Spoilers Ahead
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Reflecting Skin
bloody-3 — 11 years ago(May 18, 2014 01:40 AM)
Spoilers Ahead
In this movie there is not one character that is likeable. In particular the main child Seth has the traits of a psychopath. He sees his friend being kidnapped by the car creeps and tell no one about it. He can relate to the corpse of a baby and has conversations with it. Later on the "vampire" woman gets into the same car of killers and he doesn't warn her.
I imagine it would be too late now but if they did make a sequel they could show how he grew up into a serial killer. -
Taravilyaion — 10 years ago(June 01, 2015 11:03 AM)
Have you even considered that he may have disliked/hated her because she was killing his brother assumingly because she was a "vampire"?
I don't believe she was a real vampire anyway.
She walked in the sun, and those 'serialkillers' could never have killer her if she really was one. I didn't see a wooden steak or her head chopped off.
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Gar nicht so bel, du kleine Schlampe. Man sieht sich immer zweimal, Kleine.
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MovieAlien — 10 years ago(October 17, 2015 09:39 AM)
I'd say he was both psychopathic and psychotic (for his delusions).
I perused some earlier posts and surprised that no one brought these points up:
Remember what Seth did to the frog at the beginning? What did his mother do to him with the cups of water? Seth's father had a vampire obsession, and Seth did as well. One sorta has to wonder whether his father was also a serial killer before the self-immolation.
Finally, there's the issue of dissociation, which is common with psychiatric disorders. The mentally ill person perceives everyone else as crazy/eccentric, while he she engages in either ghastly or abhorrent behavior as if it's an everyday norm. -
julie_robin2 — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 01:25 PM)
And don't forget that after seeing his father burn alive he stood there watching the flames, blowing at the embers on the wind and enjoying the spectacle. Hardly a normal reaction.
I prefer Imaginality to reality.