Trap (2024)

Several of us have already talked about this in the shout box. But I just wanted to mention something that I found confusing.

Josh Hartnett (AKA Cooper) saw an old lady in at least three scenes. I was unclear, watching the movie, about exactly what the hell was supposed to be going on there. After consulting the oracles of Reddit, and of Quora, and the comments sections under some YT videos, I think I get it now. It does make sense, I guess I just had some kind of mental block against seeing it, or perhaps, of course, I'm just an idiot.

Basically, I think she was supposed to be Cooper's hallucination of his (probably deceased) mother. She doesn't talk in her first couple of appearances, but eventually she does talk. She is just sort of a haunting prresence who gives Cooper at least one LOOK that is rather baleful, right after he gives that poor girl who worked at the concession stand horrifying burns from the explosion in the fryolator. Wow, fryolator really is a word, according to Google, I'm surprised that that word was in my head...

Anyway, the old lady I'm talking about was supposed to be Cooper's hallucination of his mom, I'm pretty sure.

I am not, by the way, talking about the old lady who is prominent in the FBI/police sting operation devoted to capturing Cooper. She is a different old lady.

I thought possibly that Cooper's mom had at some point gone back to school and actually become an FBI profiler, just because of her scary experiences with Cooper when he was a child. I was mixing the two old ladies up, and attributing statements made by or about each of them to the other of the two.

Anyway. Yah. I just wanted to share that. It's a really good movie, IMHO, if you haven't seen it I do recommend it. M. Night Shyamalan was clearly trying to help his daughter out with her career, but I don't really care about that. I think you should be able to just enjoy the movie anyway, whatever you think about him possibly being nepotistic. Just try to keep your thoughts on those two topics separate, if possible.

OK, that's my two cents.