HERETIC Ending Explained & Movie Review

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  • @BrainPilot
    @BrainPilot  3 місяці тому +311

    Hugh Grant absolutely smashed this role! Best performance i've seen from him in years... what did you think of this movie? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

    • @MrDetinator
      @MrDetinator 3 місяці тому +7

      He better win an Oscar I don’t know if this is a thing but this is the first time someone talking made me afraid and think

    • @jacquelinesternberg8461
      @jacquelinesternberg8461 2 місяці тому +5

      Definitely a worthwhile movie, and one that needs to be seen on the big screen. Thought-provoking and entertaining, and I agree with you that you need to pay close attention to the dialogue and visual clues throughout the movie. Hugh Grant is terrific, and the girls were just as terrific in their performances. Clever writing, incredibly creepy set design and spare and subtle use of creepy music and sound effects make this one of greatest horror movies to come down the pike in decades.

    • @MrDetinator
      @MrDetinator 2 місяці тому +2

      @ 100 percent I watched this movie on my own and absolutely loved it I took my friends and they were just guessing the plot calling it a Reddit knockoff so glad I watched this masterpiece on my own some people just don’t get it

    • @GuidedWithLight
      @GuidedWithLight 2 місяці тому

      It was non memorable for me. I found it a tad boring. My boyfriend fell asleep in it 4 or 5 times. I’m glad Hugh is trying something different thought. He is so talented!

    • @corginut123
      @corginut123 2 місяці тому

      Well done. Religion really is about control. A classic example, you cannot have holy communion if you do not go to confession.

  • @Mini-c137
    @Mini-c137 Місяць тому +477

    the ladder transition to the minature was tidy, i love when directors employ beautiful transitions.

    • @pixxienix
      @pixxienix Місяць тому +2

      my favourite part!

    • @rgpl1790
      @rgpl1790 Місяць тому +5

      Amazing transition

    • @Deea001
      @Deea001 Місяць тому +2

      It reminded me of The Shining scene with the hedge maze. Loved it!

    • @Marcell2aG
      @Marcell2aG 27 днів тому

      That was such a dope shot. 🔥

    • @lincolntudor7515
      @lincolntudor7515 21 день тому +1

      Similar to camera work from Hereditary

  • @ProfessorSolenya
    @ProfessorSolenya 3 місяці тому +1507

    I just wish he hadn’t stabbed either of them. It would’ve been better if he had been a terrifying villain just by using his words like in the first half of the movie.

    • @Nick-ts1qc
      @Nick-ts1qc 2 місяці тому +106

      Totally agreed

    • @KYoung-nj8ri
      @KYoung-nj8ri 2 місяці тому +37

      Ya I agree. Oh well, it's what the director decided.. 🤷‍♀️

    • @builtbywalsh
      @builtbywalsh 2 місяці тому +196

      I also think if he hadn’t killed anyone it would have made the big reveal with the cages even more sinister, implying everyone always stays alive in that horrible state.

    • @DRMZBeatz
      @DRMZBeatz 2 місяці тому +6

      That’s what I said but it made sense on why he did it

    • @Nightshade1881
      @Nightshade1881 2 місяці тому +1

      I agree

  • @adamturner5743
    @adamturner5743 Місяць тому +363

    She died in the basement and never escaped. Butterflies don’t exist in the middle of a winter snow storm. It was her hallucinating post death. He never got hit in the head my the board either, they just both died and she hallucinated what her mind wanted to happen just like they had talked about earlier

    • @jerome-d5k8u
      @jerome-d5k8u Місяць тому +21

      what if the butterfly escaped with her when she left?

    • @adamturner5743
      @adamturner5743 Місяць тому +26

      @@jerome-d5k8u that would mean the friend resurrected to kill him with the board, that’s the part that’s making me think she definitely died. They also said they went through a tunnel to a bright light and she went through the tunnels to get out and there was a bright light that didn’t look like the sun when she walked away from the house

    • @adamturner5743
      @adamturner5743 Місяць тому +9

      @@jerome-d5k8u and the movie only mentioned belief and disbelief but never faith. I think that was the punchline and was left out intentionally because even he had faith at the very end when he asked her to pray for him as they were dying. There’s no definitive way of knowing or not knowing but faith surpasses both, that may have been the intended message

    • @mozzie2729
      @mozzie2729 Місяць тому +26

      She did escape but because she lost a lot of blood, she started hallucinating.

    • @GoosFrabaaa
      @GoosFrabaaa Місяць тому +11

      @@adamturner5743 No. Her friend just happened to have enough blood to move. The girl had a gut injury while the man was bleeding out from his neck. she could easily out live him. If we start talking about hallucinations, there are three people in question bleeding to death.

  • @stevemcqueen8695
    @stevemcqueen8695 2 місяці тому +784

    He killed Barnes because she would be less easily controlled. Paxton came across as someone who would easily be controlled.

    • @dawb86
      @dawb86 2 місяці тому +94

      Which begs the question, was Paxton's naive personality somewhat just an act she was putting on?

