Porter (Adrien Brody) is a daily newspaper reporter. The movie starts with him narrating the story like in an old noir.
His wife is a surgeon, they have two children, and he’s rather famous after the time he found a missing child (accidentally, he says). Still he’s unhappy , looks lost and empty.
He meets gorgeous Caroline who asks him to investigate her husband’s death. Simon Crowley was a film director. Caroline seduces Porter. She once goes to meet his wife with a bad excuse, so of course the smart doctor understands she was faking it.
His boss learns that he’s seeing Caroline and wants him to retrieve a video for him. When he doesn’t find it the old man sends men to beat him up and then to search the house. The little son and the nanny are injured and his wife takes the kids away. Furious about this, Porter tries to threaten the old man but doesn’t back down and threatens him back.
Up until now it was not bad at all, slowly escalating to keep the interest high. Unfortunately the last part was not as involving. Sadder, but still less involving.
Investigating some more, Porter finds the video, watches it and gives it to his boss. Now that the old man is calm and satisfied, he gives Porter a key found when searching Caroline’s apartment. Porter understands it all now: Simon was twisted, always playing sick stupid games on Caroline. The night he died he took Caroline to a building about to be destroyed in the morning, and when she refused to tell him her pony-story he locked both of them inside and then he swallowed the key. Mad with fear and desperation, she killed him and then opened him up to retrieve the key and escape. Simon taped the whole thing.
The pony-story was very very sad. When she was nine years old her stepdad abused her constantly, and when she asked for a pony so much like it was the only thing in the world she wanted, he finally gave her one but then he shot the poor animal right in front of the poor little girl, the monster. Her mother never contradicted him. :-/
ITA Manhattan night
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