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Post by Marv on Mar 4, 2017 19:00:27 GMT
I developed a habit of looking to the background in movies and pictures for random details. So If there's a window in the background or the point of focus is to the left or right on screen, I'll constantly glance to the other side waiting for something to fill that void. There's also the moment at the end where our survivors are walking down the street hand in hand and there's a man about a block behind following them. Suggesting the Nightmare may not be over.
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Post by northernlad on Mar 4, 2017 19:10:39 GMT
I developed a habit of looking to the background in movies and pictures for random details. So If there's a window in the background or the point of focus is to the left or right on screen, I'll constantly glance to the other side waiting for something to fill that void. There's also the moment at the end where our survivors are walking down the street hand in hand and there's a man about a block behind following them. Suggesting the Nightmare may not be over. Oh yeah, the man following them at the end...I definitely saw that. And I definitely think it's implied that "it" is going to be following them for awhile. I'm away from home right now but when I get home, I'm definitely watching this movie again!
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Post by Reynard on Mar 4, 2017 19:24:17 GMT
I developed a habit of looking to the background in movies and pictures for random details. So If there's a window in the background or the point of focus is to the left or right on screen, I'll constantly glance to the other side waiting for something to fill that void. There's also the moment at the end where our survivors are walking down the street hand in hand and there's a man about a block behind following them. Suggesting the Nightmare may not be over. You must love Stanley Kubrick movies then. Eyes Wide Shut especially is a real treasure trove for interesting background details that add a lot to the story.
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Post by Flynn on Mar 4, 2017 20:17:44 GMT
IT FOLLOWS is one of the very few horror movies I've seen since at least the year 2000 that pulls me back to it. In fact, I hold it up as one of the very best horror movies in the last 17 years, probably more. Considering the praise I just gave it, you would think I have it rated higher than a 7 on IMDb, but I don't. It just doesn't go where I think it should. It kind of fizzles out after a tour-de-force opening. In other words, I love this film, but I see it as having flaws.
The movie hooked me after the scene at the community college. It hit me how "It" was a metaphor for anything that follows you around, something that you can never escape: personal mistakes, choices, debt, taxes, the burdens of adulthood. Anything, really. Jay will never be able to have a normal life because she will always have to be prepared for "It" coming back to her.
It's a movie that also reminds me how much money so many people seem to have now. "Take a flight to an overseas country," so many people say. Well, yeah, if you have money, that's possible, but Jay isn't from an upper middle-class family. She doesn't even have a car. She's fairly poor. I relate to that. I could fly somewhere now on a moment's notice, but not when I was 19. I didn't have that kind of money, and neither did my family. You had to fend for yourself, and that's what Jay does. That people think flying is a possibility for her suggests that they are not seeing her poverty, and I find that a little sad.
There were also a lot of IMDb comments that she should just have sex with a random person to get rid of the curse. That is an option presented in the film, and I like that the film raises this moral question. Jay having sex with someone is the same as killing them. But doing that would eventually way heavily on the soul and it would fundamentally change who she is. Is she prepared to go in that direction? I do wish the scene with the guys on the boat had been handled better. I don't care if it's still left ambiguous, but I don't like the way it was left ambiguous.
Overall, IT FOLLOWS is a thought-provoking film for anyone interested in thinking. There are so many metaphors in this film for which meaning from real life can correlate that it doesn't really matter if it doesn't manipulate all of its themes well throughout the runtime. It's still worth a watch for those who want more to chew on than that which most horror films provide.
Highly recommended.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 5, 2017 5:18:41 GMT
Big fan right here.
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Post by begob on Mar 5, 2017 12:30:00 GMT
I do wish the scene with the guys on the boat had been handled better. I don't care if it's still left ambiguous, but I don't like the way it was left ambiguous. Yeah, I was not satisfied with that scene. The metaphorical side is well done - making it fit too tight often ruins a horror, like in The Babadook. If she can't afford a flight, there's always the train to Busan.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Mar 5, 2017 21:25:20 GMT
Saw it twice, giving an another chance thinking perhaps I may have missed something.
I missed nothing. There was nothing to miss.
Don't get the love for this lackluster, faux-"horror" film. It went nowhere and left me flat. Silly nonsense.
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Post by naterdawg on Mar 6, 2017 3:09:30 GMT
I'm watching it for a second time right now. What I can't figure out is, who are the people doing the following? Like when the main character was in her house and saw the girl in the kitchen who was pissing herself--who was she?
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Post by theshape25 on Mar 6, 2017 4:41:18 GMT
I'm watching it for a second time right now. What I can't figure out is, who are the people doing the following? Like when the main character was in her house and saw the girl in the kitchen who was pissing herself--who was she? I'm pretty sure it was just random people. The only one that was of any significance was the man at the pool.
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Post by Marv on Mar 7, 2017 1:08:37 GMT
I'm watching it for a second time right now. What I can't figure out is, who are the people doing the following? Like when the main character was in her house and saw the girl in the kitchen who was pissing herself--who was she? Some of them were from the main girls life. When IT comes through the door at the beach it looks like the little boy that was spying on her through the window and by her pool earlier in the film. It also takes the shapes of her friends at times. And her dad at the end. Most of the other are presumably either random, or if you want to think...previous victims.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 0:39:01 GMT
I thought it didn't live up to the hype. Hard to get scares out of a monster that moves at a slow amble.
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Post by simest on Mar 9, 2017 0:48:58 GMT
Is there not a moment by the lake house when It appears as one of their own group - possibly the sister with glasses - who is also running from the scene with the main character?
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Post by Flynn on Mar 9, 2017 0:58:50 GMT
Is there not a moment by the lake house when It appears as one of their own group - possibly the sister with glasses - who is also running from the scene with the main character? Correct. It takes the form of the nerdy, glasses-wearing friend (not sister) Yara at a lake house.
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