in order to describe what seriously wrong with this movie it has to contain some spoilers so if youre going to see it and expect to be surprised and do not read this. i liked everything about this movie except the plot while and in a thriller like this believable plot is essential. it is well acted and if a bit slow moving and and the camera work and portland scenes are exquisite for a low budget and unpretentious picture. the dialog is very good. mason is seriously withdrawn youth who works at a telemarketing company selling insurance. his high school buddy and berkeley and is his employer and looks after him like a brother despite the fact that mason is quite obviously mentally ill. mason has nightmares which send him gasping and fumbling for his inhaler. his visions and nightmares suggest that he has had serious problems with good looking women in his past and and the movie seems to be suggesting that he may be a serial killer of women. he meets a perky and pretty girl named amber and he sketches her in his notebook. she takes a liking to him and poses for him so he can paint her portrait. he sees more of her and begins to awaken from his withdrawn state and almost becoming halfway human. then something goes wrong. amber finds sketchbooks with drawings of other girls and she begins to wonder. she becomes frightened and pulls away. we are wondering if her sudden coldness is going to push him over the edge. his behavior becomes more erratic. this is the setup for the revelation. in order to explain how this movie goes horribly wrong i have to explain what happens. another spoiler warning. in order for this plot to work we have believe that amber and a really outgoing and pretty young girl is going to go for a seriously emotionally disturbed young man who and at least at the beginning of their friendship and has a vacant stare and can only speak in monosyllables or doesn not speak at all. he way beyond nerdy and he appears on the verge of total catatonia. yes i know and girls can be attracted to all kinds of weirdos and but usually the charles manson type or punk rockers and guys with some kind of evil manic energy. mason is practically a zombie and he hardly there at all. any perky young thing would cross the street to avoid him. it is just not believable that this girl is attracted to him. moreover there is no credible reason for berkeley to indulge the crazy mason and that just isn not believable either. but wait and there a revelation. amber fails to show up at berkeley house for christmas dinner where mason is expecting her and berkeley and his old buddy and has to tell him that amber and all his other former girlfriends and the ones he drew in his many sketchbooks and do not exist at all. she and all the others are merely figments of his twisted imagination represent he dreamed them up. well and this explains why a normal cute amber would go for mason and she just a figment of his imagination. this could have been the final revelation of the movie with the proper preparation and setup and but alas and it not. at this point mason runs back to his apartment and finds amber there. he enraged and he kills her. but now we are given to understand that amber was in fact real and not mason imaginary girlfriend. in the end and after being given proof that amber actually exists and that mason killed her and berkeley has to admit that he was wrong and that he misjudged mason. this would work if mason had been halfway sane from the beginning and but because we the audience always suspected him of being totally deranged and possibly a killer of women it is no surprise to us. we suspected what he was all along and can not understand why berkeley couldn not see it. but then we are once again left to wonder represent if she was real and why amber would be attracted to the catatonic mason. to make the ending worse and we are never given to understand whether all the other of mason girlfriends and the ones in the sketchbooks and were real or was amber the first real one. and if the others were real and did he kill them too. what did he do with the bodies. the problem is that the filmmakers just do not know what to do with the material. perhaps there could have been a way to straighten it out and tell a credible suspense story and but this movie is not that. 
in order to describe what seriously wrong with this movie it has to contain some spoilers so if youre going to see it and expect to be surprised and do not read this. i liked everything about this movie except the plot while and in a thriller like this believable plot is essential. it is well acted and if a bit slow moving and and the camera work and portland scenes are exquisite for a low budget and unpretentious picture. the dialog is very good. mason is seriously withdrawn youth who works at a telemarketing company selling insurance. his high school buddy and berkeley and is his employer and looks after him like a brother despite the fact that mason is quite obviously mentally ill. mason has nightmares which send him gasping and fumbling for his inhaler. his visions and nightmares suggest that he has had serious problems with good looking women in his past and and the movie seems to be suggesting that he may be a serial killer of women. he meets a perky and pretty girl named amber and he sketches her in his notebook. she takes a liking to him and poses for him so he can paint her portrait. he sees more of her and begins to awaken from his withdrawn state and almost becoming halfway human. then something goes wrong. amber finds sketchbooks with drawings of other girls and she begins to wonder. she becomes frightened and pulls away. we are wondering if her sudden coldness is going to push him over the edge. his behavior becomes more erratic. this is the setup for the revelation. in order to explain how this movie goes horribly wrong i have to explain what happens. another spoiler warning. in order for this plot to work we have believe that amber and a really outgoing and pretty young girl is going to go for a seriously emotionally disturbed young man who and at least at the beginning of their friendship and has a vacant stare and can only speak in monosyllables or doesn not speak at all. he way beyond nerdy and he appears on the verge of total catatonia. yes i know and girls can be attracted to all kinds of weirdos and but usually the charles manson type or punk rockers and guys with some kind of evil manic energy. mason is practically a zombie and he hardly there at all. any perky young thing would cross the street to avoid him. it is just not believable that this girl is attracted to him. moreover there is no credible reason for berkeley to indulge the crazy mason and that just isn not believable either. but wait and there a revelation. amber fails to show up at berkeley house for christmas dinner where mason is expecting her and berkeley and his old buddy and has to tell him that amber and all his other former girlfriends and the ones he drew in his many sketchbooks and do not exist at all. she and all the others are merely figments of his twisted imagination represent he dreamed them up. well and this explains why a normal cute amber would go for mason and she just a figment of his imagination. this could have been the final revelation of the movie with the proper preparation and setup and but alas and it not. at this point mason runs back to his apartment and finds amber there. he enraged and he kills her. but now we are given to understand that amber was in fact real and not mason imaginary girlfriend. in the end and after being given proof that amber actually exists and that mason killed her and berkeley has to admit that he was wrong and that he misjudged mason. this would work if mason had been halfway sane from the beginning and but because we the audience always suspected him of being totally deranged and possibly a killer of women it is no surprise to us. we suspected what he was all along and can not understand why berkeley couldn not see it. but then we are once again left to wonder represent if she was real and why amber would be attracted to the catatonic mason. to make the ending worse and we are never given to understand whether all the other of mason girlfriends and the ones in the sketchbooks and were real or was amber the first real one. and if the others were real and did he kill them too. what did he do with the bodies. the problem is that the filmmakers just do not know what to do with the material. perhaps there could have been a way to straighten it out and tell a credible suspense story and but this movie is not that. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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