If youve seen enough movies its quite clear he was gonna turn up to be an inmate... Thats what youd do in a script.you guessed the exact twist of the movie?
or you guessed that there is a twist?
because that is a huge difference.
If youve seen enough movies its quite clear he was gonna turn up to be an inmate... Thats what youd do in a script.you guessed the exact twist of the movie?
or you guessed that there is a twist?
because that is a huge difference.
If youve seen enough movies its quite clear he was gonna turn up to be an inmate... Thats what youd do in a script.
what exactly did that person guess?I remember watching it for the first time with someone, who correctly guessed the twist, and I was so adamant that couldn't be the twist, cause it was so obvious. Still enjoyed the movie overall though.
But you left out my favourite part. The part where he wilfully went along to get a lobotomy, and that last talk with his partner. I loved that.
trying to decide if that twist is more or less stupid than the book I read where a girl goes into a mental institution for killing another girl then at the end it turns out her sexy therapist is an alien from another planet and the reason they never found the "dead" girl's body is because she was actually kidnapped by aliens. hmm.
I love this part too. It's the best part of the whole 7/10 movie.
Yeah, by Dennis Lehane who also wrote Mystic River
I think the biggest hint to the twist was the over bearing soundtrack. Almost obnoxious. And it literally gets nuts as he walks onto the dock and on the island. Not subtle at all lol.No. Even though I saw the twist a mile away, no.
Yeah, by Dennis Lehane who also wrote Mystic River
Yeah this is sort of my stance on the matter. If twists cannot be predicted by paying attention, then chances are the movie has plot holes or contradictions in it.Good twists should always be at least a little predictable. The worst ones come out of nowhere.
Also, I absolutely hate the ambiguous endings where you don't know if they're crazy or not. Movies like that are a dime a dozen.
Thank you. They definitely didn't intend n letting him run wild. The whole asylum wasn't bending to his will, for the most part they were carrying on business as usual but he was supposed to be being monitored by his doctor/partner.They actually don't let him freely wander the island and so on. The storm interferes and shit gets out of control completely. It was supposed to be much more controlled than it ended up being. Chuck walks away from several situations because he's aware how dangerous Teddy can be and he's alone.
Thank you! Wanting this film to be about ambiguity over whether he's really a patient or not is weird as hell. It's not a whodunnit, it's a hedidit and he wants to forget that he did.As it's been said in this thread, the real twist isn't even that he was actually a patient, it's that the treatment worked and he is willingly going to get a lobotomy so that he can live without the pain. This is why it's important they spell out the experiment to him and us. His being a patient isn't supposed to be ambiguous by the end. In the end is not supposed to be a "gotcha" it's supposed to be a tragedy.
Well the twist is generally thought to be "he's a mental patient" which is fine.
so you guessed a twist.
but
that isn't really the twist of the movie.
everyone being in on it and letting him do his thing to trying to get him to snap out of it is.
Thank you. They definitely didn't intend n letting him run wild. The whole asylum wasn't bending to his will, for the most part they were carrying on business as usual but he was supposed to be being monitored by his doctor/partner.
As it's been said in this thread, the real twist isn't even that he was actually a patient, it's that the treatment worked and he is willingly going to get a lobotomy so that he can live without the pain. This is why it's important they spell out the experiment to him and us. His being a patient isn't supposed to be ambiguous by the end. In the end is not supposed to be a "gotcha" it's supposed to be a tragedy.
Yep. Full of great visual references, just Scorsese having mad fun with a superficially silly story that gets actually deeper in the final seconds (after the twist, not during the twist).It's a brilliant film, not sure what's so 'mediocre' about it.