When a plot twist happens within 10 minutes

[@SpikimaMovies]

Ahhh time to recharge my sanity again. TWhat film messed up YOUR weekend? :') Let me know. I'll watch it.

[@brycereid8680]

Rewatched Talk to Me, loved every second during hated every second after 💀

[@JimmyDeNiro83]

For me it was Oddity that messed me up recently, an excellent irish film from 2024 !

[@TheAiket]

I watched lots of horrors, and only one affected me in that way - Asylum Blackout (2011)

[@bharathir6820]

Rosemary baby

[@austincde]

Brokeback mountain actually, because the minute I finished watching it news broke that Heath Ledger had died maybe an hour later 😭 also yes the idea that in Film Jakes character didn't survive but IRL Heath didn't was just, idk, it was too much at the time

[@Le_Lusk]

First kill in scream could be a early plot twist considering all of the promotion putting Drew Barrymore as the main character but making her the opening kill

[@lauralouwhooo]

That's because it's an intentional homage to the scene in Psycho, and the death of the advertised main character, a meta choice involving the commentary made by the movie itself 🙂

[@Taru1blm]

Dang bro, I was going to see it, but now I know she dies early on…

[@elle.mack.wednesday]

@@Taru1blm scream came out in 1996. You had time.

[@sarahfuller5482]

@@lauralouwhoooexactly. Scream was just doing what Psycho famously did first.

[@SimonPetrikov12]

​@@elle.mack.wednesdaypretty sure its a joke

[@ceciliadeveza1606]

The shot at the end where the camera was lingering on the water, my brain was screaming "and then? and then?" Thanks for bringing this movie up.

[@Liar]

That rug pull in Soft & Quiet made my stomach drop so quick when I first watched it lmao

[@brian8507]

When I saw that pie... I knew that these characters are heros. God bless 🙌

[@mr.switchblade604]

​@@brian8507 Dude you can do bait better than this, c'mon

[@camillej4593]

where could I watch this movie, kind commenter?

[@ethan1834]

@@camillej4593 Netflix, at least in the US

[@konkola3295]

@@brian8507umm

[@MiTexcel]

As a german, the writing on the back of the jacket of her friend already made me suspicious. "Liebe zu Hassen" translates to "Love to hate" in the sense of having a passion for hate.

[@buwumet]

Exactly, it got me thinking, "why does she have a friend who supports those kinds of messages?" And "that's a weird way Punks would phrase it" Only to see the pie and it all making sense. Not so much a twist anymore, just an answer to these questions

[@lilovs9952]

I’m a white Brazilian with no accent, so most of the time people treat me as a white American and they say the things they wouldn’t say to colored immigrants in such a normal way that all I can imagine is that these people act like this on a daily basis- just not around people that would care.

[@spuriusscapula6481]

anyone that thinks there aren't people like these lurking around all over the place are just lucky, i'm a white immigrant whose accent is accepted as being "ok", so i've been called "one of the good ones" by people that are outwardly nice and will then say the most vile shit you can hear if they think you are ok with it

[@grey.7828]

made up boogie man

[@roseredflechette-vidya]

i've literally found a couple in these comments already. they're bad at hiding it, but they do try.

[@NoYou879]

fear-mongering trash. stop making up reasons to justify hurting people

[@zerazukin]

ive had pretty much the same experiences for the same reasons, its fucking wild

[@bentowle3478]

Could it be that you're looking for it and seeing it where it's not? At least some of the time? Food for thought

[@ratwhisperer8667]

I was just thinking about Soft and Quiet the other day. One of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen and not one that I can recommend unless I really know someone and what they can stomach. The fact that everything happens in realtime with no cuts makes it feel disturbingly real, like you’re a part of the group.

[@reticoy]

One of the best shockinf moments is in a movie called "the coffee table" or something along those lines. Go in blind, And enjoy the hour long panic attack

[@jemcatunao]

Hi Spikma! If you love one-shot films with plot twists, I highly recommend "Anino sa Likod ng Buwan" (Shadow Behind the Moon).

[@ringkite]

Beth de A., the film-maker based this movie on the Central Park incident in which a gay black man threatened a woman's dog with possibly poisoned treats -- he was referred to as a bird-watcher, but locals knew him as a serial dog-threatener and the Rambles area of Central Park is a legendary cruising area. Not only that, but Ms. Cooper, the woman he targeted, was not even White. She was Jewish and lost her job over the insane story crafted around the incident. I'm no fan of Israel, but imaginary "Not-Sees" living rent free in the mind of a Brazilian director so she can hate on Whitey? That's fucking hilarious.

[@CelestialJayx25]

I tried watching soft and quiet and it sucked. In my opinion .

[@ianmorrow9300]

The doorbell in Parasite is the most intense mood shift i've experience in the cinema.

[@LuisSierra42]

That was peak ngl

[@AsphereLP]

I just love watching it with people who never watched it

[@soukalhonza]

What about The scene in Cure. The one where he finds his wife not quite dead?

[@ianmorrow9300]

@@soukalhonza Never seen it especially not in the cinema.

[@haroldjoseph8296]

Same when Jack Black farts in Tropic Thunder.

[@sawyerstudio]

Immediately thought of shower and head thwack on pole but for me any impact that doorbell scene has is easily overshadowed by the boy seeing the man from the basement for scenes that come to mind first. The mise en scene is outrageously good.

