I think, this is a story on "Fake God": someone who controls Stu the lead's personal secret wants to play God himself. He over-watches Stu, peeping his conversation, activities, relationships with others, talks to Stu as a God, torturing him with his secrets, playing him like a cat playing a rat.
This feels so chilling and terrible, although the movie has a seemingly bright ending: to tell Stu to keep honest to everyone around. No, never, it is more like a God to show his mercy to his slave, not a good man to tell the guy to keep honest. What if the God threatens Stu to do something bad or something good but he is unwilling to do? Just to hold someone's secrets means you can control others' life? NO, I will not buy that. Beneath such kind of situation, the reason for a man to do something good is not because he is a good man, but because he is a slave controlled. I do not think a man without Free Will is a complete people.
Just think about "Enemy of the State", when someone over-watches you all the time, and know every detail of you, can you still live a happy or a normal life? I choose not if I were Stu.
Sadly, with the assistance of the modern information technology, more and more people think they can and be able to play God.
Quotes:
Stu: I have never done anything for anybody who couldn't do something for me. I string along an eager kid with promises I'll pay him money. I only keep him around because he looks up to me. Adam, if you're watching, don't be a publicist. You're too good for it. I lie in person and on the phone. I lie to my friends. I lie to newspapers and magazines who, who sell my lies to more and more people. I am just a part of a big cycle of lies, I should be fuckin' president. I wear all this Italian shit because underneath I still feel like the Bronx. I think I need these clothes and this watch. My two thousand dollar watch is a fake and so am I. I've neglected the things I should have valued most. I valued this shit. I take off my wedding ring to call Pam. Kelly, that's Pam. Don't blame her. I never told her I was married. And if I did she, she would have told me to go home. Kelly, looking at you now, I'm ashamed of myself. All right? I mean, I work so hard on this image, on Stu Shepherd, the asshole who refers to himself in the third person, that I only proved I should be alone. I have just been dressing up as something I'm not for so long, I'm so afraid no one will like what's underneath. But here I am, just flesh and blood and weakness, and uh and I love you so fucking much. And, um, I take off this ring because it only reminds me of how I've failed you, and I don't, don't want to give you up. I want to make things better, but it may not be my choice anymore. You deserve better.
Performance impression:
Director: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker
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