I'll first start with the good of the movie. The movie itself is really engaging, the characters are really well played as well. The jumpscares are good. The final teaching was probably that we should face our demons instead of always running away from them - and also how important it is to not traumatise people with our problems. So far so good.
The plot itself is cliche - ''aah some evil power is chasing me, no one believes me, i'm so scared and don't know what to do'' - it's fine, though, we are all used to this.
But the ending was so terrible. So, basically, she shut herself in in order to not hurt anyone. I thought that she was either going to a) kill herself or b) beat her own devil by moving on. That's what the story implies it's going to happen. Makes sense - that's what I'd try to do too - not drag anyone into a literal curse, and try to solve it myself or die trying.
Nope - she doesn't. She still regrets soft-killing her deadbeat mom 20 years ago. But how can this even get worse? She refuses to kill herself when she has time, and she drags the only person who has ever loved her for who she was and did everything for her - Joel. Joel, the guy who was willing to throw away everything for a girl that did not even belong to him - dies in the pursuit of saving her because she simply couldn't end it on her own. I have no problem with the villain winning - I'm all for it. But why do we kill Joel and let Trevor and her sister live?
And how about the thousand unanswered questions like what happens to the fiance? What happens to the sister? The little traumatised nephew? Nope, we cut them out of the story.
I want to end on a positive note. This movie speaks a lot about trauma and the damage it has upon us. The human mind is inherently very weak, ''inviting'' to negative energy, that seeing a suicide, a dead person or someone hurting in front of us could leave a permanent scar that will haunt us. The movie also shows that society doesn't really want to listen to sickened people - they just want things to be normal and to get things off their hands (Trevor) and pass it to ''professionals'' who just want to get their paychecks (her personal psychologist and her boss).
The plot itself is cliche - ''aah some evil power is chasing me, no one believes me, i'm so scared and don't know what to do'' - it's fine, though, we are all used to this.
But the ending was so terrible. So, basically, she shut herself in in order to not hurt anyone. I thought that she was either going to a) kill herself or b) beat her own devil by moving on. That's what the story implies it's going to happen. Makes sense - that's what I'd try to do too - not drag anyone into a literal curse, and try to solve it myself or die trying.
Nope - she doesn't. She still regrets soft-killing her deadbeat mom 20 years ago. But how can this even get worse? She refuses to kill herself when she has time, and she drags the only person who has ever loved her for who she was and did everything for her - Joel. Joel, the guy who was willing to throw away everything for a girl that did not even belong to him - dies in the pursuit of saving her because she simply couldn't end it on her own. I have no problem with the villain winning - I'm all for it. But why do we kill Joel and let Trevor and her sister live?
And how about the thousand unanswered questions like what happens to the fiance? What happens to the sister? The little traumatised nephew? Nope, we cut them out of the story.
I want to end on a positive note. This movie speaks a lot about trauma and the damage it has upon us. The human mind is inherently very weak, ''inviting'' to negative energy, that seeing a suicide, a dead person or someone hurting in front of us could leave a permanent scar that will haunt us. The movie also shows that society doesn't really want to listen to sickened people - they just want things to be normal and to get things off their hands (Trevor) and pass it to ''professionals'' who just want to get their paychecks (her personal psychologist and her boss).