[@johanabi]

Same. That frame haunts me.

[@npc8261]

Yess, it's so incredibly well built up. And sometimes in my sleep, I see those eyes.

[@jneilson7568]

Same, thought of that first, it's like a frame from a Junji Ito horror manga.

[@slgdiversity6486]

Yea the basement man scene... It filled me with a sense of dread much more than any jumpscare ever had for me

[@vincentsperling4262]

That was one of the most visceral scares I've experienced in my adult life.

[@FrostRare]

Hereditary’s scene crushed me because it made clear that all pretenses about this family, all traces of normalcy, all illusions about family security were not simply shattered but DEFILED. Defiled. No redemption would come.

[@__________________________Fred]

"Love to hate" is a wild thing to have written on your jacket

[@justanothercreator2858]

Hi there. Ordinary german here. At first I was like "Hey that's german on her jacket!" ("Is this made by a german director?")and at the moment she took off that aluminium foil I was like "oooooooooooooooooh.."

[@Miss7ilac]

The German equivalent „Liebe zu hassen“ was actually a motto of the Hitler Youth to indoctrinate children to hate Jews. So if you speak German and watch carefully, you can get an idea of ​​what will follow.

[@natalieakins6658]

I love 2 hour video essays as much as anyone else. But you have so much talent to create videos that are about 15-20 minutes and have such in-depth analysis. I get as much out of these videos as I do hours of content elsewhere

[@tropezando]

For real! Being concise and editing down bloat is a lost art in modern KZbin.

[@Thatonehorrormoviefan]

Soft and Quiet made me so mad unlike any other film I’ve ever seen, I didn’t like it, but I wanted a part 2. I wanted to see the murderers be put justice

[@nettewilson5926]

Unfortunately that rarely happens

[@8teenOfficial]

thats a bad idea

[@levischorpioen]

We don’t need more happy endings, we need less.

[@lauren1779]

Same! You know a film is good when it creates a strong emotion (even if it’s anger) and then makes you want more.

[@FiercelyGold]

But doesn't that end suggest... Justice on the horizon? The last moments felt good, like we can all breathe again. No longer needing to remain soft and quiet to survive the attack. So many women have experienced something like this, and so many women have hid behind the patriarchy to harm others. No one is getting respected here. And the "justice" system can be cruel to survivors, and we don't need to be reminded that that also happens. Let's just fantasize and feel the relief in those last few moments at the Lake

[@TheBretchenShow]

Thank you so much for including Soft & Quiet in this one! I helped handle the publicity for Soft & Quiet at SXSW and for its release back in 2022 and despite how painfully nerve-shredding it is, it's always been one of the most impressive movies I've encountered in my career and it deserved much more attention and discussion than it got.

[@Vsmug]

That movie was good but holy shit all the characters was unlikeable

[@zzzyyyxxx]

@@Vsmug That's the point of the film, I hate how many people these days think that the point of a movie must be that the characters themselves are likeable, I think it stems from watching too much parasocial relationship content like KZbinrs or streamers and transferring that attitude to film or show characters.

[@trblessed1020]

It was a really good movie because it brought up feelings of anger sadness and then extreme hatred.

[@postmoon]

@@Vsmug thats the point?

[@koganenokoro4361]

@@trblessed1020let me guess. You’re no older than 20?

[@abstractmistique]

Is nobody going to mention Martyrs with the major twist in the first 15 minutes of the film? That movie is simply insane and the way the story shifted completely was so unexpected, shocking and so well executed. Can't believe nobody talks about this.

[@mrlightwriter]

You're absolutely right. I love that movie, but I know it's not everyone's cup of tea.

[@abstractmistique]

​@@mrlightwriterYeah, true but it's a shame though. Martyrs wasn't just gore and no substance, it actually had a good concept.

[@alexbennet4195]

No bc most people haven’t seen and don’t want to see films that are so horrendously extreme and gory

[@Malgoose51]

Martyrs is mega fucked up. that scene where the French lady shows all the pictures of the past 'ascended' candidates. wild

[@mrlightwriter]

@@Malgoose51 That's one of the best scenes, and the movie does have a lot of them.

[@jonathanvitesse9471]

if we did an early plot twist speedrun, i think the strange thing about the johnsons wins with an impressive 3min, and since he made also hereditary ari aster is really the master of early twists

[@sophiaandre139]

That movie messed me up. Man!

[@PauLtus_B]

It's pretty amazing how that's it pretty much works as a punchline to a joke, to then have it turn so horrific.

[@Seiryu64]

It's also a short film. So, that's kinda tipping the scale a bit...

[@elsagreen1476]

Good example, that one made my stomach twist. But since it's a short film, in terms of percentage of runtime it is similar to the others.

[@HandsomeFrogman]

So, in Shakespearean literature tragedies start with weddings or parties and comedies end in weddings and parties. It’s called Shakespearean wedding placement. Comedies and tragedies are the same movies told in reverse. Because the path towards unity is positive and the path from it is devastating. So, when the doorbell rings, interrupting the family’s little party in the rich people’s home, that is the exact center of the runtime. Down to the second. So, Parasite puts the happy ending party scene in the middle of their movie. That’s why the first half is a comedy and the second half is a tragedy. When I got my degree in writing, two years before Parasite, I wrote my thesis script based on the same inversion of Shakespearean wedding placement theory.

[@WanderingElla]

Very interesting comment.

