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The worst part of this movie is coming back home satisfied by the experience, telling people you just saw The Invisible Man, then immediately being asked how I saw him.
Not only was there invisibility in the guy himself, but a lot of abusers are invisible to the public because the only person who sees them is the victim (s)
@@Simplykiebby it’s ok. I survived and I stronger. This movie is what makes all women of domestic narcissistic abuse empowers us to stay strong and escaping is a reality.
This movie is one of the first movies where I felt the protagonist wasn't making stupid decisions for the whole movie. She was always coming up with inventive ways of trying to prove her hysteria and set traps for him.
@@rosestar1324 Because she would have no proof it was someone else that put that phone in the attic. It would have probably been only her prints on it, which would have made her look crazier.
@@angel251977 I don't think the phone being put in the attic's the issue. The photo of her and syndey sleeping together taken from a position that would require someone to hold it (wasn't it taken from a standing position in the middle of the room?) is what would be alarming, even if she seems crazy.
@@Vxylon It is very easy to set up a tripod for the phone to be put on. There is a timer on it as well which could have been set to record by her. So, again no proof and still makes her look guilty.
@@angel251977 My memory may be fucked up, but wasn't one of the first phone images slightly slanted? I don't know if it can be replicated with a tripod, but unless sydney is the heaviest sleepever I've ever met she wouldn't ever wake up to someone repeatedly getting up and laying down several times? I don't believe the angles of each photo were the same.
@@nataliealphonse4634 used his own brilliance against him. That’s the will of a woman when she’s been hurt and beaten she loses it and then frees herself the only way she knew, he was always going to find her. Trust me every abused women wants to know her abuser will never find her.
so basically, he invests millions of dollars into an ocular suit so he can become invisible. then he dies from it in the end. i guess you could say he didn’t see that coming
The movie truly lived up to the theme of a psychological thriller. Its absolutely terrifying and the paranoia is felt through every scene. It truly is a masterpiece of its genre
3 things I noticed while watching this: 1) When Cindy pepper sprays the invisible man, he stumbled back into the dresser and she (presumably) ran past him. But then, she's clotheslined in the hall, which would mean someone was in front of her. So I really think both brothers were there at first, then Adrien dipped out to leave and let Tom take the fall. 2) Cindy is wearing jellyfish pjs, which Cece had compared Tom to earlier, foreshadowing that it was him in the house. 3) When Adrian is the invisible man, he's quick and efficient with the guards. But the one that beats up James takes his time just to be brutal, another hint that this was Tom.
I love the themes in this movie. While watching for the first time, my husband asked me if I thought there was really an invisible man or if the movie was about Cecilia going crazy. There were times early on when I considered it, but her conviction and some of her points about Adrian’s behavior convinced me for the rest of the movie and I was proven right. Some of the scenes were so anxiety inducing and it’s really all you could want from a horror movie. One of the best I’ve seen in a while!
@@TheCoolCucumber That’s a good point. They definitely could have left it more ambiguous in the trailers, then the audience would be figuring it out along with the main character instead of already knowing what was going on. Honestly I feel like that’s been a problem with trailers. They either misrepresent what the movie is or they give away too much of the plot. Like they try so hard to make the movie seem interesting that they give away a twist or something
I love how the background of the phone Ceci finds is a very quick foreshadow to how the suit looks. Edit: Half these comments are asking me how I commented before this video game out. Guys. Pateron exists.
One of the greatest and most satisfying endings I've seen in a horror flick lately. I love the irony of having the invisible suit used against Adrian himself.
Movie: Adrian is dead Kill count: *doesn’t count Adrian as the first kill* Me: Uh oh, someone’s not dead Edit: 3.6k likes? That’s a lot Edit: now 4.4k likes, didn’t expect this comment to get this popular
Fun fact: A young Elisabeth Moss played Kimmy Ventrix in Batman the Animated Series, the daughter of a criminal who used an invisible suit to get around a restraining order against him by Kimmy’s mother!
One thing to notice is that he served Cici Sushi when trying to reconcile with her. You're not supposed to eat Sushi while pregnant, showing he doesn't actually care about the baby. He just wants it as a tool to control her.
If he were smart he wouldn't have offered steak either bc those usually require knives. Then again he never thought she'd retaliate against him. His arrogance pretty much got him killed
Dont you hate those scenes where someone is in a rush and breathing heavy they hop into a car very quickly and the driver goes "so tell me your life story, are you ok I feel like you have time to talk by the way you so quickly got into my car".
"You seem hurt. I definately shouldn't take you to a hospital in the most direct way possible. Instead I should take this dark road that I have never seen before and waste a lot of time. Is that a tall man that looks very insane and has a big bloody axe with him? I should talk to him too, he seems like he is friendly and open to conversations and not like a serial murderer or anything standing like that covored in blood out here in the middle of these woods. Oh God, who would have guessed he wanted to kill you and now is in the proccess of killing me, I definately couldn't guess.''
