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Decent Movie
Max Handler - wrote on 05/11/08
The Secret Window is an interesting movie that is fun to watch despite its lack of thrill and suspense. The movie is about a mid-aged writer, Mort Rainey, who believes that he is being stalked and harassed by a crazy fan. The crazy fan calls himself Shooter and attempts to scare Mort into changing the ending of his book, which he believes Mort stole from him. The ending of the movie is clever and helps the viewer to understand a lot about the movie when you find out that the main character, Mort, has schizophrenia and “is” Shooter.
As far as plots go, Secret Window has a decent one. The story carries itself well and keeps the viewer engaged and thinking. Some moments of the film are semi-scary, however the writer could have done a much better job “scaring” the audience with more suspense. Also, the plot lacks an in depth understanding of the characters. Throughout the movie the viewer learns very little about the characters involved in the story and their past experiences.
The Secret Window also uses many flashbacks that attempt to give the viewer a quick and confusing view of past events. The entire movie is based off these flashbacks and a single event of the past. The viewer slowly understands more and more about the plot of the story as the flashbacks are shown. These flashbacks are an interesting aspect to the movie and add to the plot and the tone of the movie.
All in all, the Secret Window is an interesting movie that keeps the audience engaged in the plot. The movie lacks the suspense and horror of other suspense movie but contains a thrilling storyline and plot. The Secret Window is fun to watch right up until the end and continuously keeps its audience engaged in the storyline. The movies twist ending is perhaps the most entertaining part of the movie for the viewer and wraps up the movie in a rather unique way.