[@RobTenken]

Compelling idea, but I don't believe the generalization holds up. I can think of many instances of comedies ending in parties or marriages (though there are notable exceptions). But in thinking through the placement of weddings and parties in Shakespearean tragedies, there are too many disruptions and alternate use cases to call this a pattern. Parties and weddings are sprinkled throughout tragedies. That weddings and parties are excluded from the end acts of tragedies seems far more a consequence of the number of, you know, recent deaths and murders. Not exactly a party atmosphere.

[@HandsomeFrogman]

@@RobTenken I hate to say “that’s quite literally the point” but…

[@blending_in]

​@@HandsomeFrogmanwhat do you mean that's the point? the person was stating their argument not reiterating what you said

[@HandsomeFrogman]

@@blending_in the point is that comedy lead towards unity and tragedy leads towards seclusion in Shakespearean structure. So, the fact that the last act of a tragedy is “not exactly party atmosphere” is the point. It’s a byproduct of the structure of a tragedy.

[@yurivaz108]

They weren't just racists, they were specifically fascist racists, they have an agenda not only to uphold the structure of racism but also to raise the foundation of that structure somehow

[@yurivaz108]

Btw I don't think you don't know that, I'm just reiterating that racism is everpresent, this is a little different.

[@grey.7828]

just another White people bad liberal ghost story cringe movie

[@1r0zz]

@@yurivaz108 I was ok, partially as it is imprecise, but then you go and say “racism is everywhere!!1!”

[@yurivaz108]

@@1r0zz Racism is structural and therefore underneath every aspect of our lives, yes

[@1r0zz]

@@yurivaz108 Racism is a socio-political construct, often used to sway masses in demagogic ideologies to accept or practice demeaning ideas or action to other people. Examples: Fascisms, Political Polarization, PsyOp ecc. What you are talking about, maybe, is “xenophobia” that, in socio-psychology, is the conflict generated between perceived in-groups and out-groups.

[@e_n_hand]

I also wonder if part of the reason Soft & Quiet uses the one-take is because you can't look away. Once you know what's happening you can't go back to pretending it isn't. You can try, you can physically turn your back, but it will still be there. You will still know that it is there. I also think that is where some of the discomfort comes from. Because it all but throws the pie at your face you can't just look away. You can turn it off, but it will still be there.

[@Miscellaneous_Minx]

I decided to watch Soft and Quiet before I started the video (technically at 2:57) and H O L Y S H I T

[@younggooni14]

I was gonna do the same thing, good call lol

[@Miscellaneous_Minx]

Highly recommended but BE WARNED

[@CesRaisons]

My favourite part of parasite is the wagyu beef and cheap noodle meal. It shows how the families are different and usually shouldn’t mix, yet they do just as the wagyu and penny noodles do

[@sawyerstudio]

The scene that 100% comes to mind first for me is and will always be the basement creeper glancing over the edge of the entryway. How could it be anything else for anyone 😅

[@CesRaisons]

@@sawyerstudio I forgot about that scene, another scene I think about is the rich parents acting like the wife is poor and prostituting herself for money to the husband. While one of the poor parents is under them, who lives in that reality and not using it as a "fantasy"

[@DeathFORcameO]

Nah, the noodle scene is not about that at all, only westerners sees it that way. It's just about asian culture nothing deep really.

[@kuppikahvikeisari9120]

​@@DeathFORcameOThe noodle dish is normal home food even poor people eat, but not with waguy beef, it's waaaaayyy too expensive meat to be used in such a way. It's the contrast of this expensive luxury item used in such a casual way. So no, it's not just an Asian thing.

[@aimeekatz]

Side note: that recipe SLAPS. My family and I eat it all the time ever since seeing Parasite. Except not with wagyu obv 💀

[@travisbewley7084]

My favorite has to be Barbarian. The movie starting so grounded and relateable like a tense thriller, then hinting to a torture horror, only to blindside you with the goddamn movie monster.

[@makiroll5827]

Oh my god!! That movie is one of my favs too, i was so horrified by the ‘mother’ and the reveal of her backstory was so upsetting….

[@TheRealQueenCobra]

My fav movie by far!!! I actually liked the "mom" figure. I hate how horror is 99% female torture, it was nice to see it be males this time.

[@yung_wise5861]

That was just a dumb statement but okay ​@@TheRealQueenCobra

[@yung_wise5861]

​@@TheRealQueenCobrawatch more films

[@BreakfastKing420]

Especially with having it cut to Justin long on the freeway after the characters we’ve been following for half the movie are seemingly killed or in one’s case we literally see their head bashed against the wall

[@justinholtman]

Spikima makes the absolute best movie essays I’ve ever seen. So underrated. Yea there’s ur commentary but he’s on another level.

[@CorbCorbin]

Ever see any of Every Frame a Painting videos? The channel just started uploading the past month or so, after like 7 years. If you haven’t, check those old videos out. You’ll see a lot of stuff that are common to some other channels on films.

[@lawofgravity1979]

@@CorbCorbinI immediately thought of EFAP. This is a very similar structure (but still great on its own)

[@justinholtman]

@@CorbCorbin nah but thanks def will check it out for sure.

[@bollocks42o]

forreal he is awesome - final girl studios is another great one

[@CorbCorbin]

@@lawofgravity1979 I concur.