@@TheKatera4a plot twist it was a butcher that had to use a axe to cut a deer and the bloods deer blood he chased the lady trying to give her back her car keys and the lady tripped on the ground accidentally wounding herself
Yes same! The scene where she gets in her sisters car and tells her to drive. He is literally punching the window and the sister goes "whats going on" ... like god damn woman just drive... talk later
Its even more odd because the sister knew to come which means that she had been told Cecilia so the sister had to have been somewhat aware of the situation, so why the hell when you see you sister running to the car out of breath would you not immediately give the accelerator a good squeeze, Like your coming over in the middle of the night to pick up your sister, even if cecilia hadnt told the sister about adrian's abuse (which i do sort of doubt) you must still find the whole prospect a bit odd but bells should be going off in your head why shes asking you to do it so late to avoid him... then she comes running out of the darkness and then so does he, the minute has was coming full speed she should have floored it, though i will say the punching the window out seems a little odd, ive seen car windows take bricks and not break but a bro mans punch shatters the thing... yea ok... sure.
Invisible man is an absolute masterpiece. Fantastic acting, well paced plot, depth to the plot and character development, hard hitting action and constant surprises. Very refreshing and disturbing film.
His suit is still kind of futurey for me, but more realistic than taking a piss in a bottle, throwing some paint in it and some water and calling it a ''Magic Invisibility Potion''. Also, the fact that his suit didn't get harmed by water or paint or other liquids thrown at him was kinda strange. It seems like alot of technology going on in it that doesn't leave space for proper liquid protection. So that too is kinda unrealistic for me.
@@user-uj2cq6rd8n You shouldn't be afraid of an Ai, it only does what it's been told to. What I was trained for with sample data. Fear those who have an agenda that made this ai. Let's stick to reality life is not a movie an AI isn't going to "go rouge".
I honestly love the way Ceci’s sister dies the moment of horror and realisation that her sister was telling the truth is my favourite moment in the movie
I agree. My favorite in my opinion because it left Cece hopeless when the one person who was starting to believe her gets killed off. Shows how Adrian really does take away all of her options in the movie
The Invisible Man 1930: A Universal Horror Classic that was ahead of its time The Invisible Man 2020: When a classic meets Modern Technology, A remake done to great effect
@@groofay exactly! This is what being a remake is. Most remakes throughout cinema history are mostly just rehashes or just making a colored version of a B&W film. We need more like this.
@Miguel Messina he's said before remakes need to do something different to warrant them cause if they were to do the same thing as the original you could just go watch the better version. So I wouldn't expect him to dislike a movie just cause it used a different method for it's plot device if that were the case he would have hated my bloody valentine remake which he was ok with.
Honestly that just sucks. For over 10 years that's been an annoying cliche. Take some old classic and modernize it. Bat cave? More like bat cube. Supernatural? nah it's super science. Don't ask how some random old guy with zero budget on his own managed to make one of the most revolutionary feats of biological engineering that would require at least 2 ground breaking theorems to be discovered to even be theorized possible that no government or company is even close to doing. How did he hack my life and got access to everything in my town? Oh he just created a quantum computer in his basement somehow.
@@magnusm4To be fair though The Invisible Man got a modern re adaptation in the 2000’s called Hollow Man with Kevin Bacon as the titular character. In that movie they stuck with the “serum” aspect of Wells’ original story that’s injected into the body and an antidote that’s administered the same way.
I also love how if you listen closely to the scenes where the camera pans to an empty spot, you can hear the mechanics of the invisible suit, masterfully hinting at the fact that Adrian is always watching
“How many kills will this current invisible man rack up? Let’s see!... wait a minute” James has such a knack for making fucking amazing dad jokes, and I love it
As a martial artist and combat nut, I know a bit about incapacitation vs. killing and how robust the human body is. I think you made the right call on the guards.
In the dinner scene at the end you can see that it’s sushi and wine, two big things that can kill a baby if it’s still in the uterus. This shows that Adrian is trying to kill the baby and doesn’t want or care about
That, or he doesn't care enough to do research on what you can't eat (or eat a lot of) while pregnant. I've always interpreted it as giving Cecilia the illusion of choice, but still limiting her to what _he_ wants.
@@smoothyoda3581 Yep! Sushi, especially the kind w/ fish in it, is unhealthy for children in utero, and wine contains alcohol, which is also unhealthy for a fetus.
