Can someone please explain it to me?
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Last night I stayed up late. Extremely late for me, til 11:30 pm, watching the movie “Mr. Brooks.” Keep in mind I got up that morning, for the day, at 3:30 am. The movie was a good diversion as I have a lot on my mind lately and I really did find all of it compelling to watch. But I swear I could not figure out the end.
My friend Tonya told me it was really good and the twist at the end was crazy, wild and really interesting. So as I watched it I was trying to figure out what the twist was ahead of time. Because I like to do that.
Okay I’m just going to tell you now, I’m going to spoil it. I’ve got to talk about the end and you’re going to have to have leave. I will give you a chance to stop now. I’m not going to leave a bunch of white space so you have to scroll down to hear about the end.
I feel I have given those who don’t want to hear the end ample time to leave. We all know my posts are very text-rich; how do you like that as a diplomatic way of saying rambling and lengthy? So to the movie purists of the world I say, Go, run! Save yourself! I’m going to blow Mr. Brooks wide open.
Okay, if you’re still here you’re going to find out why I’m confused. Basically Mr. Brooks is a psychopathic killer masquerading as the lovable, successful, rich guy next door. The last person you would guess was a maniacal serial killer.
So he’s got a wife and a daughter and an alter ego who no one sees but Mr. Brooks. That guy’s name is Marshall and he is played by William Hurt. Marshall is the side of Mr. Brooks who eggs him on to kill because Marshall likes the rush. Mr. Brooks is trying to stop, but occasionally allows Marshall to push him into “one last killing.”
At the end, it looks like Mr. Brooks’ daughter killed him with a pair of scissors directly into his neck. The suggestion is that finally, the killings by Mr. Brooks will stop, since he’s been killed himself.
But, wait for it. That was a dream. At least the part where he was killed by his daughter with a pair of scissors to the jugular. We are absolutely clear about that because he’s lying in bed with his wife shaking him awake, saying “Wake up, you were dreaming, Earl.” Yeah, Mr. Brooks’ actual first name is Earl. That didn’t ring true to me, but whatever, that’s not the point here.
Cut to black, roll the end music and credits.
What.
The.
F?
Now before the ending I had been trying to figure out what this big twist was.
I was pretty sure it was that all of the people in Mr. Brooks intimate life were multiple personalities of Mr. Brooks himself. I thought his wife, his daughter (who apparently killed someone at college and then beat feet home to Dad) and Marshall were all parts of Mr. Brooks. And that somehow, at the end, Mr. Brooks would walk into an empty bedroom to say goodnight to his daughter, but no one would be there.
Thereby proving it’s just Mr. Brooks talking to these figments of his own imagination.
Negative.
Then I had to watch the last part of the movie, where he wakes up from the dream with his wife, thinking maybe the twist is that Mr. Brooks, played by Kevin Costner, is really Marshall, who was played by William Hurt. I thought, since the lighting was really dim in the movie that the close up on Earl’s face would reveal that it was William Hurt in his pajamas lying in bed with his wife.
Providing this crazy twist at the end.
Negative.
The bloody, fecking twist was that it was a dream? That’s what everyone was so excited about? This constitutes stellar movie making? That was it?
(Holds head in hands) I’m disappointed to say the least.
I actually dreamt, all night long, that I was trying to call Tonya to have her explain the Big Twist at the end of the movie. I dreamt that Mr. Brooks drowned in water or something like that, at the end and that I had to keep re-playing it with the slow frame on the DVD to really understand it. Even that was disappointing in my dream, since obviously it made no sense.
Can anyone explain to me what the twist was?
Anyone?