[@clearly9321]

I stopped the video and watched Soft and Quiet the moment you mentioned, before continuing. Not only did I get absolutely blindsided by the pie, but I found it so fucking horrifying.

[@clearly9321]

The whole film, i mean. jesus

[@r-m-a]

I did the same thing and now I can't sleep lol

[@reggieaegis4346]

Did the same thing.

[@Alex_1400]

>absolutely blindsided and fvcking horrified by a symbol on a pie How do you people function in the real world?

[@nsahandler]

​@@Alex_1400 How do you function in the real world by thinking that racism doesn't have many faces in many places?

[@janieboy]

Its fun how the twist apparently doesnt work for a german speaker, the jacket of the friend shes chatting with gives it away already

[@Acid-Lust]

Maybe this has already been mentioned, but the Spanish black comedy 'The Coffee Table' ('La Mesita de Comer'), directed by Caye Casas, is another great example of a film with an early plot twist. I highly recommend watching it.

[@NutmegBGB]

Looked it up on wikipedia and *what the fuck....*

[@trblessed1020]

I looked at this movie just right now based on your recommendation and let me just tell you I had a very visceral reaction to this especially as a black woman

[@MENACE-km6bd]

Same!! I'm a black woman too and I left to watch it. I cannot tell you how angry I got throughout it. Cried during THAT scene, and paused multiple times. It's thought provoking and timely. Especially considering the upcoming elections.

[@BillykOTW]

@@MENACE-km6bd I left this channel and watched the film before he spoiled it. I was so shocked at the reveal lol after finishing the film I didn’t know how to feel about it. I hated everything about it but it was a pretty well made movie.

[@iamknife7]

I watched the movie with my mom and it's one of the best movies I have seen once and never wanna watch again.

[@trblessed1020]

​@@MENACE-km6bd I had to pause so many times! I was also fixing dinner during that time and my 18-year-old daughter was trying to ask me a question and I kind of turned and kind of said WHAT?! She looked at my phone and said oh are you looking at one of those movies that is messing with your emotions😅😅😅

[@trblessed1020]

​@@iamknife7same!!!

[@chrisbaker7583]

I immediately get a lump in my throat just hearing those screams from Toni Collette.

[@JackieSwisher619]

2:04 the point of this scene isn’t the decapitation, it’s the brother’s reaction to it, by deciding to drive away, go home, leave her headless body in the car for mom to find, all without saying a word.

[@theowlsintheforest6406]

The thing is they got this part from an incident that actually happened to a dude and his friend Edit:on the weird death pages on Wikipedia

[@iliketurtles6667]

I would argue that Charlie's death IS the rug pull moment of the movie. You might not remember the marketing for Hereditary, but all the trailers were heavily focused on Charlie and made it seem like she'd be present throughout the film, like a typical "creepy kid" film.

[@jordanquinlisk8145]

Yeah emphasized the clicking and made her seems creepy and when that got pulled out from under us, I personally knew I was about to either fucking love or despise this movie. And I did ;) ​@@iliketurtles6667

[@Alexandra_K_]

⁠​⁠@@iliketurtles6667 yes it’s DEFINITELY the rug pull moment! The scene isn’t “all about his decision to drive away go home, leave-“ he is so clearly IN SHOCK… lights are on but nobody’s home… he’s not “deciding” to do anything. When you watch that movie for the first time your shock is reflected in the brother. And his traumatized reaction just emphasizes how shocked the audience is supposed to feel about what just happened. Then toni Collette’s screaming brings you out of it and that’s when the devastation sets in. It was all VERY intentional, just to emphasize the shock and horror of Charlie’s death.

[@ChunAsperEndao]

@@Alexandra_K_ It's been really disheartening over the years to realize just how many people embraced Annie as the audience surrogate and thus decided that her perspective throughout the movie was essentially correct, especially when she was being gratuitously cruel to her teenage son. I keep seeing people explicitly endorse her resentment, and I can only hope those people don't have children of their own. No, the point of that scene is not that he made a conscious decision to ignore his sister's death just to maximize the pain for his mother. The point is that he was traumatized, and IN CONTEXT, the scene illustrates the fact that he was still a child and wasn't emotionally equipped to deal with any aspect of that situation on his own. Annie shares some degree of responsibility for Charlie's death because she forced Peter to take his special needs sister to a party where she would obviously be out of place and wouldn't be continually supervised. She placed that responsibility on his shoulders, then placed 100 percent of the blame on him for its tragic outcome, and used it as justification to disregard his trauma in favor of her own despite the fact that, again, he was a CHILD. This isn't to say that Annie is the "bad guy," only that Peter damn sure isn't either. Many viewers have a pathological need to pick sides, and in this case that seems to result in people missing the fact that the actual bad guys have practically zero screen time. I'd urge people to redirect their hatred away from Peter and toward the demonic cult that spent years manipulating and traumatizing the family in order to use its catastrophic breakdown for their own ends.

[@iK1L73rV2]

The only words I can find to describe soft and quiet are pure evil, but its also a very brave movie that has something to say and it says it very loud

[@buriednameless965]

Perhaps too loud. I couldn't take it seriously whatsoever

[@c.s2193]

I’m sorry but you’re not being brave if your "message" is already the cultural and societal norm. Racism bad is the most safe and easiest message you could pick.

