Blechhh! I thought HIS ending landed with a very loud THUD (as usual for most of his films)! MNS decided to subvert that and make family the end all and be all of existence. What the film DOES do, which pisses me off no end, is that Tremblay's novel promotes the notion that couple love - especially homophilic love - is paramount over love of family and triumphs in the end. Well, heck - bring on the bleakness, I say!Īnd that somewhat proved to be true - the movie does veer off in another direction about halfway through and (trying to avoid any spoilers here!) has a MUCH different ending, although I would call the book more open-ended and open to interpretation, and not necessarily bleaker maybe even more hopeful. Night Shyamalan claimed in an included featurette that he remained faithful to the book till about the halfway point - and then decided he had to deviate, since the book was far too bleak for the current times. I found the movie to be quite interesting and very well-done, but was curious that adapter/director M. I was impelled to do so because I was intrigued by the two main characters being a same-sex couple, plus I like both actors cast in the roles (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldredge). Horror thrillers are SOOO not my genre, and the only reason I read this is because of viewing the recent film adaptation on DVD first.
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