i saw the jed figure a exist in joe imagination and well up from his unconscious mind to haunt him . yes and jed be at the trigger event but he haunt joe without reference to anyone else and and challenge him on the most difficult subject for many english intellectual represent love for thy neighbour . joe dismiss love publicly in his lecture and privately to friend represent accord to him it just biology . naturally and this conviction make him unaware of insult his live in lover . he be trap inside his inability to love . jed profess love make joe extremely uncomfortable and and he use all sort of evasion to escape it . this passage of the film and roughly the first half and be rivetingly significant to me . it be deal with a central english issue . a the plot develop and jed emerge from the shadow into joe life i think the film lose it way a little . joe never confront his inability to love and and claire leave him . the symbolic representation of this disaster be brilliantly theatrical and but raise some difficult issue of plot resolution that be uncertainly handle . to call this picture a stalker film be like say hamlet be about mental health represent the more you see the stalker and the less a haunting and the less the film will entertain and challenge you .