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Why The Twist Is Not Stupid

posted 13 years ago by wwmcfar
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POSSIBLE SPOILERS

For the record this film is an excellent slasher horror with extreme violence which doesn’t deny the true visceral brutality of the violence it depicts like so many Hollywood productions do.

Many people reviewing or posting on forums about this film say the twist is stupid because many of the events depicted such as the car chase or service station scenes are impossible in hindsight after the twist is revelled but this is simply not true.

What they need to realise is that everything that happens in the film is subject to the fantasy interpretation of reality of the protagonist and that very little of what is depicted on screen actually happens. It is the demented hero fantasy of an infatuated and fractured psyche where two personalities exist concurrently but only one has control at any one time.

This is why the impossibilities don’t matter because they NEVER HAPPENED. The car chase and crash never happened, the service station scene did not happen the way she imagined it and many of her injuries were probably self-inflicted. Also the severed head fallatio scene is the conception in Marie’s mind of a killer so depraved that he would brutally slay an entire family to have the woman she loves thus making her Alexia’s saviour not her abductor.

I hope this has cleared things up for those without imagination.

[–] znegative 8 years ago

Yeah, you totally spoke my mind, although in a more articulate manner than I would have wrote out.

Anyway, before watching the movie I had read some reviews that said it was a great film up until the last 15 minutes or so I had this kind of predetermined idea that I was in for a real let down, and when it happened I was initially upset. I thought 'Oh brother they just through in a plot twist because they didn't no where else to take the film'. But then as the final minutes of the film played out, I started to think it was kind of interesting. The film in general led such an impression on me that I decided to watch it for a second time a few hours later, and with the twist in mind, I found watching the movie a second time a very different experience, and I enjoyed and appreciated it's ending a lot more.

In fact, I think one of the greatest scenes in the movie was the final 'jolt' when her friend comes to see her in the mental hospital and asks 'she can't see me through the glass right?' at which point our warped protagonist looks up and thrusts out her hands! I thought that was brilliant.

[–] Mugros 8 years ago

In fact, I think one of the greatest scenes in the movie was the final 'jolt' when her friend comes to see her in the mental hospital and asks 'she can't see me through the glass right?' at which point our warped protagonist looks up and thrusts out her hands! I thought that was brilliant.

What was brilliant about that?
It either means that Marie has some kind of supernatural powers now or the police joked with Alex when they said, Marie can't see her. Both are equally non-brilliant.

[–] tbonesays 8 years ago

I'm surprised people call out the fellatio (thankfully cut from the tv version I just watched) as being a plot hole when there are more obvious ones like one woman driving two vehicles. Marie is imagining herself as the monsterous man killer and could have easily positioned herself and acted as though she had a phallus. Or maybe she brought one for the occasion.