Rainey is a best-selling author and has written numerous mystery novels. Then one day his wife cheated on him with someone else and filed for divorce. Although the two negotiated the divorce agreement early, Rainey did not sign it because he felt that the ending (peaceful divorce) was not perfect. And the reason why he thinks so is because of a personality he splits out: Shet.
Scheter has been threatening Rainey to change the ending on the grounds that Rainey copied his own works. The next step is a series of mysteries that serve the development of the plot and satisfy the sense of suspense: the lakeside conversation between the two personalities happened to be witnessed by a hapless person, and added A seemingly powerful private detective, and an old policeman with a stroke came to muddy the waters.
After that, the film ushered in the same ending as Rainey's novel: the wife and her cheating partner were both killed and buried in the garden behind the secret window.
As for what Rainey said at the end when answering the police question: "He took another corncob out of the pot, and after a while she would disappear completely, and her death would be a mystery, even I couldn't solve it. "On the one hand, there are repeated echoes in the film, highlighting the contradiction between the two personalities. On the other hand, it is implied that the person who completed the "modified ending" is the split personality Schott. It was mentioned earlier that Scheter coerced Rainey to modify the ending of the novel, and the original ending in Rainey's novel (mentioned above in the information that Schett gave to Rainey when he first came to Rainey's house), the burial garden and Not being planted on the cob, and now planting the cob shows that the ending has been modified, and Shet's purpose has been achieved. The revised ending is also hinted at in the film, a sentence by Todd Downey about the corn on the cob that the protagonist mentions many times.
As for "I couldn't solve it myself in the end", it was probably because the two corpses were buried in the garden, and the corn cobs planted on them absorbed the nutrients of the corpses and grew wildly, and finally became a delicacy in Rainey's mouth. And it wasn't Rainey who did it all, it was Schott. This means that Rainey "eats" his wife and her cheating partner without knowing it. Although the town police and residents suspected him of killing, there was no substantial evidence, and even the body could not be found. So much so that in the end, even Rainey himself couldn't solve it.
To be honest, the captain's acting skills are really not that good. The captain's performance was mediocre when Rainey received the magazine only to find that key pages were torn, and the dialogue between the two personalities took place immediately. A flat expression of "it's none of my business". I don't mean to disrespect the captain, but if it was replaced by Cage, Norton, and Russell, it would definitely be much more exciting. Many people raved about the captain's performance in this play, don't you feel embarrassed?
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