From the appearance of a new tenant imitating the plot of Jack the Ripper to the emergence of the real murderer at the end, there are certain details to set the director's picture when the murder happened. Hitch was used. A way of beautification not found in Kirk's film. Shooting from a first-person perspective and slowing down the camera to deliberately create a sense of suspense. It is slightly contrived.
Maybe after watching this film, you will wonder what Ellen means at the end plus the previous Did the conversation with the tenant before the arrest reveal the possibility of a second person committing the crime "Ellen is a schizophrenic" plus Ellen's last sentence "Timmy died seven years ago"? It's the wonderful part of the plot at the end. On the one hand, it tells the viewer that the series of murders that Ellen made are actually her living in her own fantasy world and turning what happened in this world into a reality that people can see. This subconscious criminal psychology has turned into a real murder, and she clearly knows that her child is stillborn, so the final result is not the truth we want
Let's not talk about who the real murderer is and how many perpetrators are there, just say that the role played by philosophical Alfred that the director wants to describe through this film is the incomprehensible investigation process of a man's wife and a mentally disabled daughter The bad luck and the Ellen played by Hope Davis is also a middle-aged woman with a complete family. The husband leaves early and returns late, and he has nothing to say to his man. He fantasizes about a tenant and his deceased child tenant. In her mind is a man with a purse that looks very much like the Ripper. She suspects that this man is the murderer, so she often probes the behavior and thoughts of this man, but the man with the purse is just her illusion. It is a man who fantasizes to cover up his sins. When the plot at the end pulls towards the tenant's reappearance and becomes someone else's new tenant, combined with the narrative of what happened to Ellen before, the difficult delivery of the baby by caesarean section made her a schizophrenic and finally left a suspense. Ellen knew clearly The existence of hallucinations When Ellen carefully wants to probe the tenant, she is actually peeping at another self. She has a tenant in her heart. Maybe she is herself or someone else is unfamiliar with herself. Everyone is the same. You and I also have a tenant in my heart. What this suspense remake wants to tell us
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