[ SECRET POST #5145 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5145 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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03. [SPOILERS for Yashahime]



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04. [SPOILERS for Higurashi/Umineko]



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05. [SPOILERS for The Invisible Man]



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06. [WARNING for mention of suicide]



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Comments

[fscom]

05. [SPOILERS for The Invisible Man]
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[(Anonymous)]

Omg, this movie had some really stupid plot points. Ngl, I can suspend my disbelief at some of this but wow. The part that got me was when they finally believed her about everything but that it was the brother. Like, sure, she was right about every crazy thing but must be mistaken about that. Also, how she got the fucking suit on in the end in like 20 seconds and without getting caught. And the email to her sister? Lol, who even checks their email that often? If your sister who just got out of an abusive relationship is as confused as you are about an email, then maybe something is going on.

[kaijinscendre]

OH GOD, the email. That was so fucking stupid. My sister and I watched it together. And she was like, "Who the fuck would just cut their sister off over an email?? At worst, you'd ask them if they are having a psychotic episode or something." I didn't even care when she died.

[(Anonymous)]

SA Also who would even start shit over an email? We have smartphones now.

[(Anonymous)]

People who are bad at messaging?

I love email and hate phone messages. Too much pressure to respond when you get it.

[(Anonymous)]

that made me furious because it would be one thing if she didn't believe her, but she'd seen adrian be abusive and violently attempt to keep her from escaping. why the FUCK would she immediately take an email like that at its word? at the very least wouldn't she call and try to check in instead of going 'nope, you were mean, i don't talk to you anymore'.

[(Anonymous)]

I check mine very often. Especially for work. And there are a lot of people with contentious relationships who DO eventually do that with people. Like, the email can be the last straw.

But the point WAS that the response to her was illogical. I'm not saying the movie doesn't have stupid moments, but the sexism it was trying to make a statement on IS illogical.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a pet peeve of mine when invisibility in movies seems to come with omnipotenence and omnipresence. An invisible person can still only be in one place at once!

In the original novel, part of the whole point is that invisibility doesn't make you automatically superior to everyone, and in fact comes with more downsides than uses. "An invisible man is a man of power," he says, while cold and hungry and barefoot and sick because he's naked in England in winter.

[(Anonymous)]

Spoilers but in the film, it is revealed eventually that there were two invisible people cooperating. So any two places at once moment could have been explained that way.

[epicurean]

I like the movie I feel the invisible stuff was a small part of the story but not the center of it. The gaslighting and abuse done by the boyfriend and the fact that he got away with a lot of things because he was in a position of money and power was a huge part of the story and the reason why I enjoyed it.

Not saying my comment should invalidate your opinion, OP. Just saying what I (and maybe other) liked about the movie.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, OP is kinda looking at it from a different angle, and that's leading to a lot of confusion. OP is looking for logic and not finding it, whereas the people who loved this movie (myself included) tended to like it as a story about abuse. Because that's where the real horror and tension came in. The invisibility is just a metaphor for the omnipresence an abusive partner can have in your mind (and sometimes day-to-day life.)

[epicurean]

Yeeep! It really stands out as a story of abuse! I saw it with a friend and we where both horrified and clutching our seats because it was obvious the boyfriend was alive, but we didn't know how far he would take the gaslighting and abuse (and boy, did he not only took it far it, it was horrifying to watch).

[(Anonymous)]

The thing that always gets me about that movie is that he didn't even need to fake his death and be invisible to get away with everything he did. Millions of non-invisible people get away with this shit every single day. He was getting away with it before he became invisible! If anything this should have been called The Invisible Woman, because no one was seeing Cecilia.

[(Anonymous)]

To me, that's what makes the movie effective as a thriller. I mean, yes, the man is invisible and that makes for wild stuff like crazy hospital shootouts, but everything else, the stalking, the gaslighting, that can and does already happen all the time.

[thewakokid]

Yeah, but then NONE of the Dark Universe films have been up to much.

I didn't hate Dracula, I guess, but it definitely wasn't up to snuff

[(Anonymous)]

i was looking for a movie to go see with someone once, watched the trailer for this and couldn't believe how incredibly stupid it looked, so we decided not to go see it...

the whole concept just seems really done.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

wow, i meant dumb not done. which i apparently am.