IN RANDOM VIEWS of a city-bred and a promdi.

I saw it sometime 2 weeks ago… Hide and Seek

Summary:

Dr. David
Callaway, a psychologist and a father tries to help his daughter Emily deal with
the trauma of her mother’s death by moving to the countryside. With very few
children in their new neighborhood, Emily creates an imaginary friend named
Charlie. Unfortunately, this imaginary
friend turns out not to be make-believe who caused the death of the people visiting
the house. At the end of the movie, this
imaginary friend turns out to be her own father whom the story suggests to be
suffering from split personality disorder. Emily soon finds out that her father
killed her own mother after he caught her cheating on him with another man.

My Reaction:

I
doubt if there is really mental disorder involved because if there is such - it
was purely clandestine. Dr. Callaway’s
mental disorder started abruptly- right after he saw his wife cheating on
him.  Split personality doesn’t happen over night,
with only a premise that the person saw his wife cheating.   Cuckoldry
may be depressing but not enough reason that it can translate to madness. The title Hide
and Seek might not only apply to Emily playing the so-called game with
her imaginary friend. The director and
screenwriter may also have the objective of playing hide and seek with the
audience of the film. It could be that the seeking lies
on the hands of the audience - to judge for themselves if it was for real that
Dr. Callaway is mentally ill or the director & screenwriter are
just playing a game with us… that is, hiding Dr. Callaway’s fraudulent act of insanity to plead not guilty if caught.

Nahhhhhhh.  I’d go for the latter.