";s:4:"text";s:4286:" And he has been undermined by Memory Distrust Syndrome. Fearing the same thing that happened five years earlier was repeating itself, Ellen killed the girl before she could talk.Curious no one has noticed a couple of interesting (imo) factsMy own opinion is that Evan has something similar to early onset Alzheimer’s, where he apparently spaces out for an undetermined period, he loses track of time and doesn’t remember or mashes up different experiences into a jumbled mess.Drinking excessively makes his problem worse. Why because he could only tell the truth as he interprets and remembers it? He knows he was involved with her but there’s no conclusive evidence. Promise. Was it Evan? Did I hear you right Malloy? I think they were together in the woods or on that hill.Personally I think Goes into the police station to confess about the Anna because she’s got away and he’s got previous. Ellen leaves.
And when Joyce (played by Odeya Rush), a cheerleader from a nearby high school goes missing, it is Evan that slowly but surely becomes the primary suspect. Seeing Evan give Joyce and friends a ride, and suspecting that Evan is connecting with her, she follows him when he is supposed to be getting Zelda from camp. , did she have the affair and convince Evan that it was him ? That he probably did kill Joyce but because of that memory lapse when he was late picking his daughter.The philosophical ramblings about truth and interpretations of truth are straw men frameworks used to let the audience believe what their preferred truth to be.Malloy works on evidence and logic, and if he believes his evidence tells him Joyce’s death was an accident, the audience would have to assume his interpretation of the evidence is faulty, which would be a stretch for a detective who appears to be more than competent at his job.Great comments. He is the Spinning Man and he spun this story from start to finish. This movie had me scratching my head . Or else it is a terrible movie.I think Evan had an affair with Joyce .He restrained her and she panick and ran and fell off the cliff . Because this movie isn’t going to help us. Right? Am I mentally ill, or have been? Matthew Aldrich has done a masterful job with the screenplay of George Harrar’s book. I think he did not kill Joice, voluntarily, but he chased her until she fell off the cliff. Why? She died. From Malloy’s perspective, the truth is knowable through the inspection of the evidence. Here is my support in as best chronological order as I remember:Ellen has been “calling him” and he’s never answered. Because it is so confoundingly good. Which could be Ross. Evan was found guilty, based on the court of public opinion, including his wife. This little theory right here is why you guys keep coming back to THiNC. But then he’s hit with his legal bill and decides to break with his own morals; he gives Clive a C-minus (the minus a petulant little “fuck you” to the bribe that Larry is acquiescing to) to accept the $3,000 that was probably left there by Clive but has never been acknowledged (itself a paradox of corruption; how can the money be returned if it has no clear owner). She seemed very fixated on him and could have felt competition from the other girl.My theory is Joyce committed suicide. But Evan argues, that Truth is.