From: thssapk@iitmax.iit.edu (([<{_/}>]))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: basic instinct ending **spoiler**
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:00:32 GMT
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Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug18.162105.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au>
ecbjkokegei@economics.adelaide.edu.au writes:
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>I cant believe how dumb some people are!
>When MD is reading the end of SS's Book I clearly read something about
>how the cop ran up the stairs to the 3rd floor to find his partner dead.
>Since this actually happens(the building is a 3 story), obviosly SS is either
>the killer or a very very good psycic. Think about it.

Alright!!!  I was waiting for someone to bring up the 'Sharon Stone's
character is a psychic' theory!  In fact, this outlandish theory
is the only one that can support all the events in the movie! 8)

Sure the partner's death was predicted in the book.  But how did she
know that Michael Douglas would walk in right when that page containing
the partner's death was being printed out?  How did she know he would
read that exact phrase (remeber, he looked at the page for 30 seconds, at
most)? How did she know that he would just keep it in his subconcious, even
while riding with his partner?  How did she know the partner would take
him for that witness?  How did she know that the partner would not let
his best freind go into the building, becuase of a stupid regulation,
and even though the partner drove Douglas all the way to the building
anyway?  Finally, and most importantly, how did she know
that Douglas would realize the danger his partner was in at THAT EXACT
INSTANT that he realized in her book, not a SECOND earlier or later?
What is she, psychic? 8)

Hell, why not?  It's not like the movie would make any less sense if
she was!  

>I was disapointed by the fact that they had to blatently reveal this fact
>in the final scene, when to anyone actually watching would have known SS was
>the killer. But even this doesn't appear to have helped. some dumb idiots
>couldn't even accept this. Perhaps for really dumb people the movie shouldn't
>have ended so cryptically (sarcasm), but instead have a banner accross the
>cinema saying 'SHARON STONE WAS THE KILLER'.
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Haven't you ever dropped something so it rolled under your bed before? 8)

This movie tried hard to show that beyond the shadow of a doubt, BOTH
women killed the partner seperately. 8) There's plenty of evidence to
convict both of them, but by picking either woman, you still have a lot
of mental abberations, loony actions, and deep dark secrets left
by the other person.

You think it is blatantly obvious that Stone was the killer. 
You're right.  Unfortunately it's also blatantly obvious
that the psychiatrist did the killing. 8)  That's why, 
after leaving the dollar theater where I saw this dreck,
I just didn't care.  

Later!!!

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