Really love y'all's interpretation and hearing you talk about it. Some thoughts I don't see enough folks talking about: Their High School's name is Void High, Owen's family is keeping him from Maddy (movie opens with his mom getting his attention so he can't talk to her) and if you pay attention at the fun land all the games are themed Pink Opaque, Mr. Melancholy, etc. I'm pretty sure he was stuck in a simulation. Every person and thing that isn't Maddy is trying to entrap him through the use of shame and obligation. The way no one ages, how his breathing changes, etc. He's slowly suffocating because Mr. Melancholy buried them alive. Maddy also talks about how time works different in the Midnight Realm, so the entire movie is Isabelle slowly suffocating to death. Everything Maddy said about them being trapped was true.
@TheFilmScoop
3 ай бұрын
Thank you 🙏🏼 and that’s some great insight as well. So cool how there’s so many small details you can pick up on.
@TheGoosePewter
Ай бұрын
During the scene where you see the less scary version of the Pink Opaque, the movie subtitles literally call that Tara in the show “fake Tara”. Beyond that, the episode guide that Owen finds in the street is describing the events of the movie, as Season 6, ep. 1. One point I haven’t seen anyone mention, which I think is super important, is the framing of the scene where Owen tries to go through the TV. It’s bouncing between two scenes, the sequence where Owen rewatches the final episode of the show, after seeing Maddy in the grocery store, and he is watching in his bedroom. But then it is interspersed with scenes of Owen watching that last episode for the FIRST time. Seven years earlier, not long after Maddy disappears. That scene takes place in the downstairs TV room. But Owen tries to go through the TV in the downstairs TV room. What this means is that Owen screamed that his father wasn’t his father, not right after seeing Maddy in the grocery store, but seven years before, before ever being told he was truly trapped in the midnight realm. Meaning on some level, he knew his father wasn’t his father. Seven years before anyone said that to him. He screams into the tub, and it’s Isabel’s scream from when she is being kidnapped in the show. I may be biased as a trans person, but I’m very on the side of “everything is diegetic, and Owen is actually trapped in the Midnight Realm” Further corroborated by a Justice Smith interview where he said that the way they originally filmed the finale, Owen actually starts running as he says sorry, and escapes the midnight realm.
@belopp
3 ай бұрын
Such a great film! So much to take away from it
@cfor8129
2 ай бұрын
This film really sticks with you, right? Ive been thinking about it all day. I like to think that owen gets out of the nightmare realm one day. [Edit : I think the film is from the pov of Owen, and I think owen also wishes they knew more about maddy and got more time together. It's one of the tragedies of Owen's reppression, that we never fully learn what maddy's life looks like.]
@TheFilmScoop
2 ай бұрын
Yeah I was thinking about it for weeks.
@gourmetghost
3 ай бұрын
sorry but you cannot convince me this movie is anything more than mediocre at best...it was like a discount It Follows
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