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The article mentions Taxi Driver. I thought I was the only one who was constantly reminded of Taxi Driver in the third act.
I saw the hovering as him going into a peaceful trance, visualising snowy mountains etc until being jolted out of it with the pollution imagery. It served to show how obsessed he was becoming with the whole thing.
Why would you think the ending was a dream? Nothing in the movie indicated any ambiguity.
At first I thought he was just a voyeur who panicked when his cameras were discovered. He then went on a killing spree before the cops were called in order to cover everything up.
But then the ending shows us that this is his modus operandi. No way that's sustainable. Only a matter of time before the cops start hunting for the BNB killer.
No. It's bait and switch. You start out thinking it's a character-driver psychological horror but it ends up being a Friday the 13th/Halloween mashup.
Initially, I thought he is a voyeur who is forced to kill everyone because they discovered his cameras and were going to call the police. The cameras would eventually lead back to him, so he had to kill everyone to cover up.
But then renting BNBs, rigging them and killing everyone seems to be his full time MO? How does that work? The movie makes it look like he goes about operating under the radar. Good luck wiping out the entire staff and customers of a hotel and not attracting any cops lol.
Your theory is correct. When Gambir snaps back to reality, one of the books lying open in front of him has a picture of sculptures in poses similar to the pregnant sculptures we see earlier in the film. Another magazine has a picture of a pregnant woman. The title of a 3rd book, translated to English, is "BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM". This is where he probably got the idea of impotence and paralyzing agent.
Couldn't tell what books she gave the guard, despite slowing down the video and watching frame by frame. One of them that the guard flips through was a magazine, whose title ended with the letters TIMATI. Make of that what you will.
Didn't the events of GeniSys completely erase the events of T1 and T2?
I don't think we are supposed to feel sorry for the kids. Grace is the tragic heroine. She has a fleshed out backstory which justifies everything she does. Her killing the kids is deliberately not shown so that the audience doesn't turn against her and she remains a sympathetic character.
I interpreted it as the two of them living inside the room in an infinite world. Kate made a wish to be pregnant right before looking at the stick. The room flickered in response.
But if they could construct any kind of reality, why would they live in a motel and not a bungalow?
Here's an alternate theory -
Shane's sperm lives on inside Kate and impregnates her because Shane, its creator, dies. Kate never leaves the house until after Shane is dead, so the sperm never had a chance to disintegrate. When she finally comes out of the house, Shane is already dead. A month later she finds out she is pregnant. The lights flickering was just a coincidence.
It flew under the radar. People probably thought it's a teen slasher.
She clearly meant don't get caught by Finn during the morning picture, and thus give away the secret of the 8am picture. But yes she thought she could somehow change something that has already happened - her getting caught by Finn. All the other stuff with gambling at the dog races never contradicted the pictures, so that went smoothly.
This bugged me too. But I'm ok with it because it didn't affect the plot much. The shady bookies were <spoiler>killed before the final act</spoiler>. Also it was understandable that Jasper would bet on greyhounds because the movies shows us that Jasper actually had an interest in greyhound racing even before any of the time-lapse stuff started. So it was probably his immediate instinct to make money off it.
The kids weren't partially responsible, they let the dog out and it froze to death. And even if it didn't, the dog would have starved/gotten lost in the snow. That's when I started rooting for Grace.
I was rooting for Grace to murder the brats at the end. You kill an innocent dog, you deserve to die.
Also it is implied that he is a therapist and she is his patient. Immediate grounds for losing his license. I cheered when <spoiler>got a bullet put in his stupid head.</spoiler>
Pretentious garbage.
30. A gaping hole through your stomach can be fixed up overnight with a beer and a campfire.
31. The only side effects of this surgical operation are a badass tattoo and changes to hair colour.
32. You could be bleeding to death in the desert, but when you hear people in the distance, your first instinct is to hide and not call for help.
33. The way you know someone is a misogynist is they give a speech about the inferiority of women before attempting to murder one.
34. A 100lb woman can leave a trail of blood so long that you need a car to follow it.
35. If you a naked, barefoot and vulnerable woman in the desert who is looting a dead body, you will ignore the clothes and shoes for the guns and holsters.
36. Blood flows around corners of walls.
37. A driver will gently stop his speeding Range Rover if you put a bullet in his head.
38. Party drugs make you smart.
39. Anyone following your blood trail won't even see a speck of blood if you just give yourself a DIY bandage.
Maybe something about how workers are like farm animals now. But yeah the movie collapsed on itself in the last act.
According to Wiki, the American government of the day promised citizens up to 160 acres of land if they could move to these desolate areas and make something of the land there (start a farm, or a business). This was called the Homestead act. And the families lived at least half a mile apart, if not more. The extreme isolation led to what's called 'prairie madness' which is the basis of this movie.