The film is adapted from the 1962 novel by the suspenseful reasoning master Patricia Highsmith (Highsmith Patricia). The hero played by Considine moves to the suburban town where Stile is located and begins to spy on her. Speedman plays Stile's dumped ex-boyfriend, who finds things getting more complicated as he plots revenge against Stile.
The owl heralds the death of witnessing people. In the film, a man who is used to sleeping with his eyes half-open witnesses the bizarre and reasonable death of a group of people he knows or loves. The owl refers to this man, who is friendly, timid, and sentimental, with a sad shadow on his face.
Judging from the interpersonal relationships shown in the film, the director mainly tries to reveal the distortion of love in some women and the sadness that people can never understand each other, and more importantly, the despair of love. The two heroines abandoned their husbands and boyfriends inexplicably and resolutely, indicating the fickleness of women and the unreliability of love. One of the heroines who abandoned her boyfriend fell in love with the newly divorced hero in a chance encounter. , when she was rejected and committed suicide, her refusal to others in her view of love is just as terrifying and unexpected in her love for women, while the other heroine who divorced the hero is deliberately trying to Frame your ex-husband, which reflects the character of another selfish woman. After breaking up and abandoning the other party, she still tries to control the other party. At the end of the film, all but the men are dead, of their own twisted and crazy so-called love, a love that makes people shudder and never understand the truth of it. If there are such women or men around you, please cherish your life and stay away from them, otherwise their twisted souls will turn you into the owl man in the film---constantly witnessing tragedies and causing endless trouble for yourself
