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The acting in this movie is really good.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This movie is about a writer unexpectedly accused of plagiarism, after his traumatic and ill-resolved divorce. What could be just an intellectual setback quickly turns into a police case as the writer feels more threatened. We're facing a light thriller with some tension and a good script. But it takes a while to get to the most interesting moments and the first half will seem monotonous, with the conflict between the two central characters slowly becoming more dense. The end, with a good twist, will make up for that. There is a surreptitious link between the importance of film's end and the discussion between the main characters about the importance of the ending in a story.Johny Depp uses an intentional "I woke up now and I'm hung over" look to make his character more sympathetic to us. His character have much psychological depth and he manages to put it on screen. John Turturro is his antagonist but, at the same time, he completes Depp's character, insofar as the film relies on the rivalry between them. Turturro made an excellent deep southern accent and used a grim, sinister appearance to look more threatening than dangerous. The remaining cast has more secondary roles.

The fact that "Secret Window" is based on a Stephen King novella means that it should succeed. However, we have all seen cases where this is not the case. Thankfully, after the first scene of the film, where Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) opens the door to find John Shooter (John Turturro) drawling his iconic "you stole mah story", one can tell that this one was made correctly.For a basic plot summary, "Secret Window" sees Rainey, a once-successful writer now struggling with the bottle and loneliness after divorcing wife Amy (Maria Bello), accused of plagiarism by Mr. Shooter, who goes on to torment the people involved in Rainey's life as Rainey himself tries to set the record straight.At its simplest common denominator, this is a great film because King is an incredible storyteller. This is such a compelling & mysterious tale that one cannot helped but be sucked into the many different angles of the rich plot line. Kudos must be given to director David Koepp for making sure all those elements are portrayed as well on the screen as they were on the printed page.The acting is also top-notch in this film, with Rainey & Bello having great chemistry as a divorcing couple trying to figure out what the heck is happening to each other. Turturro, however, almost completely steals the show with his "Shooter" performance, creating one of the creepier characters ever to appear on film.Overall, then, "Secret Window" is an all-time great movie for fans of mystery & psychological thrillers. From the intriguing beginning to the astounding ending, this movie is one that will have you fully invested in the entire experience.

This is the best horror movie he has ever done. I have to say, I felt sick in the stomach when the dog was killed. I wish he didn't have to involve the dog but unfortunately it was the ex wife's dog. The whole idea is he's meant to kill everybody when he doesn't even realise it! It does remind you of 'Carrie' in a way but this is a man who wants revenge for his ex wife we are talking about! I really thought the whole setting of the storyline was brilliant and twisted because it uses your brain in a non headache way. I find some horror films can wreck your head, this one didn't. In fact, I felt like I was concentrating and thinking of what's gonna happen next!Well done Johnny Depp, you were awesome!

The theme is simple and quite common with Stephen King. He has often used it. A writer becomes suddenly due to some tension in his own life haunted by a doppelganger, his deeper self that he creates like a character in a story and the writer's life becomes a story, a perfect story. The doppelganger does all the writer wants to do, wants him to do for him. It's difficult to tell more without spoiling the story.You will recognize Stephen King's artful suspense when everything looks exactly like it is supposed to look and yet is just a surface that has nothing to do with reality but reality is invisible because it is all inside and when the iceberg tips out of the water it is all so well done no one can see this tip of the iceberg, let alone the iceberg.Johnny Depp is perfect for the job because he can be both extremely disrupted, corrugated or just insane and at the same time, or just a second later, perfectly sane, charming and adorable. He just needs to change glasses or change hats or change his smile because he always smiles from grinning to grimacing via all kinds of lovable smirks. All extremes seem natural to this man who can just shift from one to the other in less than one nanosecond. But altogether and in the end what does this short story turned long feature tell us about the world and life? Not much really except that writers are always living in a crazy world of their own and no one can understand that. They are unbearable in real life. They can have some nice moments but most of the time they live in their phantasms. And you cannot enter their minds. Luckily you can't and don't tell me you would like to. All that leads to dirty divorce procedures and eventually suits. Before the divorce all that leads to having lovers and intimate friends, making the writer jealous, in a way to both escape him and provoke him out of his writer's mind.At the very same time when you are dealing with a real writer who has a genial doppelganger, both genie and genius, the police will be helpless for at least some long, long time, because the police with all their crime scene investigation and their forensics cannot sort out the mind of an author who is not a serial killer and thus cannot be profiled. In fact his crimes are the only way he has to be reborn in a new life and there will be no series in that bloody episode.You should like it if you let yourself go into the story as if it were true, real, life incarnate. And Johnny Depp should be able to make you believe you have entered a completely true and real world. The phantasms are only the cherry on top of the pie and the ice cream for it to be à la mode.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU