The film strongly implies that Woodrow's rape and murder(?) of Milly and all the other disturbing events is confined to his fantasy. There's a line when Woodrow confronts Milly during this fantasy, before he becomes violent, where he says he was thinking about all the sick stuff he was going to do to her, so when the film cuts back to Woodrow sitting in front of the box of Milly's stuff unharmed and not strewn over her yard it strongly suggests that what we just witnessed was the sick stuff of his fantasies. Also, the film cuts back to this fantasy world toward the very end of the film, with Milly coming to comfort Woodrow in the street, somehow magically resurrected despite the large amount of blood on Woodrow's clothing and her screaming during the rape.

This realization turns Wodrow into one of the most despicable characters I've seen in any recent film, and I strongly agree with Cold Bishop's interpretation that this is a critique of this man-boy mentality. No one could see Woodrow rape and possibly kill Milly, then ignore his girlfriend's yells and suicide and find this a sympathetic portrayal of such a character. If these events weren't part of Woodrow's fantasy then I would simply call this a misogynistic and awful film, but it's not that easy. These sick events are all part of Woodrow's fantasies, making them much more disturbing than they would be if they simply occurred within the film's reality. Woodrow actually fantasizes about raping and murdering his ex, and on top of that throws in his current girlfriend's suicide. Why does the girlfriend kill herself in his fantasy land? Only because he ignores her there, as if her existence is meaningless without him, and since he doesn't care for her, her suicide is but a blip on his radar. This is a character so self-involved and despicable that his fantasies consist raping his ex and his girlfriend's suicide. This isn't a misogynistic film, it's a film about misogyny.

The female characters in this fantasy world conform to these stereotypical roles so much that they become these twisted versions: the bitch ex who gives Woodrow a face tattoo and laughs at his misfortune, the clingy girlfriend so inexplicably obsessed with Woodrow that she abandons her apartment and then kills herself. On top of that when Woodrow finally confronts Milly, the climactic point of his fantasy, she begs for his forgiveness in a complete 180 from her vindictive face tattoo-ing bitch ex, even allowing Woodrow to have sex with her. Everything in the climactic moments of this fantasy act as the ultimate male ego trip where women beg forgiveness and kill themselves merely because the man refuses to acknowledge them. This is the fantasy world Woodrow makes for himself. Perhaps despicable was the wrong word, pathetic seems a much more appropriate description of the lead's delusions.