It's not due out intil February, but they are agressively trying to sell this movie right now with serious saturation of the trailer, magazaine ads, and with 3-D movie lobby displays a full five months before hand. Meanwhile, it's based on a book. Now I haven't read the book, I haven't read the script, and I know NOTHING about this movie except that I have seen the trailer a dozen times already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdumGs1qoXM
And based on what I see just in the trailer, I want to make a prediction as to what this movie is REALLY about, and even how it will all end....
-- SPOILER --
.... I suspect that the Leonardo DiCaprio character is NOT really a US Marshall, and is instead one of the patients at the hospital. And that the severe delusion that he is a US Marshall is part of his sickness, and the Ben Kingsley character (the chief psychiatrist in charge of the mental hospital) is orchestrating this masquerade (the deception of letting DiCaprio believe he's a US Marshall) in order to help treat whatever is mentally wrong with the DiCaprio character. So the big surprise ending is going to be: you're just Crazy, Leo, and this nice doctor is merely trying to help you.
Just my guess. I could be wrong, but it's my guess.
So, anyone here read the book? Am I right?
I need to repeat that I am only making this guess based upon the trailer. And if I am correct, then that's a mighty sad statement as to the lack of originality of the film, and an equally sad statement as to its attempt to give us a killer "surprise" ending in the vein of The Sixth Sense and Psycho and The Stepford Wives and Soylent Green, etc.
But if I'm wrong ... meh ... the film doesn't appeal to me. (Seen one mysterious crime puzzle, seen 'em all).
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdumGs1qoXM
And based on what I see just in the trailer, I want to make a prediction as to what this movie is REALLY about, and even how it will all end....
-- SPOILER --
.... I suspect that the Leonardo DiCaprio character is NOT really a US Marshall, and is instead one of the patients at the hospital. And that the severe delusion that he is a US Marshall is part of his sickness, and the Ben Kingsley character (the chief psychiatrist in charge of the mental hospital) is orchestrating this masquerade (the deception of letting DiCaprio believe he's a US Marshall) in order to help treat whatever is mentally wrong with the DiCaprio character. So the big surprise ending is going to be: you're just Crazy, Leo, and this nice doctor is merely trying to help you.
Just my guess. I could be wrong, but it's my guess.
So, anyone here read the book? Am I right?
I need to repeat that I am only making this guess based upon the trailer. And if I am correct, then that's a mighty sad statement as to the lack of originality of the film, and an equally sad statement as to its attempt to give us a killer "surprise" ending in the vein of The Sixth Sense and Psycho and The Stepford Wives and Soylent Green, etc.
But if I'm wrong ... meh ... the film doesn't appeal to me. (Seen one mysterious crime puzzle, seen 'em all).
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