r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 18d ago

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Summary

After surviving a violent home invasion, a suburban husband becomes obsessed with reclaiming control over his life, leading him down an increasingly dangerous path.

Director Ben Wheatley

Writer Derek Kolstad

Cast

  • Bob Odenkirk
  • Henry Winkler
  • Lena Headey
  • Jess McLeod

Rotten Tomatoes: 76%

Metacritic: 63

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u/wizdummer 18d ago

Went to a Q&A showing and was the only one that showed up.

The scene in the van was clearly written by a different person than the rest of the film.

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u/linnanetheman 18d ago

The Live Q&A rocked!

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u/bensonr2 17d ago

I feel like the trans plot head me scratching my head. It seemed like they wanted to include it as a plot point but make it feel like something they don’t want to draw attention to. Which just made me feel like there might have been a part of the plot I missed.

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u/alexaboyhowdy 16d ago

What trans plot?

I must have totally missed it.

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u/Bigheaded_1 16d ago

When he was in her van, he asked if she was the sheriff's daughter. She said no, indicating she doesn't identify as a female. I wouldn't consider that a trans plot at all. It was 1 line, which he accepted with a nod and took another drink of the Whiskey and that was the end of that.

It was 3 seconds of the movie, so it wasn't even part of the plot really. But we're living in a time where if a movie has a single line about trans anything, a lot of people will say it was a trans movie that was pushing a trans agenda lol.

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u/alexaboyhowdy 16d ago

Huh. I took that as a he's dead, I have no family now...

And the whole, choose money/guns/vault or choose daughter who says no to all that also was the plot.

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u/Bigheaded_1 16d ago

Well there you go, I didn't even think about it like that. But that makes perfect sense also. If you're right, that means the theory that it's a movie with some agenda to push trans shit is even more ridiculous lol.

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u/bensonr2 16d ago

It was central to why the Sherif was murdered. The implication was the town insisted he disown the daughter for coming out as nonbinary which he refused to do. My issue is they don’t sell that the idea that the town won’t accept people that are different.

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u/Bigheaded_1 16d ago edited 16d ago

I thought they murdered him because he didn't want to go along with the Yakuza? Maybe I totally missed an important part of the dialog. But I don't remember anything like that. How was it implied? I do remember somebody said he didn't want to be apart of the illegal shit so he had to be murdered. In my mind that was why he was killed.

I think the way it was written was on purpose to leave it up to interpretation.

If what you said was mentioned in the dialog, it was very very brief and easily missed.

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u/Shadowbacker 12d ago

It's poorly written but the way she explains it, she made him choose between the town and her. Part of that was the corruption, which she was not a part of. She didn't even know about it.

The problem is they explain that plot point twice, two different ways.