[@npc8261]

@@c.s2193 kindly disagree here. Yes the main point of the movie is "racism bad". Yet where I diverge is, that it makes many more relevant points 1. Echo chambers and harmful group dynamics. I thought that part was really well written, all the characters somehow made sense in how they reacted and handled situations, probably more extreme than you would in real life, but very appropriate for a movie. 2. The "not persecution" of white crime In the end we can't be sure, if they will ever get persecuted. Leaving a bitter aftertaste, because we know it all too well in the real world. Minority groups, often get sentenced too harsh and too quick, whilst dominant groups have more leniency. 3. The generalization of all immigrants The women didn't care about, if the 2 asian they killed were productive or atleast adjusted to the society they were living in. The only thing they saw were immigrants and that's why they are deserving of some sort of punishment. For me those were the more interesting talking points coming out of that movie. And If you wish for me to elaborate further on one, I will have a great time doing that :)

[@gabriellacardosopaiva417]

@@buriednameless965Yeah, it was kinda exaggerated, maybe something feel off cause the performances aren’t great.

[@KairuYakushiHD]

@@c.s2193Yet, when people like this exist in no small number, how safe is it really?

[@soraskingdom2388]

I also watched Speak No Evil and Soft and Quiet in close proximity. I felt like an empty husk for weeks

[@llamabuddiestlye]

Reading this comment while watching Soft and Quiet before I go to see Speak No Evil in 2 hours….

[@shawnvogt888]

Always an excellent day when you post. Thanks muchly.

[@angeline7359]

The elevation of madness when I watched Soft and Quiet was insane for a 92-minute film.

[@deaditeera]

The thumbnail gave me flashbacks to the first time I saw this movie It’s such an insane film that I can’t believe it got made 😂 Good film tho!

[@imaginnova]

First, thanks so much for hopping back on, place wasn't the same without you! But bruh, what about THE EMPTY MAN!?!? inCREDible film, and it pulls the rug also after like 20 minutes in the BEST way

[@beesayshello]

The Empty Man is severely underrated. Shame how bad it bombed and how it’s still not gotten any traction. I loved it.

[@imaginnova]

@@beesayshello Riiiiight, I only found it streaming recently, don't know how it flew under my radar but I was just so impressed coming into it blind

[@bentowle3478]

That movie had so much potential, but squandered the final act. Such a shame

[@haranobara]

this is one of the only times i felt like i've seen a group of well-written female antagonists that doesn't revolve around fighting or getting approval of men. all i could think about during the initial meeting (disregarding the topic of conversation) was "oh my god this is exactly how women in nearly every new group settings i've ever been to act and talk!". i don't know if most of the critics who thinks it's unrealistic are not women, but i thought all the mannerisms were spot on and very nuanced. by the time the SA and murder scene happened, i was almost certain this was written and directed by a woman. and i was right! really looking forward to seeing her upcoming projects. kudos to the phenomenal actresses as well.

[@alemonyoyo69420]

When I heard there was an SA scene, I immediately thought that the film was written by a man. You cannot believe the sigh I let out when I found out it wasn't hahah!

[@QuestionQuestionMark]

@@alemonyoyo69420 What? So men can't write movies and media about SA? As if we don't experience it too? What the actual f*ck are you on about?

[@alemonyoyo69420]

@@QuestionQuestionMark That's not what I said at all. I am talking about how often male directors put unnecessary FEMALE rape in media, and how it is often objectified and sexualised. I was worried this film would be the same, but had hope that the SA scene wouldn't be distastefully portrayed since it was directed by a woman. Never once did I say men did not go through SA, but this comment does strictly refer to the SA shown in the film, which was done to a female character. I'm not saying men can't write female SA scenes, it's just that time and time again when they have done so, it's in a disgusting way that clearly sexualises the situation rather than bringing out the vulgarity and depravity of rape. Men can definitely write rape of men, since they'd have a more informed perspective. A great example of this is Baby Reindeer. Maybe stop to consider what I'm actually saying before putting words in my mouth?

[@Star-pl1xs]

@@QuestionQuestionMark i hope u read QQM's reply

[@dvydvydvydvy]

Not trying to be rude, but if the takeaway from this film - after watching the bile spewed and the evil done - is that it passes the bechdel test… holy shit

[@Dave100DT]

Barbarian comes to mind too. Great video as always!

[@wrymbreath7079]

0:28 Easy all the movies start with p!

[@ecxstasy347]

Hereditary

[@Bug_doodles]

@@ecxstasy347darlin that’s the joke

[@ecxstasy347]

@@Bug_doodles damn

[@maleniabeardofmiquella]

Ikr? Phereditary is like my favorite movie of all time

[@Danaaaiix]

you might not see this comment but i would LOVE to see your take on Saint Maud (2019). i was so shocked at the ending i just sat there in disbelief for like an hour after.

[@tinycupsofanger]

Game-wise, in terms of plot twist, really reminds me of playing Sarah in the first few minutes of The Last Of Us then her dying in Joe's arms.

[@DrewDragoon]

If you were blindsided by that you need to experience more media. You know going into it it's a post-apocalyptic zombie game, the very first thing I thought is oh the main character's daughter is going to die

[@ultrabigfella]

​@@DrewDragooncan you name another example? A loved one dying in the opening is common, but specifically a young child set up as the protagonist?

[@Jobe-13]

Get Out’s twist made me most disturbed, even though it was very predictable. Just the way it wast executed still made it very creepy, with the few eerie warnings throughout the film adding to it. And the concept of and reasoning behind what the family did to people they brought to their house and how they did it being really fucked up.

