Bridget Gregory is a strong, unmannered, and vicious telemarketing manager, who tries to escape from her unhappy marriage. In doing so, the money her husband Clay returned home with after a deal, is stolen by his deceitful wife Bridget. She takes the money and travels to Beston, Buffalo, where she manipulates a friend, in trying to kill her husband. Which she ends up doing on her own, to make her more satisfied. John Dahl keeps most of his genre conventions as close as possible to the norm of the genre. Throughout the scenes in the film he keeps the suburban setting and makes it dark, which is out the norm. We see dark alleys, and movie shots, which are angled so there appears to be a shadow. In the lighter scenes we see the shadows of the
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Which was hard for Mike to understand because he had a true liking for her. She uses Mike for sex so she can get him to gain a closer relationship with him. It was like she changed gender roles because women are the ones to gain harder feelings for men when they give away theirselves, but Bridget switched roles on Mike. She used Mike to her advantage when her plan to kill her husband goes wrong. After she kills her husband by spraying mace down his throat she plays mind games with Mike to do roleplay. She soaks him into her manipulation and reminds him that he slept with a man and she wanted to be raped. During the role-play she secretly calls 911. If she can just get the men to interact in her sexual ways she knows she has a hold on them. For example in the scene with Bridget and Harlan riding in the car, she gets him to show her his private parts and she immediately slams the car into a telephone pole and kills Harlan, the impact from the car throws him out. She commits her first murder, and the next target is to her unloved husband. She also has the last say, and plays the game against men very well. In the end we see her in the limousine with a smirk on her face as though she’s saying I broke this game against men winning against women, and I
Which was hard for Mike to understand because he had a true liking for her. She uses Mike for sex so she can get him to gain a closer relationship with him. It was like she changed gender roles because women are the ones to gain harder feelings for men when they give away theirselves, but Bridget switched roles on Mike. She used Mike to her advantage when her plan to kill her husband goes wrong. After she kills her husband by spraying mace down his throat she plays mind games with Mike to do roleplay. She soaks him into her manipulation and reminds him that he slept with a man and she wanted to be raped. During the role-play she secretly calls 911. If she can just get the men to interact in her sexual ways she knows she has a hold on them. For example in the scene with Bridget and Harlan riding in the car, she gets him to show her his private parts and she immediately slams the car into a telephone pole and kills Harlan, the impact from the car throws him out. She commits her first murder, and the next target is to her unloved husband. She also has the last say, and plays the game against men very well. In the end we see her in the limousine with a smirk on her face as though she’s saying I broke this game against men winning against women, and I