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The Watcher (2022)
What. Did. I. Just. Watch.
Please. Someone tell me how I can feel better after wasting a whole weekend watching this. Oh and in the meantime help figure out what i just watched!!
1) first of all who the hell was john graff and why was he living with the pigtails neighbour??
2) Was there really a murder in the house? And why was the father drinking the familys blood? It is never explained!!
3) were mo and her brother in a cult?? We never hear about it again after the first episodes!!!
4) who was that weird teacher?? Was he the one writing the threatining letters to that other house?? And why... whyyyyyyy didnt he care when he realised who john graff was??? Hello?? Go to the police and tell them you have just identified a killer!!
5) dont even get me started on the murder... i didnt even understand why the police didnt talk about it to the couple in the first place. And If they were trying to cover it up why would they let the private detective look into it?? And she said the box had already been opened... another plot hole. And explain to me like i am five how cutting your face out of family pictures makes it impossible for the police to know what you look like... what??? What do family pictures have to do with anything? You have documents, you have an id, you have contracts... if they know his name, they know how he looks like!!! I could not for the life of me understand how they expect the viewer to skip over this detail like it isnt important...
6) also!! How did the alarm work?? Because as far as im concerned when it goes off and you dont put the code in it alerts the police or the company right?? Thats why it makes you feel safe. It doesnt exist just to start beeping!!! Plus the camera guy has access to all that footage?? Can any person working for a security company ascess the cameras from a client like that??
7) why would they move on from the fact that the camera guy installed a camera in their room??? And his excuse was so lame too!!! And you are still going to let him date your daughter after that??? He would have been able to watch you guys have sex ffs!! And god knows how many more cameras he added without you knowing... but they never worry about that of course.
8) something that also bothered me was... how is dean not getting fired?? Im not even talking about the racism thing, although I certainly thought he would be fired after that. Im talking about how he is never working at all... he goes to work for the first couple of days sure, but when things start to get worse he is available at all hours like he doesnt have to work at all. Especially when he supposedly does something that gives him so much money!!
9) oh something else i found so laughable... how come you buy a 3 million dollar house... but cannot afford TWO CARS???? Its almost as if they enjoy insulting the viewers intelligence!! Was there no production budget for two cars??? Did the writers really like the line "we have to get another car!!". How???
10) and this one is kind of obvious. Would any of you stay in that house for more that 2 days if those things happened to you?? I mean, if within the first days of moving into a new house i had a man show up out of nothing inside and my family pet was murderer while i was asleep i would have moved out the next day. But no!! And it gets worse!! Oh a girl in pigtails somehow got into my room at night and LAID IN BED WITH ME WHILE I SLEPT. I would be so spooked i wouldnt have been able to sleep for a month, much less in the same house where it happened!!!! And oh, we just found out there are tunnels under the house and a man living in them but lets not worry about that because we already sealed the entrance... phew!
I know that by the time i post this i will have thought of many more examples of how nothing in this series makes sence!! The more i keep thinking about it the more examples come to mind to prove to me that everything about this tv show is nonsense. Honestly however forced and dissappointing the private detective's explanation was i would have prefered it over the absolute terrible ending we got...
How can a director look at a final product like this and think "oh its absolutely ready for screening!
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Here's some help understanding the meaning of the movie
To anyone who has no idea what they have just watched here is the opinion of someone who read the book (which helps a lot in understanding the movie).
The book also starts with Jake and his girlfriend going to visits his parents house. The girlfriend had been getting strange phone calls for weeks from her own number, and whoever is calling always leaves a voicemail saying "there is only one question to answer" but she hasn't told Jake about it yet. When they get to jakes house the interactions are also odd but Jakes parents dont age like in the movie. When they finally leave they also stop at the ice cream shop and then at the school where Jake disappears. Worried , his girlfriend goes after him , and there are many pages describing how terrified she is while going through rooms from the school where only a janitor lives. That's when the big plottwist of the book happens. You find out that the girlfriend never existed, it was only someone Jake once met when he was young but he didn't manage to get the courage to ask for her number. You find out that when he was young he was a bright young man who worked at a lab but he lacked social skills so he was never able to make many friends, or even just interact with people, so eventually he quit and became a janitor so he could be alone. However he becomes extremely lonely, slowly loosing his mind while dreaming of the life he could have lived and the importance of relationships. You find out that the "question" mentioned on the phone calls is "What are you waiting for" (which unfortunately doesn't appear in the movie although the phone calls do). This is what Jake has been thinking for days while debating if he should or shouldnt kill himself. So he writes a notebook with this whole story of the girlfriend which is basically the book you are reading and he eventually kills himself over loneliness.
In the movie there isn't a big plottwist because it is much more evident throughout the movie that this is sort of a dream, or that it's not really reality. The girlfriend says in the end that she never actually talked to Jake indicating that they never dated. The death occurs in the dance scene but it's not as explicit as in the book. The final song seems to be about not giving up which Jake tried for a long time. I'm just disappointed that they never reveal what the question of the phone calls was , because it makes them feel pointless...
There are many scenes in the movie that don't happen in the book, but overall the story is the same. I believe they made an amazing adaptation! It is very visually pleasing, the acting is amazing and I loved the mixing of dance, music and animation when you weren't expecting at all.
So there you have it! I hope this helped some of you understanding the movie a bit better !