The first 10 minutes of the movie give us the plot, and the way how the movie is going to end. everything is in the details as the appearances of the characters or their names. shooter is a defense, it helps him to deal with his traumatic experience, his couple crisis. this new identity is created to release the tension from wich mort suffers. as w

The movie opens on a scene where mort rainey (johnny depp) catches his wife cheating on him in a motel with an other man. this is the turning point in his life, the event that destroyed his life and his mental health. the rest of the story follows our hero, 6 month later, living alone in a country house. alone and depressed, life become meaningless

As said in the previous arcticle they are phisycally opposed. in one hand we can see mort which has long and blonde ruffled hair, he is not well shaved and in the other hand shooter has short black hair and no beard. the writter is wearing a ripped dressing gown (house coat, robe de chambre), a shirt and glasses. his other personality wear a hat, a

The presence of the alter was in the movie suggested by a fourth character that was unknown : a blond woman, whose appearance was uncertain and who was following liz and pete ; who we believe is dr elliott transgender violent patient who leaves him worrisome voicemails. the movie suggests that they were the same character, which is why liz tries to

On this blog we are going to talk about the movie secret window by david koepp. as this blog is going to be an analisys of the movie spoilers are going to journey with us. so if you have not seen the movie don't read the following arcticles. let the spoil begin! this movie deals with a mental disorder wich is the center of the story, a way to fool

We are going to start with some informations about the movie to recontextualize the making of it. secret window is an adaptation of a stephen king's book from 1990 named secret window, secret garden. the director of the movie is david koepp wich is a good movie writer (jurassic park, mission : impossible , spiderman and others). in his movies he li

As we can see the camera is floating in the house and gives us an weird and strange feeling, it doens't feel real. and the director as many others that dealt with the split personality uses a mirror to represent the double. the miror shows us this extract shows us that mort wich is a writter is trying to write a new book. on the computer we can see

As we have seen earlier, a split identity often dictates that the movie will have a twist at its end. this scene represents the very moment when the mystery unfolds, it only takes a few seconds for the spectator to understand that he has been fooled. i wanted to show with this exemple that split personalities do not have gender limitation, and that

As seen before this first scene represents the turning point in our hero's life. the couple crisis is the key element of his depression and his future. the scene takes place in a cold snowy night. mort is talking to himself, as a voice over. it is shown as a normal thing. at first this seem to be a detail but when we continue the movie we can actua