    • @bphifer
      @bphifer 2 місяці тому +148

      @@dawb86good point. Considering she had been watching porn, she may not be as innocent as she portrays

    • @jasipen1353
      @jasipen1353 2 місяці тому +54

      He only killed her because she said the secret word indicating the blonde girl to kill him so he killed her first

    • @fb101786
      @fb101786 2 місяці тому +58

      I like how in the beginning paxton looks so naive and clueless but ends up kinda bad ass.

    • @oBlvd
      @oBlvd 2 місяці тому +31

      @@dawb86it was all an act, remember she wrote on the phone “run?” She knew something was up

  • @Gatz_Gaming
    @Gatz_Gaming 2 місяці тому +500

    He’s essentially playing God for his own sick fantasy. The discussion around polygamy brings to light why he has an all women army in the basement. He Uses religion as a conduit to manipulate vulnerable, religious women. Through his studies he figures that religion is the ultimate form of control. Notice how Barnes who had to be converted, watches porn, and fornicates (the contraception in her arm) is essentially one foot in and one foot out. She’s a believer, but not a strong believer in her own faith.
    She comes off difficult to manipulate compared to Paxton who is naive, non confrontational, refuses to challenge Reed, not to mention she was born into Mormonism. Reed knew he was going to kill Barnes and keep Paxton as a “prophet”. The whole “miracle” bit was a plan that has worked for him in the past, but with the lady going off script and saying “it’s not real” put a wrench in things. He’s fooled others in the past because they saw it to be a miracle, assumed he was God and joined his cult. He would kill off anyone who didn’t believe or who pulled his card.
    Him saying he does this because they allow him to is the overall point. Do you believe something just because someone tells it to you. He’s a control freak who found a way to cheap way to kidnap women.

    • @missdaydreamss
      @missdaydreamss 2 місяці тому +12

      💯

    • @gyuzelbektay7414
      @gyuzelbektay7414 2 місяці тому +51

      Barnes figured it out at the beginning. She said that Reed wanted them to believe they seek death voluntarily by believing in his “miracle” and joining his religion.

    • @DuneCrescent
      @DuneCrescent 2 місяці тому +34

      The film uses it as an allegory for how women are the most controlled members of society. Which is also why pornography was raised as a subject in the beginning because a woman would be shamed for having that job where as a man would not. As for Reed, he uses his interpretation of the truth to excuse his own wrongdoings much like the Mormon founder he uses as an example. It is very much "Well, they're all doing it so how am I wrong?".

    • @tubes-lut
      @tubes-lut Місяць тому +5

      It's impossible to play god because god doesn't exist

    • @rey830
      @rey830 Місяць тому +9

      I agree. The comparison of the opening conversation about a woman with multiple sex partners contrasted by Mormons past of polygamy, a man with multiple sex partners. Why is one accepted as "good" and religious, the other as sinful? ​@@DuneCrescent

  • @MrBananaSamich
    @MrBananaSamich 2 місяці тому +363

    Originally when i saw the film i interpreted the ending as paxton escaping, with barnes actually resurrecting from the dead to save her and then visiting her again as the butterfly on her finger completely validating their faith and thus proving mr reed wrong.
    However, after viewing this video and reading other comments, i think ive been convinced that barnes was not resurrected and all 3 characters died in that basement. Paxton’s mind envisioned barnes saving her, and as she slowly faded to death she also imagined escaping with barnes visiting her as the butterfly. But, she died still a true believer and thus mr reed still lost/failed. I think this interpretation is more valid because it’s more realistic based off injury, the butterfly on her hand vanishes, and its snowing/frosty outside in her “escape” whilst it looked like summer or spring in the films beginning.
    Really liked the film, an actual original idea, all 3 actors were great, and it really kept me thinking about the end. Curious what others think

    • @ohitsyou..1348
      @ohitsyou..1348 2 місяці тому +39

      I like this interpretation! Not sure if you also noticed the shining white light behind Paxton when she “escaped” and walked through the snow. I think that was her passage to the afterlife. Then it shows the butterfly landing on her hand, signifying that she died.

    • @IndigobluBeauty
      @IndigobluBeauty 2 місяці тому +14

      I thought all three died with the one not saving her either. It’s bright day light when she leaves though they had come there in the late afternoon/early evening - I don’t think that many hours had passed…

    • @benaronow227
      @benaronow227 2 місяці тому +33

      It looked like summer/spring? Bro it was snowing the whole night ofc there’d be snow on the ground in the morning

    • @MrBananaSamich
      @MrBananaSamich 2 місяці тому +8

      @ it was raining, not snowing, but it youre right it probably wasnt summer or they wouldnt have had jackets but it definitely wasnt winter either

    • @nickmagwood9200
      @nickmagwood9200 2 місяці тому +56

      @@MrBananaSamichit was snowing once the man from the church started looking for the girls

  • @Thelatenightchipshopexperience
    @Thelatenightchipshopexperience 2 місяці тому +243

    If M Night Shymalan could still do M Night Shymalan

    • @ulrichk3677
      @ulrichk3677 Місяць тому +8

      ITS Not him
      He has only L movies
      Overated as fuck

    • @hamedhosseini4938
      @hamedhosseini4938 Місяць тому +4

      ​@@ulrichk3677 gosh his recent movie was pathetically cringe

    • @TheCuttyBrown
      @TheCuttyBrown Місяць тому +1

      ​@@hamedhosseini4938 Trap was a masterpiece
      Of SHIT😂

    • @vintagejords
      @vintagejords Місяць тому +2

      I watched the watchers before watching this and I hear it. 😂

  • @KyleVeatch
    @KyleVeatch 2 місяці тому +414

    When she finally escapes from the house she drops her phone in the snow and the camera pauses on it. Instead of the phone finally getting signal, even though the phone is outside it stays on "no signal" leading us to believe she didnt really escape. It is likely up to interpretation, but she could have died, or maybe she was living in a simulation reality like Hugh Grant said, that is why the butterfly gitched away after she saw it.