@@fandomcringebucket I’d think he would know given that he controlled her diet when they were together and a kid would be an easy weapon for him to use against her
Emily's death was so surprising to me. I had to pause the movie when I saw it because of how taken aback I was. I honestly expected her to live throughout most if not all of the movie since she was established as the first person to rescue and be there for CC. The public atmosphere, Emily actually starting to believe CC's story (or at least listening to it), all made me feel safe enough to let my guard down. Then we see the floating knife and not 2 seconds later Emily's throat is slit and she dies. The scene is so well done and the more I think about it the more it makes sense that Emily is the first person Adrian would kill, since Emily was the first to get CC away from him.
same. at first i didn't realize what happened, then my dad replayed the scene and for the rest of the night i was panicking because it terrified me so much
That moment you realize that killing Emily wasn't just to punish/gaslight CC, but also Adrian getting revenge on the person that helped her escape from him.
I personally really liked the off screen guard kill. I think it was brutal and darkly funny for Adrian to fuck with the poor guy that way. That scene was incredibly tense and the brief bit of comedy really drove home that Adrian was beyond insane.
I remember watching TV with my dad and a trailer for this came on and when the part where she throws the paint on him he said “why does he look like a golf ball”
@rosestar1324 the people not noticing is believable, you don't typically look around at other people's tables when dining, and staff have work to do, instead of staring at one specific table The camera thing however doesn't make much sense, but suspension of disbelief and all that
The opening scene of this movie is the definition of how to write a good screenplay. No dialogue at all but you are given so much information about the characters and circumstances. Not to mention the tension building was well crafted which led to actually good jump scares.
you can just see how smart and careful cece is from the medicine to walking like she was on eggshells, and how controlling adrian was to having his hand on her hip to all the cameras placed around. that's just seriously amazing.
The crazy thing is I was literally watching this movie last night and couldn’t remember if he’d done a kill count yet because I wanted to know how he would count Cece’s escape scene. This movie slaps so hard, almost as hard as James.
far as i know Karyn Kusama is in talks for Dracula and there are vague plans from the before times to start a whole universe because TIM was so successful.
2:52 I hated how her sister was asking her what’s going on like she couldn’t put it together that her sister told her to pick her up in the middle of the night while her husband is chasing her and as she’s begging her to go she’s just like what’s going on.
Thing is I think I believe it? A lot of the way this movie works isn't just an exploration for how abusers work but how bystanders treat the abused. Her sister is the type of person to want to have everything explained and understood before she actually does anything to help someone, and that's exactly the sorta person you run into all the time if you're trying to get out of an abusive relationship.
@@Exarian Yeah. I mean, you're being told to go to a friend's house to pick them up in the middle of the night. Reasonably, it wouldn't be wrong to ask a few questions before driving away. Neither became you drove away or someone slammed themselves into the car.
“That’s the furthest you’ve gone since you’ve been here, okay? So as far as I’m concerned you just walked on the moon” I’ve never needed to hear that more than now wtf it’s so sweet and supportive
As a person with an anxiety disorder, I get that feeling of dread, doing something as simple as walking outside to get the mail. Hearing that quote made me feel genuinely better about myself
At 3:40, in the news report, it says that the company Adrian founded is called Cobolt. That's the same company that the main character's wife worked for in Upgrade.
Technically the suit was already made (probably for the military) when Cecilia is leaving we see her walk by the suits in the garage. There are three of them. He was probably making them for the military and then decided to use them to aid his plan because as his brother says "You're the only thing that he can't control anymore and you know Adrian is always in control" though I'm paraphrasing.
After watching your summaries of these two movies, I have to consider the original '30's movie as the one I would most like to watch. That guy's megalomania was enough to drive him to murder over 100 people, but at least he didn't torture them for the sake of gaslighting a single person. Original Griffin was almost cartoonishly evil, this guy was just sick.
I loved this movie, I felt uncomfortable and on edge the entire film until the ending, and that's how it should be. And that restaurant scene... that's the most a movie has shocked me in a very long time.
I can’t believe I didn’t realize, it took me two years to realize that Adrien left those guards alive as eye witnesses that could attest that there was an invisible man, making a stronger case that it was Tom.
i love how this movie took the worn out "mad scientist" troupe and instead made Griffin into an asshole abusive billionaire, something that i think is way more impactful in current times
and relatable. Jerk billionaires abuse me all the time. Just yesterday Bill Gates gave me the finger for no reason, and Elon Musk threw a cup at my head the day before.
Dont read the book then. 😐. This is a vintage rewriting of an existing property and turn it into a Social justice warrior narrative Movie. Kinda like EVERY MODERN MOVIE does.
@@gggamer3851 ... Calm down, have some dip. It's a movie with a female lead, no SJW stuff in this, just an invisible suit and some pretty good suspense.
@@thebluebadazztm9697 if you dont like the troupe in a book and movie your remaking. Dont remake it. Give this The movie title "The invisible suit". Because it's not "Invisible Man". Its a SJW story based on Metoo and toxic masculinity. It only stole the name.
