[ SECRET POST #3941 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3941 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[feotakahari]

I'm going to recommend the comic Elk's Run. It doesn't have the horror aspect, but it deals with a lot of the same concepts.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, the visuals are great. But hus movies depend so much on the big twist at the end and this one wasn't difficult, especially when you expect it. I think people were tired of that.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked the Village a lot when I saw it, too, but mostly for the ~atmosphere~ and the MC's journey? I wasn't familiar with shamalamanamanna's ~oevre~ at all at the time, which I think definitely contributed to my enjoyment. If I'd been looking for The Tweest it would have been a much flatter experience, for sure.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, I feel like it's not a good twist.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree.

[(Anonymous)]

I love this movie. I mean, to me the twist was predictable, but it was a beautifully shot and acted film so I didn't mind the twist at all.

Might be the ending.

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of people were expecting a better twist.

I liked the movie up until the very end. It wasn't the twist I had a big issue with (though it did make a bunch of the characters both pathetic and manipulative), it was the dumbass decision to send the blind girl out. All of the elders knew what was out there, if they didn't want anyone to find out, one of them could have gone. It was aggravating to me.

Re: Might be the ending.

[(Anonymous)]

The elders made a pact not to leave.

Re: Might be the ending.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

They also created the village to escape violence, which didn't exactly work. Their actions led to what happened. I would think that people would be more important than that pact. It's a pact, it can be broken. That's just an excuse.

Re: Might be the ending.

[(Anonymous)]

How did their actions lead one character to stab another?

Re: Might be the ending.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I got the impression that because of the whole creature thing, Noah kind of thought of fear and violence as a game.

[(Anonymous)]

Probably my favourite from Deakins. He rocked those pale palettes.

(Spoilers)

[syncing_feeling]

I don't have much of an issue with the final twist. I even thought it was kind of neat. But I spent the first half of the movie being so creeped out and tense (because like you said, the visuals and audio were so great) that the mid-film twist of "lol it's just people in costumes" completely took the sting out of it for me. I was totally on board with the atmosphere and story up till then.

Re: (Spoilers)

[(Anonymous)]

RA

i will agree the people in costumes thing was a bit of a bummer. I was genuinely freaked out.

[(Anonymous)]

The marketing. The previews made it look like a horror film, it wasn't, and people were mad.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the correct answer.

[(Anonymous)]

yes! This! Just another time the marketing was very misleading and did the movie no favors.

[(Anonymous)]

I really liked it too, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

I really liked it! But I went into it super spoiled, so maybe knowing what the twist was from the start helped.

[(Anonymous)]

Before I saw the movie, I had read an article about some people saying that he had perhaps copied the idea from a certain children's book (Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix)....which I had read and done a book report on in middle school. So, based on that, I figured out the twist before even seeing the film. Oh, well.
But, I still loved the movie: the acting, the story, the amazing music. And just the whole atmosphere. It's one of my favorite movies, to be hones.

[(Anonymous)]

I hate that fucking movie.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of the hate comes from not just the fact that the twist is the basic concept from Running Out of Time, it's also that this movie is so close to that book that it has essentially ruled out any possibility that Running Out of Time will be adapted.

Or so I read.

[ladysugarquill]

Terrible, terrible advertising.

I saw it in cinemas and I absolutely loved it, but I DID go expecting a horror movie and found a social drama with ocasional monsters. Most people can't let go of their expectations when watching a movie.

(Which is why no one should really watch movie trailers, or read reviews before watching the thing. I don't and I often enjoy movies that everybody hated, simply because they were expecting a different movie altogether.)

[(Anonymous)]

Re the 'stupid twist' everyone hates

I think the message was that you can't escape dealing with violence and evil by hiding and leaving your children uninformed will not protect them from having to deal with bad things anyway. Sometimes monsters aren't an Other which comes from outside, they're just people in your community and you have to accept that and fight them as they are or they'll never go away. And sometimes the monsters are the well meaning grownups who want to shelter you from evil so badly that they will ruin your life to make it happen.

And I felt like that was a particularly appropriate message for the era the movie came out in. But people were more interested in ranting about how they were cheated out of a true horror movie. maybe they need to rethink the concept of what 'horrorifying' means.

I loved the level of historical research which clearly went into the design of the movie. I live near a Shaker museum and sometimes I'll be walking through and enter a semi dark room where a red cloak is hanging on the wall and I get a little shiver.