First off, I want to say that I was not expecting the main character Mark to be this killer who wants to see the reactions of women right before they are about to die.  But Mark throughout the movie starts to be pictured as this creepy and mysterious guy who hides up in his room making film all the time.  But I personally think that deep down inside that he is actually a caring person.

The first thing we can notice about Mark is that he always has his camera with him.  This is significant because he uses the camera whenever there are women around him.  When he was taking pictures of the models in the bedroom, he was very eager to film the red headed women.  The scenes he films can also portray Mark as a mysterious man.  For instance, he films the police investigating the women he has killed.  To me, that seems a little weird to be filming the women he just killed.  Another thing that he does that might seem a little creepy is that he makes his film in this dark and hidden room.  It might be coincidence that this room just so happens to be a dark room, but it adds to the effect that Mark is this unusual man.

The movie does a good job to portray Mark as this creepy man, but I honestly do not see Mark as that man.  As a kid he was traumatized by all the experiments that his dad did on him and I feel sorry that his childhood had to be like that.  But deep down inside, he does show that he cares about other people besides himself.  We first see this in the case where Mark allows Helen to come up to his apartment and give her a gift.  And he even stated that no one else has been in his apartment before so he must have shown some affection towards Helen.  Another instance where he shows that he cares about Helen is when they go on a date and Helen asks Mark to leave his camera behind.  He was reluctant at first, but he finally decided to leave his camera behind.  That was a huge step for Mark because he never goes anywhere without his camera.  But I think that the most significant instance where he shows that he has a heart is when he is about to kill Helen.  Normally he would kill the women he films, but in this case he restrains himself because he shows that he actually cares about Helen.

Mark is a interesting man in this movie because you can look at him in two perspectives.  You can see him as this killer who only wants to get scenes for his movie.  Or you can see him as a caring man who went through rough times and you want to feel sorry for him.  It was sad to seem him die in the movie because I feel as though he could have changed with a little therapy help just like Helen’s mom has suggested.  And on a closing note, I do not know what Helen saw in Mark to begin with.