    • @lw3808
      @lw3808 2 місяці тому +39

      I like this angle of interpretation

    • @TueSorensen
      @TueSorensen 2 місяці тому +31

      I did not notice that it said "no signal". I looked at the bars and they were moving, as if there was indeed a signal.

    • @DuneCrescent
      @DuneCrescent 2 місяці тому +17

      I like any way you can interpret it tbh, because you could also see it as she did escape and getting out of the house truly made her free from the control she had accepted all her life. The phone with no signal and the butterfly being only in her head being emblematic of her newfound freedom.

    • @videotampa
      @videotampa 2 місяці тому +8

      I have a feeling this was a digital simulation in the future sort of like a 'escape room' that they were playing in. This movie by all measures could have the Black Mirror thumbprint all over it.

    • @tsac1374
      @tsac1374 Місяць тому +22

      I was staring at the "no signal" waiting for it to show any bars, and it never did. I think this is the right interpretation, she died in that basement

  • @ChrizCrozz
    @ChrizCrozz Місяць тому +194

    I just realized that mormon dude was in the movie for completely no reason.

    • @ulrichk3677
      @ulrichk3677 Місяць тому +48

      All These women in the basement disapperead and Nobody is searching for them
      Hmmmm

    • @user-im1jq3lw2l
      @user-im1jq3lw2l Місяць тому

      @@ulrichk3677you don’t think he probably looked for people who were vulnerable- people that were already easier to control- drug addicts, prostitutes etc . It’s likely many of those women had no support networks , no fixed address. It’s not unbelievable that there would be no one to look for them .

    • @hannahfuller9081
      @hannahfuller9081 Місяць тому +83

      The Mormon elder intentionally served no purpose. He was merely an example of how humans can follow logic & reason (I.e. tracking down what might have happened to the girls) only to be distracted by his religion. The story manipulates the audience into hoping he keeps investigating and asking questions, only to be disappointed that he ultimately only cares about his religious agenda.

    • @ChrizCrozz
      @ChrizCrozz Місяць тому +5

      @@hannahfuller9081 yeah we know, It was just an observation

    • @abhassingh217
      @abhassingh217 Місяць тому

      @@ulrichk3677 no they are searching for them in a completely different movie called "Silence of the lambs"

  • @mfcchris499
    @mfcchris499 2 місяці тому +219

    The subversion of killing of Paxton who seemed as the protagonist as well as the one with knowledge to beat him was extremely refreshing

    • @ell0hh
      @ell0hh 2 місяці тому +2

      😂

    • @qarcon3247
      @qarcon3247 2 місяці тому +3

      I honestly thought she was going to die because they kept showing her more than the other girl.

    • @collin571
      @collin571 2 місяці тому +13

      You mean barnes?

    • @AnimeIntroStyles4
      @AnimeIntroStyles4 2 місяці тому +16

      I said the same thing. Movies typically set up protagonists and they set up Barnes. So when she was killed first that made it more interesting to me.

    • @Reelion
      @Reelion 2 місяці тому +2

      I don't see how this way a subversion of any trope/expectation. Wasn't that pretty expected for this kind of film?

  • @Helmsleygirl
    @Helmsleygirl 2 місяці тому +183

    Absolutely loved this film! I went with my catholic mum and my atheist son and we had a fantastic debate on the way home afterwards 😂. So much to analyse and discuss and will leave you thinking about it long afterwards. The thinking man’s horror

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  2 місяці тому +30

      When a movie provides a good debate and discussion you know it's been a good one!

    • @tankman2715
      @tankman2715 2 місяці тому +6

      @@BrainPilotYeah I’m definitely gonna show this to my grandparents and get their thoughts on the movie! They’re both COGIC!

    • @alexisjones25
      @alexisjones25 2 місяці тому +6

      As someone who stopped believing in religion as a whole, the movie really scratched the itch I had in the most satisfying way. Would love if my immediate family loved horror movies too, they’re religious and I would’ve loved for them to have watched it with me.

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 2 місяці тому +7

      I agree, love horror films that rely more on plot and thought than actual gore. Realism rather than just pure fantasy. Not seeing the horror until it is too late.

