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I thought this was one was better. It is intense, creepy and twisted. The only complaint I have is it uses a lot of loud jump scares.
I'll be honest I forgot what happened at the end of the first movie and I was confused by the scene too. The scene takes place 6 days after the events of the first movie. In the first movie it's revealed the only way to avoid dying is to brutally kill someone in front of a witness to traumatize them and spread the curse to them.
The first movie ends with Rose killing herself in front of her boyfriend Joel. Joel is the person in the opening scene. He was a former cop and was trying to spread the curse to the gang members by killing one of them in front of the other. The guy that shows up and panics is Lewis Fregoli. The curse gets passed on to him. He's Skye's drug dealer who kills himself with the weight and passes it on to her.
She doesn't actually have an outstanding sense of deduction and intuition though. The devil and the doll are what allow her to pick the answer in the FBI interrogation room and the house where the murderer is at. The doll causes her to not notice Longlegs outside or how he got in the house and left the letter.
Her incredible intuition and the stupid things she did was the devil influencing her through the doll. It does seem convenient though to just hand wave any nonsensical things in the movie away with this reasoning but that's where we're at. She really wasn't exceptionally smart or intuitive like a Will Graham. In the opening scene she picks the right house because of the devil, not any sort of reasoning or attention to detail.
I also like the math in one scene. "4 tickets at $90 a pop is $260".
The movie is alright and shows the hardships of living in a van and the culture around it. The main character is tough and a hard-worker who was dealt a bad hand after husband passed away. It felt raw and represented something closer to a real person's life, however that doesn't necessarily make the movie entertaining. It will probably win awards for being different and highlighting a culture you don't hear a lot about but I would give it 6/10.
Nomadland reminds me of that 12 minute hole digging scene from The Americans with minimal dialogue. The scene like this movie gets the point across about the difficulty of burying a body or living in a van but it doesn't mean it's all that interesting.
I enjoyed Wild significantly more than this film.
You are correct. For some reason I remembered that shot being when the dad went down looking for her at the beginning. Thanks for letting me know.
The body of the girl was shown in the movie though which makes the twist contradictory. The movie has a lot of things that don't make sense with this being one. It was somewhat entertaining but the plot falls apart if you start examining it.
edit: I was incorrect, the shot of the body is in a dream sequence.
The only human he appeared to not be hostile towards was his mom. After he caught her trying to kill him, there wasn't a chance he was going to let her live. Even if they cut away it wouldn't have been very ambiguous to me.
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