Maybe I missed the point but, it didn't really make a whole lot of sense by the end. Any ideas?
2007-10-20 06:24:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
IMHO :)
THis was an excellent movie that deserves several viewings to be fully appreciated.
The entire movie was taking place inside the mind of Ashley Judd's character.
The motel room was a metaphor for the inside of her head.
The dillusional boyfriend represents her 'insanity'.
The ex-boyfriend (Harry Connick) represents her 'conflict'
The Dr. Sweet represents her 'sanity'.
Notice that none of the characters speak to the Harry Connick character EXCEPT ashley's character? That's because she's the only one who sees him.
The phone ringing at the begining was her re-living the moment she found out about her son, 10 years before. The concept of the movie is we get to watch her slowly lose her sanity as she suffers from her delusions. Oh, and the 'girlfriend' represents her 'devil's advocate'. Also, the way she looked beaten down was the way she saw herself. As for the feeling of the 'bugs' being everywhere, that's because it's the number one symptom of pcycosis and thus the story included it as the metaphor for her paranoias. She kept hearing the phone ring and then that paranoia turned into the feeling of bugs being everywhere. Enter her insanity (the new boyfriend) who represents 'where' the bugs come from and the planting, and then confirmation of her paranoid delusions. Then, at the end, when her 'insanity' wipes out her 'sanity' (new boyfriend kills Dr. Sweet) she totally slips into her psycosis where nothing is real, everything is delusion. And the only way she can get rid of her paranoia (and the pain of losing her son) is to get rid of the 'bugs'. The only way to get rid of the bugs is to burn everything in the room. To destroy her mind. So she sets the fire, which is the metaphor of her completely going mad. At the end, she doesn't die but simply slips into her own pychosis, never to return normal again, like real-life paranoid delusionists. This was a real thinker of a movie and not a movie about bugs at all, which most people thought they were going to see a movie about bugs and thus were confused and disappointed. Watch it again and you might find yourself saying it's one of the best movies you've ever seen. I know I did...lol Sorry for the information overload though, I hope things make a little more sense now :-)
2007-10-20 07:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, to try and explain this movie (which I hated), she had a weak mind already because of her son being kidnapped and the overwhelming guilt she felt because it happened in her presence. Well, you have Ms. Weak mind meet Mr. Schizophrenia and he was able to convience her about the bugs. He was paranoid (another sign of schizophrenia) about people coming after him and having things implanted in his body....typical signs. Sadly, I know too much about this because my aunt, who was already weak minded because of the death of her baby 20 years ago, lost another son about 5 years ago and she literally snapped. Now there isn't just one husband, there are 2 or 3, and people are after her, and her son (my cousin) who died in the car wreck, isn't really dead, he is in the war in Iraq. Hope I shed a little light on why the movie ended in a double suicide. The mind is a very scary thing...
2007-10-20 13:34:56 · answer #2 · answered by Corona 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The whole movie doesn't make sense. I laughed just about the whole way through it! "I'm the queen bug!!!" Don't try to think about it too much. I think it was meant to be.....strange
2007-10-20 14:33:41 · answer #3 · answered by mattsbaby125 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