It was sort of ok, I guess, not very good but not too bad either, but I didn’t like the ending at all. The title refers to where she lives, I think, and it starts when an old woman named Hillary dies. It appears like she fell down the stairs, but the police have to ask around and so a detective (Giovanni Ribisi) knocks on Abigail’s door (Selma Blair) because she’s the front-door neighbour. She’s forced to open the door, but is very uncomfortable and says that she never goes out and never sees anyone.
A couple rents poor Hillary’s apartment, and very soon she witnesses a fight between them. He beats her, and Abigail helps her, lets her inside her house. Charlie is a violent man but she says that she loves him and what could she do without him, she’d be alone in the world… Abigail is affected because her father was a violent man too. So Abigail helps Lillian (Amy Smart), thinking that she’s making a friend, but we see that they’re actually a couple of con-artists, it’s all a scam to steal all her money - she’s very rich. They are working with some help, to know how to get to her: her only friend in the world, the only person that she trusts and that knows who she really is, Ray (Beau Bridges). When the police ask him some questions about Hillary, he complains to Charlie that he should have made it look like an accident, and Lillian seems shocked because she didn’t know about any murder. Ray tries to call it off now that the police got involved, but Charlie disagrees: he kills him instead. Still, Lillian stays with Charlie and they move on with their plan: Lillian asks for Abigail’s help, enters her apartment, then Charlie enters too and they fight and Lillian shoots him, and thinking he won’t stop until she’s dead, Abigail ‘saves her’ by stabbing him several times until he’s dead. Lillian is shocked, but thinks that her only way out is to take the money and disappear, but then Abigail looks at Charlie’s body and sees Ray’s wallet, and then the fake blood and the blanks in the gun; she now knows it was all a scam, so she quickly transfers all her money on another account, and then she calls the journalists to tell them that Justine Waters is at the bank. Apparently Justine (meaning Abigail) disappeared 17 years ago, when something happened, I’m not sure if she simply ran away or if she killed her violent father, or what, I don’t remember.
Anyway, the jounalists now think that Lillian is Justine and Abigail can walk free. The detective sees her and probably knows everything by now, and he lets her go , and she’s finally free and the world is her oyster, or something, which was rather unsatisfying….
I mean, the whole time she was terrified of stepping foot outside her door, two meters outside and she was already feeling sick with terror, 17 years hiding from her past (of which we don’t have a full, clear story, only hints here and there) and then all of a sudden she feels free to travel the world! It makes no sense at all. If she was only frightened of being recognized as Justine, why so terrified of being one meter outside her door, still in her apartment building’s last floor? And if she was scared of the world, how come she’s no more? And how can she be so sure that it’s all over? What if Lillian convinces them that she’s not Justine? She’d have to reveal that she was a thief (maybe trying to hide that she was also a murderer’s accomplice), but she might want to do it, depends of what being Justine entails…
No,I didn’t like the ending.
ITA columbus circle
Nessun commento:
Posta un commento