    • @NjD....
      @NjD.... Місяць тому

      ​@@easyenetwork2023 "not seeing the horror until it's too late." Sounds like
      H🔥LL
      😬

  • @jeremyadams932
    @jeremyadams932 2 місяці тому +41

    This is a brilliant film. One point I wanted to add is this - he asks the girls about their views on polygamy and later he is revealed to have a room full of caged women. I presumed that he has been regularly requesting pairs of women from different faiths to come over for a religious visit where after a series of tests to determine which is more easily manipulated, he would get a caged woman to kill herself and then kill one of the two visitors while brainwashing the other to acquiesce to a life in the recently vacated cage in his home. Had Sister Paxton not fought back and attempted an escape, I imagine she would have ended up a caged woman. Back to the polygamy question, I wondered if he was asking about this because as twisted as it sounds, I think he considered these women his wives. Also, later one of them enters the basement with a freshly baked pie laced with poison. So, it's possible that his "wife" actually was baking a pie at the beginning of the movie as he claimed and this was in fact not a lie as far as he was concerned. What that means is when he brought them out sodas and a pie scented candle, it was all just a series of tests to get a better sense of where their minds were. He wanted to see if they would drink the sodas despite Mormons being opposed to consuming caffeine and he wanted to see if they believed him about the wife baking the pie despite evidence to the contrary.

    • @pichelen
      @pichelen Місяць тому +10

      Early on I wondered if he was going to collect them as wives due to his polygamy question. He also made a creepy joke about never having had a Wendy.

    • @Defender888888
      @Defender888888 Місяць тому +1

      i am confused as to why he wants to keep these women there in the cages. to use as sacifices to test other people faith? clearly not for polygamy.

    • @pichelen
      @pichelen Місяць тому +3

      ​@@Defender888888I guess it would fit with the theme of control and also the suspense of peeling back the hidden layers within the house. But I think the classic horror tropes used through these women let the movie down. It went from real to rediculous. The tests of faith through trickery could have been done another way or the women could have been more realistic. He also seemed too keen to kill the two girls in the movie rather than continue his collection.

  • @gyalsnextman4725
    @gyalsnextman4725 2 місяці тому +113

    Just seen this film and I couldn’t stop thinking about how
    The girl in the black chose belief when she had little faith then the girl in the lighter coloured outfit chose disbelief even though her faith was the strongest she understood she had to let go of her strong faith to see a different view.
    Hugh’s wore a multi coloured sweater which was also a cool pointer to his multiple views and his understanding of different faiths showing that he has no loyalty to one.

    • @jerichojones2722
      @jerichojones2722 Місяць тому +10

      i love that you forgot their names lmfao. ngl im the same way. ill watch a good movie then not be able to remember most of the characters names.

    • @kevincarter2020
      @kevincarter2020 Місяць тому +3

      they both had faith. Reed writing words on a door didn't change that

    • @gyalsnextman4725
      @gyalsnextman4725 Місяць тому +1

      @@kevincarter2020 yeah but the doors contradict their views on faith there’s a lot of things that go over peoples heads especially in that scene

    • @kevincarter2020
      @kevincarter2020 Місяць тому

      @@gyalsnextman4725 of course

    • @adamphillips9596
      @adamphillips9596 Місяць тому +2

      Ok so I was thinking about this scene too while watching and my conclusion was:
      It seemed pretty obvious to choose disbelief as hugh grant was already at this point alluding that his own faith aligned with the disbelief and the girl wanted to stay alive by choosing that door even though she still had faith.
      On the other hand, (and this is where I started to confuse myself)
      While they were talking in the room and he was explaining his whole spiel on iterations and control and only believing what you’re told to believe (ex, the existence of the wife).
      I thought to myself: what if he is secretly playing devils advocate against the foundations of religion and therefore trying to trick the girls into thinking he has no faith.
      And maybe the dark clothed girl recognized this and was choosing the door opposite to what was the obvious.
      At face value, There is no doubt that disbelief was the obvious choice in this circumstance after Grants rant especially with how convincing his writing was.
      However, if the girls chose disbelief it would prove his point that he can control what you believe merely through what he tells you or how he tells you it.
      Then I got too in my head and thought that maybe Hugh Grant would have already thought of this point, that the girl realized he was trying to control them through his rants to choose the disbelief door.

  • @evasirova3985
    @evasirova3985 3 місяці тому +114

    I've seen it yesterday and I want to watch it again. Like you mentioned, one has to be really focused on what's been said. Hugh Grant was terrific and terrifying. I loved him as a bad guy in Gentlemen and Undoing but this was that kind of charming villain you can't really tell how evil he is until it's too late. He played it so well with every fibre of his being. Ladies played their roles outstandingly well too.

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  3 місяці тому +7

      Yeah it was such a good movie!

  • @Fuelcut
    @Fuelcut Місяць тому +16

    I think the end of the movie is supposed to be open for interpretation. If there was one ending that was true, we wouldn't be having a conversation about it. The movie is about the way we interpret different beliefs based on our own religion. It's supposed to make you wonder if what you believe in is actually true or not. The ending is the audiences test of their own faith. You must not question it, but know it and be. There is no ending.

  • @sarahazura4681
    @sarahazura4681 2 місяці тому +75

    I believe the butterfly symbolizes hallucinations caused by a lack of blood or oxygen to the brain. This interpretation is reinforced by the movie’s reminder that such conditions can induce hallucinations. The film also poignantly reminds us of the tragedy earlier in the story, when the black-haired girl explains the near-death experience and experienced hallucinations too . In my view, the blonde girl did not survive the stabbing; instead, she hallucinated the butterfly on her finger before succumbing to her injuries.

