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ok I just got done watching the movie and I am completely lost

So was the Lemmo driver actually the personality of the big fat dude sitting with the judge the whole time. and was everything at this lodge taking place in the past?

Now ... did the kid do all the killings as they tried to let on at the end... or did he just help? And if he did.. how did he clean up all the bodies towards the end? or did the Personality of the fat guy do it..

I'm lost

heh

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Everything that you saw on that screen was in his mind, the battle within it, and all his personalities. The men who were in the room speaking with him were the REAL world trying to help him, but as you could see from the end, the child was the true killer (personality) and he got away, hence they did not cure him, only helped that personality kill the others, which left the evil personality to stay.

Hope that helps, I seen it in the theaters so I am going by memory from then, its not fresh in my mind.

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the limo driver along with all the other characters in the movie were the personalities of the fat guy. the guy was left at a motel by his mother when he was a little kid.. while he was there he developed all these multiple personalities.. the fat guy killed some people as one of the personalities and was going to jail because of it, and his doctors were trying to convince the judge that he had multiple personalities. they gave him medicine or something to make the personalities clash. the hotel thing was all in his mind.. it took place at a hotel because thats where his mother left him when he was a little kid. when all the personalities meet, they kill eachother off.. the doctors told him that the personality that made him kill the people in real life had to be killed in his mind. he thought he killed the killer when he killed the guy who was pretending to be a cop, but it turned out that the kid was the personality that made him kill the people in the first place, so when the kid was the only one left, the fat guy became the killer kid again and strangled his doctor.. hope that explains it.

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No it wasnt in the past. It was a representation of the battle going on in this guys mind so it was going on in real-time throughout the film. He was being administered a treatment which made all his personalities face eachother in one place and they begine whiping eachother out.

I don't kno how the kid disposes of the bodies... it's all in someone's mind so we can just assume they dissapear into nothingness!

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That was a really good movie. It's twisted and messes with your head but I like it...it's definitely not the weirdest movie I've seen though, that award goes to Mulholland Drive. That movie f***s with your mind :cry:

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The fat guy/patient under examination is the only "real" thing. It is his "kid" personality that once committed a bunch of murders.

The vast majority of the movie is simply made up of the battles of his multiple personalities, albeit likely within a setting comparable to that in which he did his own murders in "kid" personality once upon a time. He didn't commit murder literally as a child--it was the childlike part of himself that did such things.

If you watch the movie in-depth, or repeatedly, there's a lot more to be picked up upon. For example: The "original" true personality is locked up in the freezer once he "died". Another guy moved in as it was convenient, and he thereafter just "started checking in people as they came" as it was the easiest thing to do, symbolically adding to more personalities. The immature/kid personality is the one that committed murders in real life and is ultimately the one that would appear to survive.

You never see the murders that the fat guy committed in real life. 99% of the movie is supposed to be an internal personality struggle, though it's the Cusack character through which most things are seen as the guy tries to make sense of things and do what's right/wanted, ultimately reverting to the child "I hate ######", etc. thing regardless in the end.

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