Question about Primal Fear ****BIG FAT SPOILERS IN HERE SO BRING YOUR INTEGRA IF YOU COME IN****

[pulse8]

I watched this movie for the first time the other night. It was a good movie and Edward Norton was as good as everyone says he was.

Although, from what I gathered from the ending is that Roy made up Aaron in order to get away with killing Linda and the priest. There's a big chunk of info that's missing from the story, though. Why did he want to kill the priest and Linda? He said that she was a whore and deserved it, but is that because of what the priest made him do with her? If that's the case (and he really made up the Aaron persona) then how could someone with a personality strong enough to attack a lawyer in court allow a priest to do such things to him?

OR

Did he just go along with it and murder them because he's just a twisted psycho and the whole thing was a way for him to kill them and get away with it?

 

[scauffiel]

I'm going with the second one. Even though I dislike Richard Gere, Norton more than made up for it in that movie.

S.

 

[vi edit]

I'm gonna have to watch it again this weekend to remember. My guess is the second - flat out psycho, although intelligent psycho with a way of getting away with it.

 

[Descartes]

My guess is the second - flat out psycho, although intelligent psycho with a way of getting away with it.

It seems as though his way of getting away with it was created after he was caught. I believe this to be true by reading some of the final dialogue:

Gere: "You are good. You are really, really good."
Norton: "Yeeeeeeeeah, but I did get caught, didn't I?"

So it seems his "getting caught" was not a prelude to his plan of getting away with it, but in fact an ad-hoc plan post-arrest.

Good movie though...