This story is quite ingenious. It is difficult to explain it simply as murder or hallucinations. If you understand that the male protagonist is a manic mental patient, he kills rationally when taking lithium tablets, and hallucinations when not taking lithium tablets. Full film.
Moreover, the male protagonist should not only be understood as the most problematic character in the whole film. There are many characters in the film who are as sick as him. It can be understood as a commonality, a phenomenon. At critical moments, everyone All are bold enough to choose a murderous solution.
The female owner of Allen's rental is cruel enough to know that something abnormal happened in the house, so she redecorated it and continued to rent it casually. Don't think this is impossible, there are many foreshadowings in the film that can give answers, such as the male protagonist will decompose and dispose of the corpse (the female owner will not face a room of corpses), such as the last night of killing at Allen's residence, the whole The buildings are dark, and only the Ellen floor is lit (no one will come to save you if you scream).
Facing a neurotic client who blindly admits that he killed someone, but does not want to go to the police station to surrender himself, the smooth lawyer can only understand that the other party wants to ask him to help solve the problem, but he is not willing to face this problem. , so the gags got through (the lawyer's words were pushed very cleanly). Even if the police find him someday, he can shrug: people like him kill people? Of course only as a joke. What, I met Alan in London 10 days ago? I ate at XX restaurant 10 days ago. If you don't believe me, ask Monica.
The murder after a line about cats appeared on the ATM may be a hallucination. Because although there was a helicopter flying in the sky, the male protagonist never heard the siren of the police car again within the foot range of the male protagonist. Helicopters have been dispatched, and the police car should be frantically running to the scene of the explosion of the police car.
The film should be satirizing the state of life of the American Emperor Yuppie, who is devoted to profit and completely hollowed out his soul; he worked hard to pretend, but he was not struck by lightning, but turned into a thunder, and split the normal people around him.
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