Attention, spoiler at the end of "Deadly Illusions"!
In "Deadly Illusions" (since last week on Netflix) the bestselling author Mary ("Sex and the City" star Kristin Davis) suffering from a writer's block hires the nanny Grace (Greer Grammer), who is supposed to take care of her twins soyou have more time to write again.Mary's imagination inspires the perfectly appearing Grace - with far -reaching consequences.
In the end, the events overturn - including a shocking twist.After Mary's best friend Elaine (Shanola Hampton) was apparently brutally murdered with scissors from Mary's budget and the writer herself is suspected by the police, she finally finds out that Grace has developed a split personality called Margaret as a child who helped her with thishas to cope with the abuse by their parents.
However, Margaret is by no means as heart -hearted as Grace.So she not only tries to destroy Mary's happy marriage to Tom (Dermot Mulroney), but finally even kill Tom (it is also implied that she already has Elaine on his conscience).Ultimately, Mary can overwhelm her, whereupon we see after a time jump from one year that Mary has a happy life with her family again and completed her new book manuscript (and dedicated to the deceased Elaine).
But the film does not end yet.Instead, "Deadly Illusions" comes up with a mysterious last scene that has a potential shocker ready...
The last scene of "Deadly Illusions"
At the very end of the thriller, Mary visits a joyful grace in a psychiatric institution.In the last settings we see how a woman in Mary's clothing leaves the facility again.But is it really Mary himself?In contrast, several points speak - above all, the existence and the design of the last pictures.
If we are honest, it would simply be unspectacular if we were only dealing with Mary here.After all, you wouldn't have had to show the whole thing, but could have ended the film at the latest when the camera drives out of the room where she plays with Grace.
The figure, which at the end of Mary's outfit, is deliberately not shown close from the front.Instead, we only see her from behind and then in a front view only from further away - while she is covered with a cloth and face with sunglasses:
But why should Mary suddenly mumble, while she did not consider it necessary on the way there.In addition, the filmmakers would actually have no reason to show them so unrecognizable and accompanied by subtly ominous music if it were really Mary (except, of course, to provide wild speculation among the audience).
So it is obvious that Grace (or rather Margaret) killed Mary and finally put on her outfit to escape from the clinic undetected.
Another shocking theory
However, another scenario would also be conceivable, but it is no less shocking than the Grace theory.In the end, the woman could actually be Mary (after all, Grace would probably have had a hard time killing her in her room without anyone noticing it).However, her presentation then also allows Mary that it was that Elaine stabbed, since the woman, who was seen in front of Elaine's apartment at the time, was wearing exactly the same clothing (including headscarf and sunglasses).
A statement by Mary to Elaine earlier in the film earlier: "You don't know me when I write.I become another person."
Why Mary would have committed the deed in this case would be unclear.However, the film makes it quite clear that it is not free from psychological problems.
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The meta theory of "Deadly Illusions"
But speaking out of writing: Even the theory that the main act does not depict the reality at all, but rather we are dealing with the exaggerated action of Mary's new thriller novel is a possible reading.Accordingly, she would have used people from her environment as figures, but their deeds more or less invented.Only at the very end (after the time jump) would we see the actual reality again in which Elaine is also dead and Grace is sitting in an institution, but this may have other reasons.
That would also explain better why Mary still visits her muse Grace after the supposedly traumatic experiences, especially since it can obviously move quite freely and without supervision within the facility, even though she has committed a murder (albeit with her other personality).However, this in turn explains less the ambiguous recent settings.
Fakt ist, dass das Ende von „Deadly Illusions" und seine Inszenierung bewusst offen gehalten werden uns so mehrere Interpretationsmöglichkeiten zulassen – auch wenn wir selbst die erstgenannte Grace-Theorie als wahrscheinlichste Erklärung favorisieren.
