TO THOSE WHO JUST DON'T GET THIS MOVIE *SPOILERS* - Honeymoon (2014) Discussion

[–] hotarubi_loveskira 10 years ago

i just wanna know what is that thing inside her body?
is that really alien?
why her skin get worse like that?
why? why? there's so much question to me for the ending

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[–] holdendani 10 years ago

It's extraterrestial (or alien)...or at least I don't think there are things like that on Earth lol.

Those things (aliens, or whatever supernatural thing) not only impregnate her, but "infect" her. It's like they plant an alien baby inside her, and it changes her whole body (probably she'll also turn alien, or something like that)

The ending doesn't really matter in this film imo. The main theme of this movie, is how she's changing, and that everyone (viewer, the husband) unsure, of what is happening. I wondered sometimes, what if everything is OK with the girl, and the guy hallucinates, and overthink things. It's about the suspension, and uncertainity. The plot, and the meaning of everything isn't matter that much (aliens, or supernatural creatures gangbanged the girl, impregnate her, and turned her into something not-human. She lost her identity, and humanity. She didn't think as human at the end (that's why she thought, hiding her hubby underwater is a cool idea). I don't think it has deeper meanings (like after the wedding people changes, or having a baby can change your relation). Yeah, you can think about those things after the movie. It plays a bit with those, but it's pretty straightforward alien-bodysnatcher-mystery-horror)

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[–] LeeMcAdam 10 years ago

hat if everything is OK with the girl, and the guy hallucinates, and overthink things.

I to was wondering if this was the case

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[–] beersandshots 10 years ago

... (aliens, or supernatural creatures gangbanged the girl, impregnate her, and turned her into something not-human.

Does that mean she got AIDS (Alien Immune Deficiency Syndrome)? Let this be a lesson to you- if you're gonna get gangbanged by aliens, always insist on safe probing!

"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

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[–] crazy_drunk_pedestrian 10 years ago

What is there not to get? It was pretty straightforward....

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[–] lazarillo 10 years ago

So basically an alien race impregnates/posesses anyone with a vagina? That's not very original. I initially thought the lake community was a secret alien colony and I couldn't figure out why the wife of the old boyfriend rather than the old boyfriend himself became an alien.

And if the old boyfriend was just a red herring, they should have made it look more like the alien encounter was an extramarital affair. It was too obvious it was something extraterrestrial.

This movie had a few good elements, but explaining it doesn't make it seem brilliant, just less clever than I thought it was.

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[–] antvolley 10 years ago

Yeah, basically, I suppose. Probably the alien physiognomy shares certain traits with our own in that it needs an incubator of some kind and human females womb's fit the bill pretty well!
An okay film but a bit too "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" to be anything extraordinary in my opinion.

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[–] dawatcher 10 years ago

Hehehe.....don't forget those end credits

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[–] bajparry 10 years ago

I think when read as an alien abduction film, Honeymoon surely ranks as the most terrifying example of the genre that I have ever seen. And indeed, if alien abductions really do happen, this fillm paints a deeply convincing picture of the literally alien / otherly horror of that experience.

However, I didn't get bogged down in the whole alien thing as that seemed like a device to explore what can happen to a healthy and seemingly rock solid relationship when one partner is violated in some way. The actual violation could be viewed as unwanted pregnancy or perhaps the loss of one's self to an illness such as Alzheimer's. But I think this film pretty clearly had rape in mind.

None-the-less, I don't wish to suggest that this film was meant as an allegory of rape or some other traumatic violation. But merely that it examines a relationship after having undergone a (any) traumatic violation.

A brilliant and deeply unsettling film that gave me repeated goosebumps and made me shiver endlessly.

"Find out what to think next!"
-Chris Morris, "Brasseye"

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[–] Reno-Rangan 10 years ago

The dialogues were so badly written, sometime it repeated again and again. :(

Earlier I thought it was a 'bigfoot' who raped her, that's why she was bleeding. It was when he measures a foot print with his in the woods

Obviously like everybody here says it was alien invasion on human body thing. The light beam was so cliche, but without that we woulda not talked about aliens here.

The final dialogue of the movie was 'Before, I was alone, but now I'm not' said by Bea. In my guess she meant physically as an organic body, one mind and one soul, later whatever that thing is, it possessed her and now two of them just like the movie 'The Host (2013)'.

Also imo, Paul is not dead. She knew what she was doing. Remember she earlier said 'Earthworm can live for up to five minutes underwater'. That meant a clue for something which might reveal in the sequel. Yes, I'm guessing a sequel will be there and Paul will be back, that's why the end was so dull.

You better know what you want to do before somebody knows it for you -The Astronaut Farmer

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[–] carrieclarke 10 years ago

Paul's dead. How would he ever get out of those ropes around his wrists and ankles? Bye bye Paul.

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[–] eljaye-60857 10 years ago

I agree the dialogue wasn't great. Even before she started to be "infected" they didn't seem to have great chemistry.

I don't think this will get enough interest for a sequel but who knows.

Maybe she is misremembering the thing she knew earlier about earthworms and thinking that he can live underwater? Everything is getting confused and it almost looks like she understands what she's done to him on the boat after he disappears but she isn't really sure.

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[–] fatpie42 10 years ago

I don't think they should do a sequel. It was a self-contained story.

The way she kills him is definitely linked to the earthworms thing. I think the way the aliens are taking over her mind is what makes her paranoid for her husband's safety - and, as a result, is also what leads her to kill him through her own confused mental state.

I actually thought they had great chemistry together. I'd rather they just set the whole thing in England and given them their normal accents though. I was pretty much imagining them talking in their normal accents all the time.

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[–] fatpie42 10 years ago

She says in the Honeymoon video that she'll never be alone again. The aliens are taking her over and she loses her 'self' to them, sort of like a marriage is supposed to involve losing yourself and becoming a combination of two people.

And all through the process, she's trying desperately not to lose who she is and not to lose her love for her husband. However, she's also terrified that the aliens are going to harm him. In the end, that paranoia of harm coming to her partner is what causes harm to come to him.

What seems like an imposter inhabiting his wife's body is actually his wife desperately trying not to lose herself to the aliens. Everything she does is not to cruelly deceive him, but is actually out of love. That was quite a surprise.

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