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Nice movie there.

Without giving too much out, there was a USS article about an Asylum with ghosts and Icepick therapy.
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Agreed great movie.

Certainly gives some nice inspiration for Dominia and some lovely plot devices as well.
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I saw it yesterday. It was entertaining, but I felt somehow disappointed. After "The Departed", I expected more from a Scorsese/DiCaprio movie. Also, I felt that the plot twist wasn't particularly original, when you take into account other movies (I was going to mention one in particular, but it might be spoiler-y).

Anyway, it's not a waste of time, but I think it won't be awarded any Oscars :P

Oh, and for a moment, I thought I was going to see an adaptation of the first adventure from Bleak House :P
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was it a plot twist? and did he know in the end
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Well.... I was reading the plot on wikipedia. Too close to Basic Instintct 2 on some respects, not original there.
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I've got to say I enjoyed it. Not a bad actor in the bunch and I wasn't expect much but was pleasently surprised. Good stuff for gas lighting material.
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Nukdai wrote:was it a plot twist? and did he know in the end
And on a related note, did the doctors suspect he was shamming, and go through with the procedure anyway...?
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I'm only 3 years late to the party. Caught this one over the weekend. Very nicely done. Agreed that it oozed Dominia flavor. Went on a bit long toward the end. I didn't even consider that
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he was faking forgetting at the end to voluntarily be lobotomized because he couldn't live with his guilt, until my wife suggested it. Once she did, I agreed, and I felt dumb for not catching that.

My only other quibble: would he really be locked away as dangerously insane for what he did? under the circumstances, I think it was almost understandable. Certainly a temporary insanity plea would have worked. I wondered if that defense didn't exist back then, but wiki says it was actually quite popular in that time period.

I wish I hadn't seen the twist coming. I don't know if it was obvious, or if I was spoiled at some point and forgot about it. But there was some nice foreshadowing, like the "partner" fumbling with his gun, and the wife bleeding from her stomach in the dream...
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Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:I'm only 3 years late to the party. Caught this one over the weekend. Very nicely done. Agreed that it oozed Dominia flavor. Went on a bit long toward the end. I didn't even consider that
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he was faking forgetting at the end to voluntarily be lobotomized because he couldn't live with his guilt, until my wife suggested it. Once she did, I agreed, and I felt dumb for not catching that.

My only other quibble: would he really be locked away as dangerously insane for what he did? under the circumstances, I think it was almost understandable. Certainly a temporary insanity plea would have worked. I wondered if that defense didn't exist back then, but wiki says it was actually quite popular in that time period.

I wish I hadn't seen the twist coming. I don't know if it was obvious, or if I was spoiled at some point and forgot about it. But there was some nice foreshadowing, like the "partner" fumbling with his gun, and the wife bleeding from her stomach in the dream...
Well, it is nice to know I am not the only one "late to the party". Shutter was great, knew something was coming (but not to that extent).
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Didn't see the movie, but read the book, which was cool. Indeed, some atmosphere bits were quite cool.

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Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:My only other quibble: would he really be locked away as dangerously insane for what he did? under the circumstances, I think it was almost understandable. Certainly a temporary insanity plea would have worked. I wondered if that defense didn't exist back then, but wiki says it was actually quite popular in that time period.
I'm not sure if the character in question was locked away because
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he killed his wife when he found she'd drowned their children,
but because the horror of what happened that day drove him to imagine he was someone else, altogether. It's his delusion
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that he's a different federal agent trying to hunt his real identity down,
and the dangerous extremes to which he went while playing it out, not his prior crime, that got his committed.
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Ah, that makes sense, Roti...
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Read the book, too. The questions formulated by Roti get answered there, pretty much - because it's more of a Kafkaesque experience, than a coherent novel.

As in, you know...

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