    • @drakaba
      @drakaba Місяць тому +4

      Yes this is the answer,
      Nail on the wood is the key point, such a waste if Barnes use it only in Paxton's NDE.
      So Barnes not really dead at first, because the slit on the throat not insta death just make her loss alot of blood and in a shock, Hugh grant almost kill her instantly if he cut that arm vein,
      Barnes kill Hugh Grant with nail on the wood is real and died right after, Paxton escape is real, After escape because losing so much blood, she hallucinate about the butterfly, because she thinking about her friend, Barnes,
      After that she dies, because no one come, phone still have no signal.

    • @hollywooda111
      @hollywooda111 Місяць тому +1

      No, it symbolised reincarnation.

    • @paulyname
      @paulyname Місяць тому

      Wrong, it's transformation. I mean, you can see it literally. 🐛➡️🦋

    • @rebekahbeavers640
      @rebekahbeavers640 Місяць тому

      Good job Sherlock

    • @themadviking5746
      @themadviking5746 15 днів тому +1

      Its not a halucination , they saw all the other butterfly 's in the house , what were they doing ? They were attracted to the light or trying to escape . Trapped souls ? The fact she told her that's how she would return . It's symbolism folks .

  • @ST74UK
    @ST74UK 3 місяці тому +82

    I just came back from seeing it and I absolutely agree with everything you stated here. This surely has to be a career-best turn from Hugh Grant too?! Sophie Thatcher was also the other stand out, although all three main leads were excellent.

  • @petraleopold2713
    @petraleopold2713 2 місяці тому +37

    I actually think one of the main points was that antagonist had big fear of death hence why he had all these women in cages being literally at the verge of dying and him reviving them. He kept them in that condition so they would tell him their own versions of dying and having them in his complete control,also why he was testing Barnes and Paxton, psychopath's biggest fear is losing control,dying represents exactly that.

  • @kineticDrix
    @kineticDrix 22 дні тому +9

    Main thing i disliked about this movie was the blondish girl becoming sherlock holms out of the blue.

    • @dakshchoudhary7720
      @dakshchoudhary7720 13 годин тому

      Yeah people don’t change within hours there thought process don’t change just like that.

  • @IAMS1026
    @IAMS1026 2 місяці тому +36

    Finally a refreshing thriller that's original from my point of view

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  2 місяці тому +2

      Yeah it took me by surprise!

  • @monaaaaaLisaaaaa
    @monaaaaaLisaaaaa Місяць тому +8

    i think:
    She's dying and sort of dreaming/hallucinating that she's escaping outside ; as noticed, her phone as no signal means she's still inside the house
    The butterfly on her fingertip is herself showing to herself that she's actually dead (she said she would do that as a butterfly for the person will know that it is her)
    This movie delivers awesome playing and an excellent oppressive atmosphere

    • @elysegirouard
      @elysegirouard 2 дні тому

      I’m surprised this is the only comment I’ve seen saying this! Everyone is saying the butterfly was Barnes but I immediately thought it was herself showing herself that she was dying/dead. Especially given her reaction to it disappearing.

  • @slim_peach
    @slim_peach Місяць тому +7

    I enjoyed this movie as it gave the audience the opportunity to think and interpret the ending. That's what a lot of the new movies miss.

  • @akib2542
    @akib2542 2 місяці тому +125

    The girls shouldn't have gone down to the basement. They should've stalled for time in the living room until someone from their church turned up and the deadbolt door was opened before the next morning. Boring, I know, but that's what I kept thinking. Lol

    • @alikucuk928
      @alikucuk928 2 місяці тому +22

      Well then there would be no story line for the movie would there. Or in fact the movie wouldn't exist

    • @nicolewanamaker1842
      @nicolewanamaker1842 2 місяці тому +48

      He was lying the door could be unlocked at any time. It was rigged.

    • @konghere
      @konghere 2 місяці тому +21

      I said the same. In the room with 2 doors, it makes the most sense to fight for their lives at that point.

    • @akib2542
      @akib2542 2 місяці тому +32

      @nicolewanamaker1842 Yeah, I know. Deep down, so did the girls. But for some reason, they decided to indulge him and play his game. They should've gone back to the front room and waited it out. Worst case scenario, the 2 of them would have to overpower him and smash the front door down.

    • @akib2542
      @akib2542 2 місяці тому +1

      @@alikucuk928 precisely 😂

  • @knittygritty_
    @knittygritty_ Місяць тому +2

    I absolutely loved this movie! Theres nothing like watching it on your laptop at four in the morning. It really hit in ways I wasn't sure I wanted to feel but I feel like this movie has a very important message. I am so glad I watched it and I was dying for it to come out. To me, this movie was an absolute masterpiece. Everything from the score, to the cinematography. It was thrilling, slow but chaotic, and mind bending. I loved the ending because it gave the audience what they expected but not in the way they expected it!

  • @MidLoafCrisis
    @MidLoafCrisis 3 місяці тому +29

    It's an excellent movie. Good analysis. Loved the ending

  • @zenex7tj151
    @zenex7tj151 7 днів тому +2

    The ending is fabulous because it leaves it upto us viewers to believe or to not believe which is the base of this story

  • @tililatilila1957
    @tililatilila1957 Місяць тому +2

    I think the ending is a reference to the Butterfly Dream mentioned by Mr. Reed :" is it the butterfly dreaming of the man or the man dreaming of the butterfly?". Which is part of a Chinese philosophy about how we can't know anything for certain!! It shows how Sister P. escaped from there changed and her belief scattered...

