The psychological thriller "The Woman in the Window" is based on the book bestseller of the same name in 2018 by Daniel Mallort (pseudonym A.J. Finn). The film adaptation captivates with the finely built intricacies of the detective in the style of the story of an "unreliable storyteller." A not too pretty woman with obvious problems (depression, alcoholism, mental disorders) becomes a person involved in a crime (participant, victim, witness). But because of these very problems, those around her do not believe her. And she, being not quite in an adequate state, can hardly distinguish reality from fiction: You're a shrink? That's a twist! What is the meaning of the film
Such a character in Joe Wright's film, screenwriter Tracy Letts made a woman who "looms" in the window of her apartment. With a camera in her hands, Anna Fox watches what is happening opposite - at number 101, 121st Street. One day she sees how an unknown person stabs a woman with a kitchen knife at the neighbors' place. The police who arrived on her call are convinced that there was no murder, the landlady of the apartment is alive and well. Inspector Norelli is trying to prove to Anna that she came up with everything, because she has seen enough of Hitchcock's thrillers, takes psychotropic drugs and alcohol. He also makes a woman face the past, from which she stubbornly tries to escape.
Why is the main character spying on neighbors
Anna Fox's unusual hobby is associated with the peculiarities of her psyche. A lonely closed woman feels safe only when she perceives what is happening around her from her window. At the slightest contact with the outside world, she experiences anxiety, fears free space, and does not tolerate crowds of people. The only friend is a fluffy cat. The attributes of the pastime are a glass of wine, with which she can easily wash down the pills, and the "Windows to the courtyard" or "Bewitched" flashing on the TV screen. The recluse occasionally talks to someone on the phone. She is visited by a psychoanalyst who encourages the patient to observe someone else's life. The specialist regards voyeuristic inclinations as a positive sign in Anna's struggle with agoraphobia.
Murder seen - reality or hallucination of the main character
Anna knows the Russells, in whose house the tragedy took place. A notorious teenager Ethan once stopped by a neighbor's house to watch a DVD from her collection of films. With the boy's mother, they somehow got to talking over a glass of wine. Jane complained that she didn't know anyone here (they recently moved from Boston). Alistair Russell came to her doorstep with a strange question if someone from his household had visited Anna.
The woman has the impression that not all is well with them. On the Internet, she finds a note that Mr. Russell resigned from the company in which his assistant Pamela Nazin was killed the day before. From a conversation with Jane, she realizes that she is unhappy with the relationship in the family. Ethan gives her the impression of a child suffering from his father's despotism (she once saw him hit his son). Therefore, when Anna called 911, she was sure that Russell had stabbed his wife.
The ball of truth and lies is unwound when the killer is not Alistair, but the killed - not Jane. Hooded Man with Knife - 15-year-old demure Ethan, who killed his biological mother. Addict Katie Melli ran away from her husband in her eighth month of pregnancy. After two years of searching, the man found her in a brothel in Oregon, took the child and divorced.
Resenting that he was deprived of maternal care, the embittered guy took revenge on other women. In Boston, Ethan cracked down on his father's friend Pamela Nazin. After moving to New York, I saw my next victim in an unsociable neighbor from the house opposite.
Anna's final meeting with Ethan, as they play a deadly game of cat and mouse on a rain-drenched rooftop, restores the faith of those around (and the audience) in a woman's sanity. She manages not only to defeat the young villain, but also to overcome the panic attack from agoraphobia.
Who was the main character talking to all the time?
From the first frames of the film, one can hear a lonely woman talking to an invisible man. He takes care of her, gives advice not to take medicine with alcohol. This is the voice of her friend, guide and confidant, whom the viewer does not know until the very end. Who it is becomes clear when Little Police Officer tells Anna that she cannot talk to her family on the phone - her husband and daughter died in an accident nine months ago. In one of Anna's visions, it was shown that she was driving the crashed car.
Driven by a sense of guilt, unable to survive the bitterness of loss, the woman, with the help of self-isolation, hid from the family tragedy. And Ed's native voice was her way of survival. The past lets go when she leaves the house. Due to the fact that this time the voice does not answer her, the viewer gets the impression that she has overcome her phobias, fears and illness.
Anna Fox manages to escape from her own nightmare, only plunging into a stranger. The "woman in the window" gained confidence and the strength to move on after she proved she was right by reporting the murder at 101 121st Street to the police.
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