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They knew exactly what they wanted, a huge pile of SJW PC garbage with a plot weird enough to get people talking and interested. The movie doesn't need to be good, that wasn't it's purpose, it was meant to be propaganda like so many other recent movies. It was a man hating movie about white male privilege and the bad treatment of women, minorities, and gays. The purpose of the movie is to make you think men are the scum of the earth and you should feel bad if you live a normal life.
And people wonder why this won oscars. Why do you think? Hollywood doesn't care if a movie is good, they care about shaping your mind. The oscars have become nothing more than a propaganda tool.
It is Windows XP. Windows 95, 98, and ME had a distinct boxy gray task bar. Windows XP was available from 2001-2008 and I have read that some laptops were still being sold with XP through 2010. Also, there is no reason this has to be a new computer. Lots of people keep computers for a long time and it is not uncommon to reinstall Windows to "refresh" the computer. If she is supposed to be 16 in 2018, this could have been a brand new computer with Windows XP considering how young she is when they create her account.
Windows XP was the most used operating system all the way up until it was surpassed by Windows 7 in 2011 and then it slowly tapered off over the next few years. I was still using XP in 2017.
From what I have found, it was a theater poster for Macbeth made by Wiktor Sadowski in 1984 or 85.
Here's a few links:
https://www.omnibusgallery.com/original+vintage+poster/12469
https://polishpostershop.com/posters/wiktor-sadowski/macbeth-verdi.html
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/132363676521267767/
After seeing the horrible ratings and reviews, I went into this with very low expectations, but I actually enjoyed it. It was clearly never meant to be a masterpiece and that was aparent before the movie was released. Yes, it had some dumb scenes that could have been cut or shortened, but to be honest, overall, I enjoyed watching this more than A Game Of Shadows from 2011.
I think this is the most underrated movie of all time. It has a lot of cringy dialogue and certainly isn't a great movie, but I enjoyed it. It currently has a 2.4 on IMDB which puts it in position 22 on the list of the lowest rated movies of all time. I think it should be around the 5.5 to 6 range.
When Jim is in the back of the cop car turning himself in on the radio, John pulls up next to the side of the car and you can hear the loud engine revving, but the cops don't even notice he is there, because he is not, Jim is the one that shoots the cops.
I think this is what the movie was originally supposed to be, but when they were filming it, they couldn't decide whether to make it a psychological thriller or just a straight action, survival movie with a real serial killer. I think most complex movies that people have to think about to understand go through this when being made because they know that if the audience does not understand the movie, everyone will just say it is a bad movie that doesn't make sense and it will not make money. Unfortunately this happens with a lot of good movies that you have to think about and I think the same happened with this movie. In general, most people do not want to have to think to understand a movie and that is why these type of movies do poorly at first when released and then gain a cult following.
I think this is why it is so hard for people to come to an agreement with what is really happening in the movie because, there are some scenes that don't make sense with this theory and some that don't make sense with other theories. The movie is not consistent because they didn't have good direction when filming. They need to add big action scenes with explosions, like when he shot down the helicopter, because they are trying to sell to a broad, dumb audience that just wants action and at the same time they are film the psychological thriller where that scene may not fit well.
In the end, the people providing money probably get to make the decisions and they don't want to risk losing money on a confusing movie or something the general audience won't understand or like, so they change it to turn it into an action movie and end up making the movie worse. This is what happened to Ultraviolet (2006) and many other movies.
Nash trusted Jim and believed him, but she paid for it with her life because Jim was the serial killer the whole time. Jim was the one driving the tractor trailer with Nash tied to the back. The cops wouldn't shoot him because then she would die. Jim liked Nash and wanted to save her, but the serial killer in his head, John, wanted to kill her. His two mentalities had a discussion with eachother in his head, this is where Jim got in the truck. The real Jim was in the driver seat the whole time, but the serial killer mentality was in control. In order to talk to his other mentality, he thought about the cops bringing Jim to the scene to talk him out of it, but that was just in his head, it never really happened. John won the argument in his head and killed Nash. Jim was the one actually arrested for the murder (because John doesn't really exist) and put in the back of the transport bus. We just saw John in the bus because that was the mentality that he was currently portraying, that is who he saw himself as at the time. Nash's death was the last straw that led Jim to realize that he needs to get rid of the serial killer in his head and stop the killings, so he decided to confront John and end it.
When Jim goes to the gas station to use a phone, John just randomly drives out of the gas station from inside the closed garage. This makes no sense that he would be at the exact location Jim went to and waiting for him in the closed garage. This makes no sense, not because it is a bad movie, but because this never happened, this was just John showing up in Jim's head. John always seems to just show up out of nowhere like he has super powers because again, he is not real, Jim is imagining these things.
When Jim is in the diner and the owner goes into the back room, John shows up. Jim and John have a long conversation and argument, but the owner never comes out or even acknowledges anyone else is there, because there is not, no conversation took place.
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I have not analyzed the film as much as you have, but I agree with most of what you have written. Throughout almost the entire movie, I thought Jim and John were the same person and that Jim was the killer the whole time.
I think the movie is trying to say that just because someone looks or acts like a certain type of person, they could be anyone and you should not trust them. They may be a normal person, but they could have some underlying traits that they are holding back and something one day could make them snap and change or they could just have multiple personalities. I think he was a normal person up until he fell asleep and almost crashed head on into the truck. This near death experience had a powerful affect on his mentality and for some reason brought out the serial killer that was always tucked away in his head (John).
The both had the knife and no identification because they are the same person. John wanted Jim and only Jim to kill him because John is in Jim's head which means that Jim is the only one that can kill him. There is no person to literally kill, Jim is just fighting with the serial killer mentality in his head.
No idea. I loved Melancholia and I was trying to find similar movies which is how I came across this, but unfortunately I found this movie very boring and fairly pointless.