@@gggamer3851 Bit ironic how so many of these anti-SJW types get disproportionately triggered over specific themes and plot elements and then make asinine statements in an attempt to appear knowledgeable. Like, you spend so much time with "SJW libtards destroyed with facts and logic" media that everything seems like an SJW narrative that needs to be torn down and picked apart relentlessly. I guess everything really does look like a nail if all you have is a hammer.
Not flexing or anything but I can draw the invisible man when I was 1 month old. Edit: Since so many of you don't get the joke, let me explain. You do not need to draw the invisible man, he is invisible FFS. You don't need to do anything since I'm not talking about the actual visible suit. So technically anybody can draw him as all you need to do is do nothing. Since you don't need to do anything, I'm saying “not flexing or anything" to sarcastically flex that I can do something that easy at any given age where it would have been impossible. What should have been funny about the joke is that some pathetic guy on the internet is saying he can draw something something literally anybody can draw and ironically flexing about it. I'm losing my brain cells looking at the comments.
this movie is prolly one of the most well made horror movies that really facinates me. The fact that it had abuse theme (where some don't have the guts to delve into), excellent cinematography and stunning twists. It doesnt rely on mainstream jumpscares and mostly catches you off guard when you feel like you know whats going to happen. Not to mention the ending felt strangely empowering. And oliver looks so fine in that green suit too.
@@ilovepicklesandonion as a former victim of abuse (physically and verbally with abundance of gaslighting) these kind of movies with this theme makes me mildly uncomfortable. But the unsettling silence throughout the film kept me hooked and stimulated like a rollercoaster. And the ending was damn satisfying, it's like throwing a punch to those who tormented you before freedom.
@ you took it wrong, i am in no way praising abuse. All im saying is that its a topic not everyone is brave to discuss about. And hollywood is actually sexist to both sides lmao. And if were gonna be truly honest, some people are just nuts and safistic they do nonsense shit just to inflict pain to others
The movie does a great job of foreshadowing, even at the end when Adrian offers dinner, Cecelia asks for steak so that Adrian uses a big knife when eating.
One little Easter egg I saw (that has 100% been found already but I don't care) is that In the scene where Cecilia grabs the pen she calls Adrian's brother a jellyfish A couple scenes later when the man in the invisible suit enters Sydney's house, Sydney is wearing a shirt with a jellyfish on it And when Cecilia kills the man in the invisible suit it turns out to be Adrians brother, who she called a jellyfish. Just a little thing I saw that I thought was cool :)
Movies like these are part of why the Invisible Man is my personal favorite Universal Monsters, because OG '40s Jack Griffin and Adrian Griffin are like two different ways of creating good horror antagonists. Jack Griffin is the best antagonist for fun, over-the-top version that fits perfectly for entertaining campy horror, while Adrian Griffin is (imo terrifying) and fits perfectly for realistic horror.
Took me a second to understand, its actually funny The joke is that James said "Lets see" but you cant see what is invisible, so then James said "Wait a minute" Because he understood that you cant see someone that is invisible. Dont worry, you cant understand Every joke so sometimes you just have to fake laugh
As someone who was in an abusive relationship at one dark point in my life, I can honestly say this movie did a FANTASTIC job portraying the paranoia and anxiety of a victim. My abusive ex-boyfriend used to attempt to- and twice successfully -break into my house “just to talk” even after we broke up. Once I filed a restraining order, I couldn’t shake the feeling that he was going to come back after he said “he’d make my life Hell if I called the police.” I KNEW he wouldn’t, but in my irrationally scared brain it was always possible. My roommates and I chose to replace the sliding glass door to the back porch with doors with a deadbolt, and we bought blinds for the windows, which I could never have open in fear that he’d be there, looking in. The scene where she walked to the mailbox alone and her friend was like “You walked on the moon.” hit hard because for the longest time, I could barely let the dog out without knowing someone I trusted could see me if he were to show up. Those panning shots and wide angles that have you looking for any trace of the invisible man? Yeah, that’s exactly what I felt walking through my own home. You get this weird hyperawareness after a bad situation like that, and I think this movie demonstrated this very, very well.
This movie was my favourite of 2020 so far, such an incredibly shot movie. The shots where the camera pans from Cecilia to what is seemingly and empty frame? and you are wondering if it's not empty. Several times earlier in the movie I questioned myself to whether or not there really was an invisible man... Really expertly directed.
Leigh Whannell is probably my favorite movie writer and one of my favorite directors. I mean; Saw, Upgrade, and now this? Insidious was pretty good too but I didn't think it was as good as the others mentioned. Shame I read some people didn't watch this movie because they thought "the trailer spoiled everything".
