She didn't defend her daughter from an actual attack by Bob, she just had a vision of it. No, it's because she had a VISION of her daughter being murdered by Bob. It's not even because she was just tired of covering up for a man and would, hopefully, give the families of the victims some kind of closure. The problem is that when Darcy DOES decide to do something about it it's only because she had a vision of her daughter being killed like one of the women Bob killed. Darcy, upon being confronted by Bob about her finding out the truth, decides to keep her mouth shut in order to protect her family from any of the blow-back, which was bound to happen if she went straight to the cops.
There's no exploration of the strife that causes between Bob and Darcy. I understand that concept, but the film does it in as one-dimensional manner as is possible.
Finding out that the father of your children, the man you've loved for 25 years, is a notorious serial killer and that's not a knowledge that's easy to grasp. But the movie doesn't do a good job at making its lead character sympathetic or likable. There's a reason that a lot of films, with the exception of superhero films and other epic-type films, don't go over 2 hours very often. So you can play around with the character more than you would with a film, where you have a very limited amount of time. A book, or a short story in a book full of them, can be as long as you want it to be. In a television series, you have considerably more time, over a number of episodes, in order to tell the story you want, within reason of course. Films are, obviously, a more limiting form of storytelling than TV series or books. At least from how she views Bob after finding out that he is a serial killer. It's one that fails to fully realize the potential of its story from Darcy's viewpoint and what must be going through her mind as she discovers that the life she has led with her husband of 25 years has been a total lie. Not a particularly good movie to be honest.
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