  • @amidreams
    @amidreams 2 місяці тому +28

    Found it soo interesting too that the villan is a non believer so insinuating loosing faith means loosing humanity.

    • @artheaux666
      @artheaux666 Місяць тому +12

      He said he’s a believer in control and that’s the true religion, so technically no, he’s a believer in faith. Horribly so.

    • @clintgunter
      @clintgunter Місяць тому

      * losing

    • @baizuo_6246
      @baizuo_6246 29 днів тому +2

      Eh not really. He had faith. at the time of being alive he had faith in control and while dying, faith in a prayer of the girl.
      .

  • @pankajphysicsgulati
    @pankajphysicsgulati 2 місяці тому +15

    Effectively disturbing and shocking at times, Heretic pulls the strings on what faith and resurrection is with the power of Hugh Grant's brilliant acting and wit.

  • @LawyerDells
    @LawyerDells Місяць тому +12

    Schrödinger's Paxton

  • @alifpr
    @alifpr 20 днів тому

    just watched this film and instantly thought that it would be a great one for you to make a video on, went on youtube and found this 😂❤
    great video as always man!!

  • @blengblong01712
    @blengblong01712 23 дні тому +3

    I believe that this movie has 2 ending.
    1. Everything showed on the movie was true, thus Miracle (coming back from the dead) was real proving the existence of God.
    2. Everything after she's praying was hallucinations before death. Thus, the other girl didn't actually woke up, they both die, and the butterfly on her hand wasn't real.
    However, the lack of service even after getting out of the house and the disappearance of the butterfly at the end implies that the movie is leaning towards the latter which is the more realistic one, but they gave the audience the choice to be a believer by showing that happy ending.

  • @WilliamJames48
    @WilliamJames48 2 місяці тому +19

    Had me listening to the Hollies real quick lol

  • @DaveysRoom
    @DaveysRoom 2 місяці тому +22

    Bob Ross Monopoly is REAL!

    • @GeoffByrdMusic
      @GeoffByrdMusic 2 місяці тому +4

      Magnums ARE bigger too! At least that's what I keep telling myself.

  • @DGdescendant22
    @DGdescendant22 2 місяці тому +135

    For the butterfly ending, in order to believe in reincarnation you’d have to believe in life after death, the butterfly then disappears, implying she no longer believes in her faith.

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  2 місяці тому +18

      That's definitely a way of interpreting it!

    • @dawb86
      @dawb86 2 місяці тому

      Or that she's now at most agnostic....

    • @KYoung-nj8ri
      @KYoung-nj8ri 2 місяці тому +5

      Ahhhh I like this idea!!

    • @hbags21
      @hbags21 2 місяці тому +36

      The butterfly ending was in reference to her belief… she said at one point she would come back and land on peoples finger to let them know it’s them. Well when Barnes saves her then dies she does the butterfly thing to assure her life after death is real. Belief restored…

    • @DGdescendant22
      @DGdescendant22 2 місяці тому +9

      @ but the butterfly disappears

  • @sajnymmmm
    @sajnymmmm 2 місяці тому +64

    I interpreted from the movie was that
    In the beginning, the sisters talked about converting people and how many they converted. I believe Mr. Reed was trying to convince them that there was a "true religion" and trying to convert them to what he thought was the "true religion" kind of what their religion does. Skipping to the part where Paxton is in the room with reeds and his "prophecies," Reed is asking her what true religion is, and she says control. Mr. Reed basically says that she made her own decisions throughout the whole situation, and she says that he basically controlled her decisions. I believe this is a way of saying how religion controls people and the decisions they make in life because, throughout the whole movie, Mr. Reed was trying to make them question their religion.
    Now, when it comes to the part when Paxton gets stabbed and ends up back in that hole with Mr. Reed, she tells him about that prayer study and how the outcome of the study was inconclusive. Even though Mr. Reed was about to kill her, she still stuck with her beliefs and started praying. I took this as her rejecting being converted and sticking to what she believed in, and never giving up on her faith.
    Then, when Barnes killed him before he could kill Paxton, I took this as Barnes being a "Prophecy" because Paxton was praying during this time, and this was a way of god telling her that he is listening to her prayers and to not give up on her faith.
    When it came to Paxton, seeing the butterfly on her hand then disappearing. I interpreted it as her beliefs still standing even after everything that happened because of what she said earlier in the movie about believing in the butterfly afterlife thing. It also seemed to give her a sense of comfort and relief, similar to what religion gives to people.
    To summarize, what I took away from it is that religion is always going to be around, and it will continue to change, but no matter what, stick to your beliefs instead of letting people control/convert what you believe in. It doesn't matter what you believe in, but sticking to what you believe in will help you at the end of it all and the decisions you make.

