shot, the woman closed the door and it ended. Why? Seemed pointless. (Maybe it would've been better if they just ended the movie when he got shot?)

I watched it with my younger brother and my mother and they didn't get it either. The first half gets 8/10, the second half gets 3/10, so this movie gets a 5/10 in my book.

[–] rdetjen 16 years ago

The movie was pretty good and had me on the edge of my seat. I never once suspected the father though I did suspect the police officer as well as the realtor and the neighbor. But the thing that really bugged me, was I can't figure out the HOW it's possible. I have worked it over in my mind and yeah, some of the things he could have done but things like the doll that Amy gave her, she did that while Amy was there. Please. There were other things that I thought just didn't seem right that he could have done it. I think the movie would have been better with a different bad guy, but the split personality thing was too much. I was even suspected demons, but not the Dad because it didn't fit.

[–] Ayababi 16 years ago

who was amy? the little girl?

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[–] FurfacePhoto 16 years ago

What I think they were trying to tell/show us when Emily "crushed" Amy's doll's face, it was Emily's split personality, which is revealed at the end by the two headed drawing.

There were other clues that showed it also, such as the writing on the shower curtain, when DeNiro says to Emily, "It's in your handwriting."

So to me, it seems as if those were instances where it was Emily's split personality doing the bad stuff, which she didn't realize that she did, and then there were the bad things that DeNiro's split personality did as "Charlie".

Just a thought.

[–] fauxcarnival 16 years ago

I totally agree with the OP. It was too obvious, I guessed that Charlie was David. But this would have been one of the greatest movies ever if there were another plot twist. 2 twists...