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Guess That Movie: Alternate Movie Description Edition!

Jilted spinster uses a pretty young girl to extract her vengeance on men in general, and upon our hero in particular. But his act of kindness to an escaped convict helps him in the end.
oft filmed as well, I'll let some others weigh in before I pounce on this.
 
As in the book, the story in this movie is told with a first person narration.

If you pay close attention, the movie is about a psychotic milquetoast
who experiences hallucinations and lives in a delusional world
in which he is a serial killer.

If you can't pay close attention and are incapable of interpreting nuances,
like say for example you're a film critic,
then this movie is about a serial killer.

I'm impressed that the book was translated this well into film.
 

Doc4

Stumpy in cold weather
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If you can't pay close attention and are incapable of interpreting nuances,
like say for example you're a film critic ...

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As in the book, the story in this movie is told with a first person narration.

If you pay close attention, the movie is about a psychotic milquetoast
who experiences hallucinations and lives in a delusional world
in which he is a serial killer.

If you can't pay close attention and are incapable of interpreting nuances,
like say for example you're a film critic,
then this movie is about a serial killer.

I'm impressed that the book was translated this well into film.

Hint: Stars the actor who is not ERIC BANA
 
LOL . . . The Prestige?

No.

The first murder seems plausible.
A chance encounter with a random victim,
no witnesses, no evidence to point to the murderer.

As the movie progresses,
the murderer is leaving evidence everywhere
but nobody is reacting to it properly.
Something is wrong with the story.

Towards the end of the movie,
when an ATM instructs him to feed it a cat,
you realize that he's hallucinating.
If you consider just exactly how much
he may have been hallucinating prior to this,
and then if you allow that all of his violent acts were delusions,
then the whole story of the movie seems plausible.
 

Doc4

Stumpy in cold weather
Staff member
No.

The first murder seems plausible.
A chance encounter with a random victim,
no witnesses, no evidence to point to the murderer.

As the movie progresses,
the murderer is leaving evidence everywhere
but nobody is reacting to it properly.
Something is wrong with the story.

Towards the end of the movie,
when an ATM instructs him to feed it a cat,
you realize that he's hallucinating.
If you consider just exactly how much
he may have been hallucinating prior to this,
and then if you allow that all of his violent acts were delusions,
then the whole story of the movie seems plausible.

the first rule about this film is that we don't talk about this film.
 
I'm surprised this hasn't been guessed yet, relatively recent movie that did rather well at the box office. A far superior book for what it tries to do, launched a spate of unreliable narrator novels.
 
Well, heading in for the weekend and no guesses? The leading lady was one of my favorite Bond bad-girls, she appeared during the Brosnan era of Bond. The leading man is a multiple oscar winner, just not for acting.
 

Doc4

Stumpy in cold weather
Staff member
Family reunites for it's Christmas get-together. Nobody gets along. They all have knives, because "it's current year".
 
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