[@NairamRys]

0:59 no.. it's the piano strings.. 😅

[@wulfgaen5888]

Yup

[@bunniemoon444]

😅 yeah

[@kd8663]

Same. But if someone asked me what the most iconic scene was I’d probably say the phone pole.

[@hystich875]

You always manage to get me curious about a movie with your title and thumbnail alone. When I saw this popping up, I was immediatly hooked to watch it myself before watching this video. It was worth it. Thank you for your content and for feeding us with these great movie tips all the time!

[@sethender443]

Dayum… that kid she runs into at the start of the film had blonde hair and blue eyes😂 Also, her friend had something in German written at the back of her jacket Also, the way she looked at the passing poc janitor. Crazy how small the details were

[@donnaherrera7415]

Toni Colette's crying after the death still gets me. Norman Bates looking at the camera... And yeah the panic scene in Parasite! I felt so much anxiety watching that scene

[@danielmunoz456]

My best friend and I have a phrase for this. We call it a "Worlds End Moment." I saw Parasite before he did and told him that this movie may have the best "Worlds End Moment" ever. If you haven't seen The Worlds End go watch it now. No research, just see it immediately.

[@PauLtus_B]

That's a really fun watch with people who don't know what they're getting into!

[@prasannabakare0456]

Never clicked so fast

[@phishpakora5403]

same

[@justinholtman]

Fr spikima is the goat of movie essays or whatever. He uploads I click lol

[@pdzombie1906]

Very intense film!!! I remember I had to speed up some scenes because I couldn't take it, but then I had to rewatch them because there were details I missed... Thanx!!!

[@Thatonehorrormoviefan]

I don’t blame you, I had to pause a couple of moments to take a few deep breaths and say “Did that just happen?”

[@daaniisiller]

Thank you Spikima for such an excellent video!

[@minumeyli]

i had to stop watching halfway through. i cant handle brutalization and it didn't feel like it was a meaningful commentary. just felt like torture porn. not for me, but love your videos.

[@senhorkorracha]

I thought of the phone call where the lady complains about the smell of the driver's clothes and the possession scenes, respectively. They're both points where the main characters surrender: start plotting against the rich family or are too damaged to keep on living.

[@cebolinhacalvo7393]

Is it even a twist if it happens in 10 mins ? I feel like it's kind of a setting or smth ? But don't mind me, i'm merely rambling

[@SpikimaMovies]

No that makes sense! A setup that is so unexpected it's like a twist- guess that's why chose the term. Just a simpler way to get everyone on the same page ;)

[@existentialbunny1408]

Yeah it's an opening twist. There is final or concluding twists, opening twists, and just your typical plot twist. You'd think final twists are more common than opening twists, but they are pretty much equal in presence too. Opening twists depicting a normal or mundane world setting before a major reveal of the "particular thing" that is different from the mundane we know is rather common in media. Like, it's a really common trope. I also wouldn't classify those moments in hereditary/psycho "twists," and for parasite, it is more so a standard midway twist or a final one as pretty much the first act of the film is long gone. I dig the analysis a lot, but the narrative element of a beginning or opening twist isn't something that is new nor revolutionary. Subverting the audience is rather an old narrative mechanic... The original french film Martyrs pretty much has an opening, middle, and concluding twists that have subverted the audience and radically shifted the direction of the plot in an extremely effective way. (Disclaimer to those who haven't seen it, it's a pretty brutal and difficult movie to watch)

[@exoxophanie4363]

When i saw Hereditary in the cinema for the first time, my jaw hit the floor when the Charlie scene happened and i didn't close my mouth for minutes. Peters reaction was so real and relatable, not being able to face the horror of what had hapoened .... it's one of the best moments in a horror film ever!

[@TalkingSoup]

absolutely insane that this movie was a directorial debut. the use of long handheld shots, the use of space, the lighting, the sound design...on a technical level this movie is a marvel. and to do something this brutal for your very first movie? de Araújo is going places. that said, this movie enraged me. i understand why the movie goes the way it does, but god, sometimes i just want catharsis. sometimes i just want the villains to die.

[@DrewDragoon]

Good thing the vast majority of films out there of which there are probably millions, feature the villains losing for your pleasure. What that film actually does is much more daring and brave

[@justinholtman]

Is it me or does speak no evil have like a re realease. No not the international version but I swear they released the mcavoy one. Idk maybe Mandela effect but I saw the movie long ago and they’re just releasing it.

[@TheseEyesSeeNothing]

You're correct. I picked up on the same story westernized for easier consumption with more recognized names.

[@mallagallabumbum8209]

Speak no Evil is a Danish film. The English language remake with McAvoy followed only a year after the Danish release.

[@lawrencecummings8534]

Just saw it on Netflix because of this video. As a black American I’m kind of sick of watchingn movies or shows with obvious racial tension but I’ve never really seen one from the racists perspective. Honestly wouldn’t have watched it without this video. Pretty good movie

[@grimaussiewitch]

I wasn’t expecting the pie’s symbol but I knew something was off when I read German in the back of her jacket.

