Its nagged me since my girlfriend and I saw this in the cinema. We thought her agent character just got weirder and weirder as the movie went on and just was so out of place. We thought it seemed like she was a figment of his imagination brought on by his sickness. Anyone else see that? We just watched again and it seems like it even more now.
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Hard to say. But her over looking the cliff at his life at the end seemed like he was letting go of that persona. My Girlfriend actually thinks it's Kevin Costner that is the imaginary character in Heard's head.
If you like something, don't forget to really oversell it so it can disappoint everyone else.
You too are both way over thinking this movie. We saw Heards character meet with the director of the CIA at the start so we know shes real. And Costners character bewt the crap out of the 4 boys who tried to rape his daughter when she wasnt around.
shareExactly! She was a real character, if rather unlikely CIA boss. Luc Besson and McG having a Quentin Tarantino urge.
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I believe by "you two" he meant dude and his girl.
shareWhen I heard that Costner's character was going to be 'hallucinating', I watched the film and thought that some of the characters would be hallucinations.
Amber Heard was real because of the character introduction at CIA HQ, but the African family were a potential hallucination/allegory for Costner's familial relationships.
But then it turned out the hallucinations were more like crippling vertigo and pain than actual hallucinations.
I wasn't expecting Fight Club, but maybe A Beautiful Mind style of reveal.
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Yep. The moment it was explained that hallucinations would be a symptom, I was expecting a plot twist that never came. Remember, he had a brain tumor and the cancer spread to his lungs. However, a brain tumor was not necessary for the plot at all. I was expecting that his hallucinations began with his tumor and the miracle drug was all in his head.
I'd hoped that the spy chick's CIA scene/backstory was either all in his head; or she was real, he met her once briefly, then the rest of her appearances were his imagination.
But the twist never came, of course. Almost every scene would have made since except for a portion where she kills the wolf. At first the wolf looks at Kevin Costner like he's talking to an imaginary person, and even the fact that she wants him to pull the trigger as if she can't do it herself is telling. But then the wolf looks straight at her and she kills him.
It would have made a decent twist considering how "spy fiction" she was.
Nope, she was real; we saw her in many scenes being alone or talking to other people.
now, if you remove those scenes and change the climax and ending a bit, you'd come up with an interesting psycological thriller twist.