    • @Pa1eblueeye3
      @Pa1eblueeye3 2 місяці тому +5

      This is how I interpreted this movie as well! Yea Barnes didnt stay alive, she resurrected for a sec. (Well… staying alive for hours in that condition sounds like a miracle too but resurrection is more like it)
      I would have to disagreeon the last part tho. There are so many cults like scientology so get the heck out of wherever u at if u feel like this is crazy

    • @TueSorensen
      @TueSorensen 2 місяці тому +2

      No, the disappearing butterfly was the evaporation of her faith! The whole point of the movie is anti-religious.

    • @paulyname
      @paulyname Місяць тому

      ​@@TueSorensenButterflies means transformation.

  • @123laurag
    @123laurag 2 місяці тому +13

    Loved this film, and agree with the review. Unless I missed something, I did think it a bit odd that Mr Reed didn't notice the Sisters picking up the letter opener, given his very close attention to detail throughout the film up until that point.. otherwise brilliant film.

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  2 місяці тому +2

      Glad you enjoyed the video. I know what you mean but a lot of it was about 'predictions' and control, and I guess he couldn't control everything

    • @dawb86
      @dawb86 2 місяці тому +16

      He knew they had the letter opener. He heard what the plan was, which is why he slashed Sister Barnes' throat when she said the code word. He just 'believed' he could more easily control Sister Paxton and the whole film is about how one's beliefs can bite them in the ass lol.

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 2 місяці тому +1

      He left it there on purpose or he had some kind of Short term memory loss. We know he is mentally ill, so it follows he either did it on purpose or forgot because of either some form of DID or maybe his OCPD. He definitely has OCPD, I think as well. Won’t be shocked to find out this film is a metaphor for mental illness also.

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 2 місяці тому

      @@dawb86You are likely right.

  • @simeonmaximofernandez9945
    @simeonmaximofernandez9945 Місяць тому +2

    A thought provoking movie that has many of ones findings in the search for religion. And I believe in the philosophy do good for goodness sake. Great role for Grant, Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East. Thanks for the video😊

  • @benarizola8453
    @benarizola8453 Місяць тому +2

    I saw this movie last night. These are the kind of movies that scare me the most because it's a scenario that can actually happen. No sci-fi explanations, or zombies. It's an actual real life possibility.

  • @Metanoiosz
    @Metanoiosz Місяць тому +1

    Love your explanation, it helped me figuring out more about this movie which i liked. I did not get the the double ending upon my watch, my brain have chosen one of it and left the other possibility completely out. So definitely watching again now.

  • @Dpdsl
    @Dpdsl 8 днів тому +1

    When reed stabbed paxton ,, that scene was so dreadful and more or less it hugely indicates that she's done and that's the moment i got completely understood that she has never escaped

  • @numbskull3965
    @numbskull3965 17 днів тому +1

    I just finished this movie and didn’t have a friend watching it with me to discuss it, so here I am. I grew up religious, Mormon actually, but nothing ever stuck. There’s things I like about it and I don’t bash it, even though I’ve been ostracized by my family(but that’s a whole other story). Anyways I went with the butterfly ending instead of the hallucination ending. I wonder if that has a deeper meaning to it, or I just didn’t give myself time to consider the cynical ending, if you will. Idk, just a thought. Really liked your analysis. Wish I had real friends to discuss ideas with, but hey. While we’re wishing I wish life wasn’t so fucking brutal!

  • @bigheadtrok16trokel16
    @bigheadtrok16trokel16 Місяць тому +1

    I originally had a similar interpretation with Paxton dying and imagining the outside scene as her "transition to the afterlife." After a second watch through however, I now think differently.
    I do think Paxton survived and I do think she made it out of the house alive. The final scene of her outside, I do believe is based in reality.
    Why you may ask?
    Theory goes as this:
    Paxton imagined Barnes "miracle" to take away the blame from herself and keep her image in the eyes of her god as "sacred." She did in fact kill Mr. Reed with the plank, but could not accept that it would essentially alter her entire image and faith to the religion she has only known her entire life. It's quite ironic actually, the whole movie Mr. Reed is essentially trying to dissuade them from what they know, but in the final moments Paxton still can't break away from the control the religion has over her. I think confirmation of this is the showing of the butterfly disappearing outside. Paxton finally sits down in the snowy forest and sees a butterfly land on her finger, obviously pointing to Barnes in the afterlife going to visit her friend. The next second however, the butterfly suddenly vanishes. I think the butterfly vanishing is a showing to Paxton that all her beliefs make her think essentially what the religion wants/controls her to think. In that moment alone, she realized that Barnes was never resurrected and she in fact killed Mr. Reed. I don't think the butterfly at the end was to represent safe passage to the afterlife or a matrix theory, I believe it was the true showing of Paxton's destruction of faith and beliefs. Everything that she once knew is dust to ashes. So whilst Mr. Reed did ultimately die in the end, he still technically succeeded in destroying one's faith in thyself and higher power.
    LMK what you think

  • @EbonyPenmarks
    @EbonyPenmarks 13 днів тому +1

    My interpretation: Sister Paxton did survive, but her hallucination of the butterfly is the sad reminder that “getting out” is not determined YET. She basically was tortured by someone who carries very similar characteristics to Mormon leaders/founders, and her, being the main character who survives is indicative of the very demographic she represents and the deconstructing/survivor path they take. I don’t this is a “Person was in a coma the whole time” creepy pasta ending. I think it’s a hard hitting ending to people who have deconstructed or left their faith with tough pushback.

