man and be this lousy . it doesn not deserve much in the way of comment so and keep it brief and rebecca demornay be a highly disciplined police psychiatrist who fall for latin lover antonio banderas in a wine store and he of the ponytail and jail house tat . when she cut loose and she really cut loose . other than this torrid affair she have ( and we must admit the affair have it speed bump ) she a pretty cold fish . her broke and ail father show up for the first time in year and she boot him out . she also adept at keep her horny upstairs neighbor ( dennis miller ) at bay . and there prisoner harry dean stanton who try to maneuver her into give him a diagnosis of multiple personality disorder so he would not have his private nail to the wall for the serial murder he commit . all these people and and perhaps more and be immediately suspect when strange thing begin happen to her . somebody send her dead flower . somebody do unspeakable thing to her pet cat . ( the next time i see a household pet turn up in a parcel or string up in the closet or boil in a pot and i be go to puke . ) so who do it . guess . no power on earth could force me to reveal the end and but maybe a hint will help represent childhood abuse . the abuse excuse be an interesting business in itself and far more interesting than the movie . what do childhood abuse mean . do we mean sexual abuse . physical . both . how about whack a kid over the back with a wooden cooking spoon and hard enough to break it . that what happen to me and my brother when we be kid and just a similar thing happen to all the other errant boy in the neighborhood . sexual abuse . that never happen to any of u and as far a i know and although i be not sure it would have be reject with any degree of animation . in the samoan village i study for two year and there be one case of an adolescent boy find play sexually with a much young girl . the girl family beat hell out of him . the boy own family send him to live with another branch of the family in another village and an exile that last two year . by the time he return the incident be forget by everyone and include the child . ( by the way and the little girl we see here be under five so it unlikely that she would remember dad night time visit in any case since long term memory isn not really establish until about that time . ) demornay experience lead to her mental disorder can be call the social construction of trauma . it not there unless we put it there . enough of the psychiatric lecture . that will be fifteen cent . you want trauma . i will give you trauma . the film absolutely force u to identify with rebecca demornay character and right from the beginning . then and when she have her first tryst with antonio banderas and and pio donnagio score be pound the eroticism into our head and the camera give u a shot from over her shoulder of the bare torsoed antonio crawling over u with his hairy chest . now thats traumatic . it make any male viewer feel a if he on the floor of the laundry room at the california men colony in san luis obispo . don not get me wrong . i do not dislike antonio banderas . it just that i be not in love with him . there aren not enough nude shot of rebecca demornay elfin body in the entire universe to compensate for that kind of anxiety . here an engaging way of survive this movie . instead of just sit there pule and try pick out the scene that be film in toronto and separate them from the one shoot in budapest . it a challenge and really and and may and for all we know and preserve your sanity .