Thought it was very very beautifully filmed and edited, has a very 80's murder mystery feel to it, and the acting was pretty sublime. Only problem is I really don't understand the twist at the end there.. So I'd appreciate it if someone could explain to me.
shareShe killed her assistant then passed out, dreaming of Rachel McAdams coming back to murder her.
It's a DePalma hallmark. He had the "dream scare" sequence in "Carrie" and "Dressed to Kill," for example.
Also, the assistant had Isabell on camera leaving murder scene and told her (holding phone) "I only have to push this send button and it goes to cop" and then as Isabell strangles asst, asst's toes pushes "send" button (remember close up of toe?) Last part was a dream...as other poster says, that's a DePalma trademark.
shareSure.
But was it really sent (the video)?
It stands to reason that it is not. I mean, the police officer is still IN the building as he receives the messages / videos, but Isabel still has time enough to fall back to sleep?
Either;
- She did send it, the officer received it and there's a stupid plot hole to why she fell back to sleep and the officer didn't come back immediately.
- She dreamt the message sending and the twin sister coming back, so the officer won't come at all.
- She fell asleep, dreamt about the twin sister and the officer is still on his way or waiting for back-up to arrive.
I hate it when it gets confusing. Filmmakers think it's fun and artsy - but it's just stupid.
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Another confusing aspect was that the assistant's body looked like it had been there a while - she seemed to have that patchy "livor mortis" look (if you have a copy, have a look at her legs).
So I was thinking she'd killed her and this was some time later, and she was stil having dreams and going out of her head, while the body lay there. Maybe I just misunderstood (I have a big HD TV though so I don't think my eyes were deceiving me).
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I think you are right. She did look like she had been laying there awhile. So it could have been a dream that the message was sent.
shareThat's pretty much exactly right. Everything beginning with the funeral scene was a dream. There are numerous clues in that scene alone that it's part of the dream-Christine's dead and possible fictional sister shows up alive and mysteriously wearing the shoes from the fashion show, and the cop says that he hasn't yet had time to apologize. In the immediate prior scene, Isabelle is laughing about the cop's fumbling attempts at an apology. I expect Dani was killed right after the scene dissolved away from her and Isabelle to the funeral. It's a motif that's used throughout the film-twice earlier, Isabelle wakes up from what seems to have been a nightmare (Christine's murder, her own arrest) but which then turns out to have actually happened. The ending is the coup de grace of this approach. It's a peek inside the character's head-she's done all of these things on purpose, but inside she's freaking out that she's going to get caught. Hence, the final dream she has features all the ways her actions could get her nailed all happening at once, because she knows she cannot possibly get away with Dani's murder (which, in turn, would make her a suspect in the original killing once again). That's my take on the ending.
-There is no such word as "alot."
whole ending part was a dream.
1. why on earth would the inspector come to visit her in the middle of the night?
2. the body was lying there for a while, so if she had pressed 'send' then the cops would have arrested her by then.
3. why would the mobile phone ring? it was a throw away phone so who would have the number to call it? and why would she hide it in the same location as where the scarf was hidden?
she simply killed the assistant, and probably doesn't know where the phone is.
I actually think it’s all a dream from the point where Isabelle is lying in bed trying to sleep, with pills beside her. In the dream she gets a call from Christine to go to the office. When she gets there we still see the shaded pattern from the blinds in her bedroom, and this blind pattern is there scene after scene from then on....with few exceptions.
I think the ending where she finally wakes up to Dani’s corpse is probably symbolic rather than literal. It’s true that the corpse is in a latter stage of near-decay, so unless this is still a nightmare it’s obviously been there for days.