Why did the guy die?

Ah k thanks.

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People here keep saying things like this:

"His death is then completely ignored throughout the rest of the movie."

lol The REST of the movie?? Why is this repeated so much here? There was 14 minutes of the movie left. He died at the END. They didn't even have time because of everything else going on to even realize he was gone. The critic died when the movie was nearly OVER.

I don't think these people have actually even watched the movie, I think ONE person said it, and then others just kept repeating it. If you SAW the movie, you'd know how ridiculous is the above quote. The movie is 1 hour, 49 minutes long, counting CREDITS, the critic dies at 1 hour and 28 minutes, the ending credits roll at 1 hour and 42 minutes LOL!

It was also a clever move by Mr Sham to make that critic look almost exactly like Richard Attenborough´s serial killer in 10 Rillington Place. That´s a major body blow we´re talking here; a thorough pre-emptive strike against any criticism (and by extention any sense or reason against which his handiwork would be held) that he must have known was gonna occur.


"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

It was also a slam against the critics he knew were about to pan "Lady".

"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."

Truer words were never spoken regarding critics.

Snoogans.

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Well, also keep in mind this was a real fairy tale, not the dumbed down version we've been fed by Disney all these years. In real fairy tales, death is a fact of life. It's often a trope--such as a metaphor for something happening in the world in which the story was originated.

I thought it was just M Night's indulging his view of critics! Also, it showed how comprehensively wrong he was - not at all genre savvy!