I swear I will NEVER understand this movie NEVER EVER!I have watched this movie dozens of times now. Not only because I like it, but I'm also trying to make sense of it. I'm not getting that far, but it's not hindering my enjoyability level while watching the film.
It starts out extremely slow and BORING, with Patricia A. and Bill P. as a boring couple that are in a horrible relationship. They seem like they're on the verge of divorce, they are so cold and tense toward each other. It's almost as if they were absolute strangers living together. Patricia seemed as though she was in a state of fear. Bill seemed dominant and forceful.
It was hard for me to see him in a role like that because he's loveable and naive in all of his other films. I think he proved himself as an actor with this movie because he can play all kinds of roles instead of being steryotyped into one genre of film.
They start getting video tapes of themself in their house. Someone is taping them when their in their house, doing the things that people usually do when they're home. People do a lot of things when no one is watching them, that they'd never be able to explain. Things that don't make complete sense, yet we all do stuff like this all of the time. They recieve a few tapes, then they go to a party where they meet a mysterious guy. He's spooky, he claims to be in their house while he's standing right in front of them. This was not the part that confused me, but it was still quite odd, because he has Bill call his house and he answers the phone. Then the last tape comes. It's of Bill killing Patricia, coincidently she turns up missing, so they don't have any evidence to say he didn't murder her. He gets convicted for her murder.
This is when I get lost, insanely lost, infact I still haven't been found. Bill is sitting in a jail cell, he starts having really bad headaches. He somehow transforms (?) himself into a teenage mechanic. I can't explain this and it throws the entire movie off for me. I just don't get it, how does he "transform"? if he really did "transform" HOW???? He goes home as the mechanic, I guess, because he's gone out of the jail cell and the young teenage boy is there. I don't understand this, if you do great, please try to explain it to me.
As the mechanic he meets a blonde that is patricia playing another role. Although she was killed in the movie, and we never truely know what happened to her. It seems that she just wanted a way out of her sh*t-hole marriage so she faked her death on video so she could then get away. We find that she is married to a drug-like boss and is once again unhappy. She starts an affair with the mechanic. Then we find out that she is a porn star-slut/whore.
At the end he goes a bit crazy, kills Patricia's drug-boss husband and somehow transforms back to Bill P. we see him with the spooky guy from the party again. He then gets in his car, drives away and the movie ends on this note.
There was quite a bit of sex and nudity in this movie. It was like Eyes Wide Shut with its incoherents. For some reason I loved this movie. The music fit the movie it was dark,strangely- cryptic and seemed to spiral in the same warped way that the movie did. The oddity of this film added to it, it was meant to be different and it was. After all different is good. Conformity and normal are boring. Why do people insist on being just like everyone else?
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