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Originally Posted by dull boy
Are y'all reading way too much into this movie or just confused by a slightly complicated plot? I thought it was pretty straight forward. He was a US Marshall. His wife drowned their children. He went crazy. Made up a fictional account of her dying and an arsonist to place his anger towards. The doctor was trying to make him realize who is was and what had happened. He did, but decided he didn't want to live with the truth, so he pretended to still be oblivious so they would labotomize him.
What's all this he really was an arsonist stuff? The scenes with water and fire? What are you saying is the significance?
I've heard a lot of people say this movie confused them. Poor attention spans/reasoning/sense.
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You're missing the very key Nazi theme here. These people weren't employed by the U.S government just to change the diaper's of crazy's. They were employed for being world renowned for torture and manipulation.
If he killed his wife in the lake after she killed his kids. how come he made up the arson laedis scenario? (shift the blame? fair enough but...) and in doing so, more importantly, how come he only ever mentions his wife... and never his kid's?
He was never a father?
The whole drowning was planted in his head through the "missing patient", she then gets into his head so much he later dreams of carrying the "missing patients" child to the lake. an image planted into his head. the only child in that dream is the 1 he see's in concentration camps from when he was a soldier, no 2 other kids, not his deceased wife. his mind is gradually being altered to accept a false truth
again people here are taking their own view and imposing it like other's are stupid for taking another angle which certain clues dictate.
You think you have all the answer's and the movie summed up to a T, when the Irony is you don't, you totally missed the point entirely.