Title: Secret Window
DIRECTOR: David Koepp
CHARACTER:
Mort Rainey - plays successful writer Mort Rainey, who is suffering from writer's block and has retreated to an isolated lakeside cabin.
Amy Rainey– the wife of Mort
John Shooter – a farmer from
Charles Dutton – a police man or an investigator hired by Mort to make Jon Shooter leave Mort alone
Ted Milner – boyfriend of his ex- wife
SYNOPSIS
The movie is a thriller psychological film starring Johnny Depp as Mort Rainey. Mort is a writer just coming off of troublesome divorce with his ex-wife, Amy, finds himself stalked at his isolated lake house cabin by a psychotic stranger, John Shooter, who claims Mort’s stole his story idea. John Shooter demands to change just the ending of the story.
The story begins when Mort saw his wife in a motel with another man.
Mort is sleeping on his favorite sofa. He is in the midst of a painful divorce and everything about the breakup has turned messy and unpleasant. It has sapped his energy and siphoned away his creativity, leaving him with a monumental case of writer's block that renders him incapable of even stringing a simple sentence together.
While Mrs. Garvey was cleaning his house she saw papers that have a written story on it and she thought that it was own by Mort. Afterwards, Mort saw it on the top of the table and makes him realized that it might be one of his stories. When he checked on the compilation of his writings, he discovered that he is the one who wrote it.
A day passed, he and Mr. Shooter talk. Mr. Shooter still insists that it was his story and Mort Rainey stole it. Mr. Shooter wants some prove that it was Mort’s story. Then they agreed that if Mort can provide the magazine that includes the Secret Window on it, then Mr. Shooter will go back to
While Mort digs around for the magazine which published the story in question years ago, things begin to happen around Shooter. Mort's dog dies and his house was burnt, after it, he is so screwed by Mr. Shooter and called his friend (Ken Karsch) to protect and caught the man who he think did this all. People begin to die, including his friend and the Mr.Greenleaf who he thinks that saw his conversation with Mr. Shooter. Another burden for him was, his divorce proceedings with Amy continue to get uglier. After what happened, Mort is still willing to give the magazine to Mr. Shooter. When the magazine was finally on his hands, the pages that contain the Secret Window was cut out.
At his house, he talked to himself told him that there is no real Mr. Shooter, he is the one who killed the hazard to his plans. That time Mort was so confused. Then he realized that he is the one who create Mr. Shooter. After what happen, Mort Rainey has gone, and the man that lives on his body was Mr. John Shooter. It seems that, Mr. Shooter was created for the reason of finishing the story and putting an end on it.
After a while, Amy goes to the house of Mort to ask him for his signature on their divorce papers. She was shocked in what she saw. Mort turned out to be the man that he blamed for everything that happened.
Forced into a mind-bending game of cat and mouse, Rainey discovers that he has more cunningness and gritty determination than he ever imagined. In the end, he realizes that elusive Shooter may know him better than he knows himself.
COMMENTARIES:
A title suggests itself that a person may another window. Secret window represents a man with multiple personalities which is hidden to him. Person with multiple personalities have a psychological problem.
Psychological problem Mort suffering is a cause of his traumatic experience that creates a window of his new character. This character makes all things that he cannot do when he is Mort in the form of John Shooter.
His psychological problem starts when he cannot overcome knowing his ex-wife with other guy. When the time his new character killed his ex-wife and guy, he become normal again. This being simple Mort not knowing Shooter is he and it remain secret that he also kill his ex-wife and Ted.
The story suggests that “Some window should never be opened….”
