what your memories and memory-related-emotions mean, and what the guilt really is. Guy Pearce and Pierce Brosnan give a wonderful show, they are perfect in those roles. Minnie Driver acts so good that you forget, that she is an actress, playing mother and wife wanting her life back. Everything is very psychological, no flat, unbelievable characters here... This movie is springing a web that pulls you in and makes you forget that it is a movie, a really realy rare feat today. and my god the ending.... so not cliche, so damn good you will talk about this movie every time someone speaks the word "truth" aloud. I would give it 9/10, but its proposterous how low people grade it so I one-up it cos it deserves a better grade. I think that is a price when you make something original and deep, oh, maybe some fans of the book were dissapointed? I didnt read it. And some people may not understand it. What do you think? :

director brilliance was knowing to just get out of the way. Jaimie Kennedy was unrecognizable and good in his role. And though his character was run of the mill, Clark Gregg hit it out of the park. It was nice to see a yet another movie "about something". See it when you are in the mood for that.The brilliance of this film lies in the subtle and small.

We have no complaints. It was well directed and the script written to leave folks wondering right until the very end. A problem we have with many of today's thrillers is that they're overwritten for effect, or overacted - this is neither. It's evenly spaced, and moves well, and it's not all that far-fetched, so therefore, draws the viewer in. If you've seen North by Northwest, or Rear Window, while the plots are totally different, Spinning Man moves at a similar pace. Our family is glad we watched it and have no regrets.

Driver.Take a non-existent chair and enjoy the labyrinth of Guy Pearce's characterization. It's enjoyable and worth the price of admission.

book that was subsequently adapted into a screenplay. Brosnan identified "an eliptical sensibility" to the script. That is an apt way of describing the sense of how the film starts with a mundane incident by a lake and a missing person, then builds a story in a non-linear fashion as the philosophical issues start to supersede the crime drama.A point made in the bonus track by the screenwriter was how the character of the professor was "self-destructive." That observation is revealing about the interpretation of the professor by actor Guy Pierce, who played the role with great confidence and no apparent intimidation felt from the aggressive the police detective. It was as if the actor was playing the opposite of what the character is really like, almost like a psychological defense mechanism.Indeed, there were effective details in the film that offered psychological insights into the characters. The professor and his life were forced to leave Evanston following his inappropriate conduct with a young woman. Yet the professor has still kept a memento of a book a matches with the young woman's handwriting on the booklet, setting up a rendezvous. In the same vein, the detective relates to the professor how members of Alcoholics Anonymous carry a coin with them as a reminder not to take a drink. In two crucial moments of the film, the detective is scene handling such a coin.Pearce described the film as "an explanation of human behavior and the fragility of one's identity." The film was successful in integrating philosophical discourse with a standard film thriller. One of the provocative ideas explored in the interaction between the professor and the detective was the thin line between "truth" and the individual's subjective "interpretation of truth." By the end of the film, the detective has taken the professor to school with special insights into his own flawed character. The main narrative posits the question of what happened to the young woman in the incident at Hillside Lake. But the deeper focus is on a provocative human reality of memory, self-identity, and, the word that does not seem to be in the professor's vocabulary: denial.