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Were they really accidents?

posted 9 years ago by jakkfrost
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When you think about it, except for a few glimpses of reality, most of the movie is shown from Jerry's perspective, where everything's hunky-dory. But the reveal that reality is completely different makes one have to rethink a lot of scenes.

So the question is, when he killed Fiona, did it really go down as depicted, did he really just accidentally trip and land on her with the knife?

Then with Lisa, did he really just accidentally throw her on a bad spot on the bed, or is that just what he saw, and did he in fact slam her head there on purpose?

That second one's a bit of a stretch, since things are going downhill by then, but it still makes me wonder how much of what we saw happened as depicted and how much was just how Jerry saw it.

Tommy... how's the peeping?

[–] adam-greenwood 9 years ago

It's a classic "Unreliable Narrator" scenario - We can't be sure what is or isn't real for most of the movie so it's open to our interpretation :)

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[–] ImInTheater 9 years ago

Good question, I think Jerry did it on purpose but more out of impulse to protect himself. Them getting in the particular situations that caused him to do it, were the only accidents ;p

[–] leiastarkiller 9 years ago

Like the cat said, why'd he bring the knife?

[–] Todd_B 9 years ago

Yup. Why'd he bring the knife for both Fiona and Lisa?

[–] Naeblis5 9 years ago

He only brought the knife for Lisa when he wanted to kill her.

Once she turned out really nice he decided against that and put it away.

He only killed her because he was out of options. She had seen too much.

[–] BronnFlakes 9 years ago

I think the whole thing with Fiona is pretty 50/50. You could argue that it was accidental or on purpose and both arguments could sound totally reasonable.

Lisa's death was definitely not planned, though. After Jerry found out how sweet she was and that she was really into him, he abandoned his plan to harm her and actively tried to keep her away from finding out about him. It was only when she found out that he had some dark secrets that he knew he had to do something. It's probably debatable that he was going to kill her after throwing her on the bed. I mean, actually killing her was probably inevitable since she found out too much, but it felt like he was simply going to try to keep her confined or something until he could figure out what to do with her? It just felt like the accidental neck snap is what prompted him to definitely take her out then and there to both protect himself and put her out of her misery.

The third kill, yeah, there's no argument on that one!