The movie is poorly written. You don't go back when you find your own fucking child sleeping in the bedroom of strangers who ARE NAKED. It's just trash, I didn't enjoy the movie a bit.
@@YunoGasai414 That was my biggest problem. When they go back and they're trying to explain why they want to leave, surely you would just be like 'I found my child in bed with you and your husband was naked, that's completely out of order, we're leaving'. Even though the wife is like 'but she was crying, where were you?' - well then you could have woken us up. Found that very unconvincing.
One of the only films to ever make me feel truly uncomfortable and disgusted. I love all kinds of horror and thrillers. But this film hits you like a ton of bricks.
Watched it today, thought it was rather good, although the plot beats are extremely predictable - reminded me of the 'characters trying to save face' from Ostlund, with a smattering of Funny Games and The Strangers. Not one I'll be wanting to see again, but some very interesting character dynamics!
Fuck sake… psychological nightmare… I didn’t know what to do with myself. The end is so barbaric, it leaving you asking why million times, also I won’t trust strangers ever, and you gotta trust your gut feeling!!!
This film was frustrating - there's a ton of clever techniques, moments and decisions, that turn the dials of tension, and some of it is SO good, genuinely uncomfortable and awful! Then it makes some stupid choices that undermine that tension. This film annoys me *because* it's so close to being genuinely brilliant and in a class of its own. Still VERY much worth a watch - plenty of times your skin will crawl
A movie that teeters between reasonable and unreasonable--from a meta sense. The writing tries to manipulate you into believing that the things that happen in the movie are just benign enough to justify a polite passivity. The problem is that during the middling half of the movie, a relatively dangerous implication happens and one character decides to recede their concern over this potentially evil thing from a simple talk in a kitchen with other parties involved. It really just tries to justify the unjustifiable. That is what pulls me out of the movie. There are a myriad of these instances, but the major one, and the most significant one--which snitches on the ending--leaves a lasting impression of implausibility that casts a larger shadow than the fear the movie wants to elicit. I would've enjoyed the movie much more if there had been a GOOD point the movie was trying to make, more than just 'being too agreeable.' It doesn't even try to connect it to symptoms of modernity and the gradual, instinctual erasure to a point of not recognizing danger. It leaves out those implications, and instead simply relies on the randomness of picking several people out of a group and betting, through non-absolute personality ques, that they happen to be gullible enough to be treated like the film displays. The message would've been much stronger had it given itself a proper ending, and not a weird, vapid, instantly deflated pseudo-resolution. There's nothing objectively wrong with playing something by the numbers. You'll just have to accept that you'll be boring because of it.
This film was awful because it was seeing a lot of well crafted tension and atmosphere wasted on a completely shallow one dimensional point, not a plot really just a point, and characters that don't act like humans specifically to make that point. Over and over and over again. And then they explain it to you because they think you're a moron. Do not waste your time with this film. I'd also point out that although unpleasant the ending is really not anything uniquely horrifying or shocking, in no small part because of how predictable it is.
