Director Nisam Basheer’s psychological suspense film Rorschach features Mammootty in the protagonist role, know the movie ending explained
Grace Antony, Jagadeesh, Sharafudheen, Kottayam Nazeer, Sanju Sivram, Bindu Panicker, and Asif Ali, who makes a brief appearance, round out the cast.
Rorschach’s story revolves around a mysterious guy named Luke Antony who goes to the police station to report his wife missing. The police give up looking for the missing woman after fruitless searches, but Luke persisted in staying and got to know some of the locals better. And as time goes on, we learn more about him and his sinister intentions. And before we go any further, I should tell you that there will be SPOILERS!
Rorschach Mammootty Movie 2022 Ending Explained, Spoilers And Plot Story
Luke is essentially on a mission of vengeance to eliminate the man who murdered his wife in their Dubai home during a home invasion. The issue is that the person he intended to get revenge on, Dileep (Asif Ali wearing a fabric mask covered in blood), has already passed away after being killed in an accident. Luke then does what?
Purchase his unfinished home with the money Dileep must have stolen from others, ruin his reputation at home, desecrate his grave and take his skull to make an ashtray, wed and have a sexual relationship with his widow, turn her against Dileep by allowing her to uncover the truth about him and expose his wrongdoings to the villagers, and essentially burn down the foundation of his rival.
Does Luke succeed in doing that? Was he indeed receiving a beating from Dileep’s ghost? To the best of our ability, we will attempt to interpret the intricate Rorschach finale in this segment. Naturally, we might be mistaken, so feel free to correct us in the remarks area below.
Does Luke genuinely perceive ghosts?
Although the film wants you to believe that Dileep’s ghost is genuine (helped by Shashankan’s claim that he hears the ghost at night), I think the paranormal events depicted in the movie are nothing more than Luke’s mind playing games on him. This is confirmed early in the movie when his dead wife’s “ghost” informs him that she is nothing more than a hallucination.
Luke, on the other hand, disregards what she says since he is so determined to seek retribution and wants to bring Dileep back to life. Remember that after talking to Dileep’s mother about how people who have passed away still exist in the form of pleasant memories and legacies, he began to ‘experience’ Dileep’s ghost.
While watching the movie, it is not difficult to surmise that Luke is experiencing paranoid schizophrenia, which may be brought on by his anguish over his wife’s murder and the torture he endured in the “white room” by the Dubai police.
The “beatings” he inflicted on the “ghost” were probably self-inflicted, much like Tyler Durden in David Fincher’s Fight Club, who appeared to be beating the Narrator but was actually beating himself. The film might be pulling the same prank on us—and there are many instances of this in it—just like Luke’s damaged mind is pulling on him. Shashankan’s reports of seeing ghosts were simply him trying to talk Luke out of purchasing the house so he could keep it for himself.
The movie’s title is a clear indication of Luke’s damaged mentality. The Rorschach test is a psychological assessment that uses ink-blot paintings to detect whether a subject has an emotional disturbance. This is predicated on the types of “pictures” that the viewer perceives in such works of art, which in this case are the strange visions that Luke keeps conjuring up in his head, with Dileep’s house serving as the ink-blot painting for him.
The Story’s Real Villain
By the third act, it is clear that Seetha, Dileep’s mother, is the source of both his evilness and that of his younger brother Anil (Sanju Sivram) (Bindu Panicker). Even after their deaths, she still cannot tolerate for anyone to criticise her children since they are the centre of her existence. When Ashraf (Jagadeesh), a police officer, approaches her with proof of Dileep’s wrongdoings, she murders him. Seetha doesn’t want anything to be said that might damage her son’s legacy or the legacy of her living son, even though her son is dead.
She travels to Luke with the same aim to kill him with the help of the thugs, except that Luke proved to be a far more formidable opponent than an unwary Ashraf. Seetha reveals to Luke that she is aware of her son’s wrongdoings and that she has been okay with that before all of her schemes are thwarted and Luke kills Anil. Of course, Seetha pays for her sins when her lone surviving son is slain and her son-in-law betrays her by telling the authorities she killed Ashraf, leading to his detention.
Why did Luke come back?
Knowing Luke, it would be foolish to assume that he had gone underground for repentance and then turned himself in to the police. Additionally, he only admitted to killing Dileep, which the authorities are unsure of why given that Dileep had been murdered accidentally. Luke did “murder” Dileep when the town realised what a monster Seetha’s older son was, after his widow had already set fire to his factory and the community had destroyed the other monuments honouring him.
But I guess Luke didn’t consider his task to be finished. He had heard Seetha admit to him that, whether they engaged in good deeds or bad, her sons are merely mirror images of who she is. In Luke’s opinion, the moment when Dileep’s spirit materialises next to her as she says this made it clear that she is the source of all of his problems and that Dileep won’t truly “die” until she is destroyed.
The scene where Luke is about to kill Anil and notices Seetha leaving the house reflects this as well. The incident in this sequence is similar to one from the night his wife was killed. When Luke catches Dileep’s sidekick and breaks his neck, after which Dileep escapes the scene.
However, Seetha hasn’t been detained for the murder of Ashraf, and Dileep’s reputation hasn’t been damaged. Although Seetha is imprisoned for the murder of a police officer, there is also a sympathy wave for her, which is thought to be atone for the atrocities committed by her sons.
People believe that she murdered Ashraf rather than Dileep for learning that Anil had murdered his father. Luke now wanted to remove the image of her as the sorrowful mother of two rebellious sons, which may be why he came back.
Consequently, Who is the “Ghost” That Luke Welcomes Back?
The closing scene features an apparition entering Luke’s cell after soaring through the police station (where the spirit of his dead wife is also there). Luke recognises the spirit and welcomes it back. At first glance, it can be interpreted as Dileep’s “ghost” making a comeback. Before the ghost can enter the jail, a police officer rushes to tell her superiors that Seetha committed suicide by hanging herself in her cell. I therefore want to think that what Luke is currently observing is the “ghost” of Seetha, and that she has become his new target of retribution.
Once more, given that this scene opens in a “white chamber,” an improbable anomaly in a Keralan police station, it seems possible that Luke is experiencing yet another hallucination.