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Spider. He remembers everything and nothing.
He likes to go into a picture that is hanging in this café he visits. In the picture, he and 2 of his friends say and do the most hilariously perverse things to one another. Then Spider takes nudey pics out of his pants and it's flippin' uproarious
Spider likes to put together jigsaw puzzles but instead of taking a break when he gets stuck, he freaks out and throws the puzzle all over the floor! Missus whatshername yells at him that he has to pick all the pieces back up and you know damn well he's not going to do what she says.
Spider gets completely hypnotized by the gasworks across the street from his house, he just stands there and he can't even move. His best friend has to come and literally drag him back into the house. I think he killed his mom that way but I wonder if he knows. He must because he can't move when he looks at the gasworks. Yet his mind is working just like that gasworks, automatic. I'm still so confused and I've scene this bloody movie 5 times.
He smokes like a total fiend, so much so that his hands are all yellow, he'll smoke at really inappropriate times, too, like when he's laying in bed. He writes and writes and I'm not convinced yet that he can speak coherently. It's all face and eyes. Mostly eyes.
His hair cut makes him look like a little kid when it's clean and when his mate breaks a huge mirror and tries to kill himself, Spider steals (he's an expert theif) and then turns in the piece of glass he's stolen. But he can hardly speak, so damaged.
And when he takes a bath, he lays on his side in the rust stained water, completely still, joyless, cold. Hard.
You just want to heal this man, at least I wanted to. Ralph Fiennes (Super Hot? And what does that mean this time around?) is spot on as this afflicted damaged schizophrenic suffering and dangerous man. I've seen everything Fiennes has ever done and for me, this is IT.
The Best. EVER.

This was a movie with character study, and that is something that I like a lot. Ralph Fiennes was a very believable schizophrenic.

The plot of the movie was decently involved (but not overwhelming).

Especially good points:

1. The characters were developed in a certain way to lead us to think one thing, but it later became clear that they were viewed through the lens of schizophrenia.

2. One woman played several characters, and she did a great job with all three of them. That was a testament to training and study!

3. The movie came together at the end in an "Aha!" sort of way. It is not one of those types of movies that would hve to be watched two or three times to put everything in place-- but not so pedestrian as to be boring.