[@elizabethlevesque6978]

The n*zi pie thing is so cringe though, especially compared to the three actual films with scary twists lol

[@grey.7828]

100% agree. this film is just liberal wet dream of how much they think NORMAL White people are

[@skyco5395]

​@@grey.7828 just because you don't know them personally doesn't mean they don't exist, it must be SO NICE to ignore it, like, geniuenly, I wish I could just say these type of people don't exist. but they do. white nationalist rallies and white pride and fascism are still a thing

[@skyco5395]

I know it makes you uncomfortable as a white person to see racism displayed, but it's honestly a good twist/shot

[@L4lN]

@@skyco5395we're not uncomfortable just amused how poorly it was portrayed 😂

[@QuestionQuestionMark]

@@L4lN You should show them how to do it better then, I'm sure you know how.

[@rvre]

This movie is so cringe

[@Kandirocks]

I enjoy the way you describe and discuss movies without giving away the entirety of the story. Your explanations inspire me to watch the films you discuss if I haven't seen them yet, so I can relate and understand from a different perspective. At times, watching your videos is like watching them twice - once when I don't know or understand the subject, and one after I've watched the source material, have an opinion, and watch again. Thank you for your time.

[@HRNNNGH]

I am suing you for the emotional damage I incurred while watching this movie.

[@TimoFromNorway]

Is that.... A swastika?! Ahhh i'm going insane!

[@julius-stark]

I saw this movie last year. Didn't like it. Not because of the subject matter, I just think the characters/dialog felt like something you'd see on Reddit. Though I do give it credit for focusing on a group of women and making them the villains for once. One of the biggest midpoint plot twists I can think of is From Dusk Till Dawn if you had no idea what the movie was about.

[@buriednameless965]

Thank you holy shit, I was wondering if I was going insane for thinking it seems maybe a little ridiculous that all the town racists are getting together to eat iconic swastika pie and talk about how cool being racist is at the Nazi tea party

[@julius-stark]

@@buriednameless965 I agree. There is a way to do this story in the modern era; a white woman says something off the cuff that gets her deemed a racist by social media, and she loses her job and social status and friends and family, but gets tons of support from actual full-on racists and, craving acceptance, falls in with them. And wanting to fit in, she gets involved with the attack on the Asian women but has a change of heart and realizes its wrong. That to me would be a more interesting movie than what we got, with very few changes and hopefully better dialogue.

[@grey.7828]

yes it is just a liberal ghost story to make dumb people hate White people. and if you read the comments it is working.

[@jaquelinerost8494]

@@julius-stark But they aren't "normal racists" as fucked uo as that sound, they are fascist nazis deeply involved with the neonazi movement. Everytime I see this argument regarding this movie i shake my head. You have clearly never met an actual neo nazi (which good for you honestly i certainly do not recommend). This is absolutely how they act when they're in an environment where they dont have to hide. I come from a small town in eastern germany with a long history of neonazism. Even today a huge chunk of the population are nazis. I'm talking showing of their swastika and SS tattoos in the summer heat, greeting their nazi friends at the train station with a sieg heil and seeing teenagers running around with Hitleryouth shirts at the yearly summer festival. All things that I've seen this year visiting my parents for like 2 weeks.

[@dyingforeddiemunson]

@@julius-stark i don't necessarily think that the movie needed to be realistic per se to get the message across, but the whole meeting with the pie etc. seemed a little heavy handed. maybe it was necessary given the one-shot format of the film, although i think another way they could've approached it would've been just to have these women meet up (as friends/coworkers/parents/whatever), one of them talking about some perceived "aggression" by a minority, the conversation progressing to more overt racism and then escalation at the store with the sisters. the whole nazi meeting does get this point across a lot quicker lol also a little tangent: with the modern era version of a white lady being cancelled on social media and then her spiraling down from there, everything you've said except that last part about a change of heart would be accurate to reality. unfortunately, they often tend to double down on their beliefs because those beliefs don't tend to be momentary lapses in judgement, but rather very deeply held ones which they now feel justified in expressing in increasingly violent and overt ways (look at jkr and her posse for example). not saying that people can't have a change of heart, but racism runs quite deep, and with immigrants being accused of stealing white people's jobs, being terminated from one, especially due to racism, likely would reinforce those beliefs. fwiw, i think cancelling people on social media is pretty useless, and often harmful specifically to minorities because it is often used to target trans women who are then forever run off the internet.

[@Kignak24]

The stairway scene in Parasite terrified me. 😄

[@ivanperez295]

I dropped everything I was doing when I saw the video notification pop up, and watched the movie. Honestly, the first 15 or so minutes of the movie were brilliant. It could've ended at the pie reveal, and it would've been perfect. It recontextualizes all of the main lady's interactions in the beginning, and pretty much gives us an idea of why "Jeff" might be in prison. Everything that happens starting with the grocery store confrontation was melodramatic and predictable.

[@chloeemmerson3016]

Soft and Quiet is one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen.

[@jaygarcia8508]

The opening scene in "Scream" was completely unexpected 😱😱😱

[@sirtorchington]

I think Soft and Quiet is a beautifully made film, I just absolutely did not enjoy watching it lol misery

[@odinsrensen7460]

1:50 - "Just under thirteen minutes. Title - "When a plot twist happens within 10 minutes" YOU LIED TO ME IN NEGATIVE FIFTEEN SECONDS!

