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Questions about the beginning. (SPOILERS)

posted 13 years ago by bigkabuto
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I really enjoyed this movie, and David Hyde Pierce's performance was excellent. I really only knew him from Frasier and this was such a different role, just awesome. I got a few questions about the beginning of the movie.

John is at Warwick's house and he talks to him, he speaks about Julia. The viewer at this point believes Julia is real, but she's not. Julia is Warwick himself.

A: Did Warwick see through John's lies right away at that point cause he knows himself that Julia is not real?

B: Or does he actually really believe Julia is very real, and that this indeed could be a friend of 'her' ?

I'm probably going with A, because as soon as John enters the house and Warwick leaves him by himself for a bit, he had plenty of time to drug the winebottles. He was only waiting to see what John would do, playing along being 'scared' after John tells him to shut up and telling him he will kill him unless he keeps his calm and doesn't bother him.

We then see Warwick kinda instigating John when he says 'you're bleeding' and cleans the ground, instead of helping john. Clearly not taking John serious at all. Then we see John taking a rest on a chair, picking up a picture of Warwick where he's having his arm around nothing but air. Warwick again is cleaning the ground in a very instigating way and looking at John and soon the drugged wine kicks in for John.

I absolutely loved those parts, the viewer couldn't have known that Warwick was actually a psycho in the beginning of the movie. But i DID feel there was something off about his behaviour, the way he called the airport and 'Julia' . But that part with the picture and then John realizing there's something wrong with the guy was just awesome.

Either way, it could also be B. It really can be that he truly believes Julia is real, therefore also believed John being a good friend of hers. But at the same time, still drugged the wines and what not. Cause in the end.....he was nothing but a psychopath.

Which do you think it is?

[–] ThatGuamGuy 13 years ago

I'm pretty sure that Warwick doesn't know that Julia doesn't exist, but is immediately suspicious of John anyway [most likely, though not explicitly, because Warwick is a cop and thus is quite aware of John being a fugitive]. The same way that the neighbor actually is a Jehovah's witness, but immediately realizes that John isn't, and tests him (with the cross thing) and he fails the test, Warwick was testing John with the stuff about Julia's job, and the stuff about his missing luggage.