Favorite Non-Sports Movie.

My favorite non-sports movie is Secret Window starring Johnny Depp. Secret Window is a psychological horror film that is based off of a story entitled Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King. The movie is about a writer named Mort Rainey (played by Depp) who comes into contact (or so he thinks) with a man by the name of John Shooter who claims that Rainey stole his story. Throughout the movie, Mort feels that no matter where he goes (even at his secluded cabin in the woods), Shooter is always there trying to get him to admit that he plagiarized Shooter's work. Rainey then finds himself trying to find the actual manuscript that proves his work is original. When Mort plans to go to his house to get the book, his wife Amy (who is estranged after having an affair with another man named Ted, but still lives in the house) called him to tell him their house burnt down, which destroyed Mort's proof. After finding his dog Chico dead from stab wounds and having his house burnt down, Rainey suspects that Shooter is behind it and out to get him. Then he has his literary agent send him the magazine which had Rainey's story in it.

 After noticing that the pages that had the story were cut out of the magazine, Mort Rainey realizes that John Shooter is not a real person, but an alternative identity used specifically for harmful things (like Chico's murder and burning the house down) caused by Mort's dissociative identity disorder. Just as Mort had this epiphany, Amy came to get him to sign the papers for the finalization of their divorce. Looking around, Amy sees the word "shooter" all over the messy cabin. After Rainey comes into view, Amy then realizes that the word "shooter" leans toward how Mort wants to "shoot her". As Amy tries to run away, Rainey chases her and stabs her in the ankle so she can't go anywhere. Then she is forced to watch Rainey cut off Ted's (her lover, who came looking for her) head with a shovel. Rainey then buries the bodies and finishes his story. In the end, it is implied that Mort hid the bodies under his corn crops and their decomposing bodies provide nutrients for the corn to grow.

I love this movie because it's suspenseful and it really makes you think. It's one of those movies that you have to watch a few times to fully understand everything. It's an interesting plot twist when you find out that John Shooter isn't real and that it has been Mort Rainey himself all this time. This movie does an excellent job at showing how sometimes writers get so caught up in their work that they start to develop alternate personalities who become real people to them. It's also very interesting that this movie is based off of a Stephen King story because this situation (having an alternate personality and it becoming real) happened to King himself.