[@opossummom]

Id maybe add somewhere in the video mentioning the more explicit and very upsetting assault topics and scenes, from what i've heard, this is a main reason people perceive the film as too heavy handed, some more tact in the handling of said topics for the audience's sake would have been helpful just so people could watch the film without being deeply triggered and retraumatized

[@s3.14dervision]

In Hereditary I pictured the scene where the dad is set on fire...

[@ocky88]

I think the twist actually happens in the first sequence. When she is outside chatting with the waiting student and she had him go reprimand a Hispanic janitor, we knew she was a racist xenophobe. The pie reveal only makes it clear that everyone at the party was, too.

[@k0st34ka]

I ended up not liking the movie and I can't say that I agree with everything you say, however, this video made me want to watch the movie so bad I had to stop the video halfway and go watch the movie right then and there. What I'm trying to say is, this video is very engaging, I applaud your ability to put together such a gripping essay

[@andr0id.eighteen]

Watching this video my first red flag was the german on Leslie's coat ("Liebe zu hassen"}- it literally means "love to hate" lol

[@WobblesandBean]

Guess I need to watch Parasite now.

[@DeathFORcameO]

Well, it's just about a poor family scamming a rich family, then there's a pretentious commentary about financial class, but it's really just about a guy who squats underground of the rich peoppe hoise and eats while they sleep, and when the poor dad killed the rich dad, he replaced the squatter and he lived underground till he dies.

[@kakashigf1234]

You know whats odd that i just relized? When its mentioned that the camera is filmed mainly one-shot for the characters it makes me think how narrow minded all of these characters are. They so badly focus on pushing the "white is always right" narrative that there is no way to convince them to change their mind, but still want to move quietly among society yet to when they feel emboldened enough to verbally and physically attack people outside their race. I think if this movie showed these people around a larger group of poc, they would mainly look at everyone with distain and disgust, but because they were going up again two asian women they felt that it would be very easy to overpower them.

[@moonlight2870]

I don't think neonazis eat pies with swastikas in them. Then agai , I don't really know anything about neonazis lol

[@42neddy]

It can be argued the swastika is not much of a plot twist since there was not a lot of plot introduced at that point, you were right to call it a reveal more often as you were describing it

[@lauramorkel5554]

soft and quiet is one of the most gut wrenching films I have sat through and yes I've done a serbian film salo human centipede atroz and trauma (never again) and even the coffee table but this film got me something so simple yet so real it reminded me of that scene in requiem for a dream where all the characters spiral into hopelessness I finished this and went into a dark corner and cried did I enjoy it? If I did I would have missed the point in saying that its a fucking masterpiece of horror cinema something one should at least watch once

[@christdolphin69]

such a dumb, awful movie. almost as bad as "karen" or "manodrome"

[@CV-lm7pv]

This concept is one of the many reasons why The Last of Us is my favorite video game

[@MrAceofspades627]

I was wondering waht this video would be about, and the title drop didn't do much to remind me. Then the second woman showed up and I went "OH, IS THIS THE NAZI PIE MOVIE?" And got excited cause that Nazi pie reveal is hands down the funniest shit ever. Who the fuck cuts shapes into a pie? Shouldn't it be a cake? And the image of someone reacting all "shock horror omg i cant believe this im so disgusted" to Nazi Pie is equally as funny.

[@apresmoa]

People make art with pie ALL the time...And that symbol is one of the easiest to make.

[@austincde]

I'll never forget parasite bc of the staircase scene 🤣

[@AlfoMedia]

really well-made video

[@scriptmonkey7812]

SOFT & QUIET could have made a great short film but as a feature length it failed on so many different levels...

[@JohnWilliams-wl9px]

That’s a problem with a lot of Blumhouse films. They work better as just shorts not theatrical film

[@ericoffill3697]

I didn't wait until this video ended to find Soft & Quiet. I can not thank you enough nor forgive you for putting me through this experience. All I can say is I don't know how I could've gotten through this in a movie theater.

[@olivialeezeh8076]

this movie was wild i still think about it sometimes

[@mlgsix]

Hey Spikima, nice vid! Random q but are you Korean? Asking because of the way you pronounced Bong Joon Ho haha. I never hear it said correctly on KZbin.

[@SpikimaMovies]

I am :) yes.

[@mlgsix]

@@SpikimaMovies Ayy same, that's super cool! Always love to see Korean content creators doing their thing. Sending lots of love!

[@onewinter9411]

When I first saw the pie, I got goosebumps and it is even more jarring considering how normal the scenes before it, and in the background the women are ooh and ahh like an SS pie is absolutely normal. If I accidentally walked into that room I would run far far away. I'm Muslim & Asian. Pretty sure they'd hurt me. (and somehow the media would still make me the one in the wrong)

[@eliquate]

I thought about the final reveal of the mother, the “ghost” the kid sees, and naked people in the attic 😢

[@jakebocek2949]

I found Soft and Quiet too catoonish to be effective.

[@devarcher7234]

49 views in 1 minute? Dude is popping off

[@bluecat3338]

I pictured a scene from the anime series Parasyte because I haven’t watched the movie and low key forgot it existed for a minute

[@chattanoogachop5154]

When I saw the "twist", thought it was so ridiculous that it made me laugh.

[@Djinnk042]

It is funny. Also ridiculous people like that actually exist. Some people don't "grow out" of carving swastikas on their classroom desks.

[@levischorpioen]

The halfway genre twist (yes, genre twist, not just plot twist) in Spring has always been one of my favorites, as well as the SEVERAL genre twists in Kill List.