  • @AgarioSplitrunner
    @AgarioSplitrunner 3 дні тому

    The ending: the butterfly represents Chloe and the butterfly effect. Barner reincarnated thru time travel, she is Max Caulfield. Mr. Jefferson tried to control the chaos in the storm. Is Paxter alive in the end? No, she joined Rachel Amber

  • @personanongrata987
    @personanongrata987 2 місяці тому +8

    I watched this movie yesterday in Yuma, and it stuck with me afterward while I went shopping for household goods. Then, in the parking lot, it suddenly struck me that Mr. Reed is a polygamist, which ties in to things he'd said to the two Sisters about their church's history.
    --

    • @yusefendure
      @yusefendure 2 місяці тому +2

      Agreed. A polygamist, a psychopath, and an abuser. That said, the vilification of atheists as immoral perverts is as old a trope as religion itself.

    • @jmz2144
      @jmz2144 2 місяці тому

      Did he make the women he kept captive as his wives?

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 2 місяці тому

      He thinks he is Joseph Smith is his psychosis and part of whatever mental illness he is experiencing.

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 2 місяці тому

      @@jmz2144Yes, they are effectively his wives. But he is a sadist, so he demonstrated that by cutting off the finger, or that is how I took that scene, demonstrating what he thought was his total control over his wives.

  • @Malpertui87
    @Malpertui87 Місяць тому +1

    One more point to believe that sister Paxton survived and left house. If she is hallucinating, why does she see a model house? She didn't know about it before basement. Though she could see it when she tried to escape and then came back...

  • @MozeePhoto
    @MozeePhoto 2 місяці тому +4

    Just got done watching this in the DMax seats, lil self date after not being in a theater forever. Your review on this movie is spot on. soundtrack was good, just wish it was incorporated into the chairs a bit more through out the movie but, it is a great movie i.m.o. The 360 spin view of the living room while in conversation, and the iteration part with religion, music, & monopoly was really well put together.

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  2 місяці тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed the video! Solo cinema dates are great, right!

    • @MozeePhoto
      @MozeePhoto 2 місяці тому

      @ I am not opposed to solo cinema dates !! 🤘

  • @roygbiv9038
    @roygbiv9038 2 місяці тому +27

    It was a bit meh. The trailer gave me the impression the environment was going to be this huge, death trap labyrinth.

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  2 місяці тому +13

      Yeah I thought that too, but I still thought it was complex enough!

    • @ewoutstorm4626
      @ewoutstorm4626 Місяць тому +1

      You thought it was meh? Everything from this movie was thought out in detail and it was really well executed. Just don’t expect high packed action/jump scares it’s just the dialogue and plot

    • @roygbiv9038
      @roygbiv9038 Місяць тому

      @ it’s seemed like something an high school edge lord would come up with.

    • @PeakDennisReynolds
      @PeakDennisReynolds Місяць тому +2

      Would of been a much more impactful film if it turnt out at the end he wasn't a psychotic murderer that had women locked in his basement, he was just a normal bloke that was sick of people trying to shove their religions down his throat and just wanted to mess with them, the ending just being him finally unlocking his front door after blasting their faith for the past 2 hours and telling them see ya later while they both get on their bikes pondering if he's right and their faith is nothing but delusions.

    • @ewoutstorm4626
      @ewoutstorm4626 Місяць тому +1

      @ that would be an awful and boring ending lol

  • @naomisilverfang7098
    @naomisilverfang7098 2 місяці тому +19

    I want to preface this comment by sharing that I have no strong ties to any particular religion, nor would I call myself an atheist by any means. *Spoilers* That being said…
    If he believed what he said, about the “one true religion,” and that by exerting control over the “prophets” was what they yearned for, then that would effectively make him the “god” of that religion in his mind, right? So in that sense, his house becomes a literal house of his “godhood,” within which he believes he’s enacting the torment on his worshippers as a he sees the wrathful gods of monotheistic religions have done.
    An alternative reading is that he’s the literal devil, coercing those of weak faith to his side before trapping them in a figurative “eternal suffering,” for as long as they live. Because he says that the “prophets” come to him, it creates a sense that he is doing this because he believes that is what Gods do and how Gods treat their worshippers. Thus, him being the devil in a figurative or literal sense, seems plausible, no?

    • @SIERRATREES
      @SIERRATREES 2 місяці тому +7

      I thought of him as the devil, yes. The image of the Elder leaving, in the snow under the glow of the street lamp, reminded me of the Exorcist, as an aside.

    • @adamw7411
      @adamw7411 Місяць тому +1

      I saw him as the devil trying to astray them both from the right pass by lying and using tricks. That’s what the devil does in all religious books.

    • @Vinogavin0
      @Vinogavin0 18 днів тому

      I don’t think he actually thought they were prophets from “god” I think he was using them to make a religious point. The ones in the basement had to be stockpile for his future victims in my opinion, proof of how he has exerted control over many others…proving his hypothesis that control is the only true “religion” as he has been able to do this multiple times. The stuff he says about them not wanting help because they chose to be there because it’s the same reason for them “drinking the koolaid” which was metaphor for people following their chosen religion to death or in their case the brink of death. He’s trying to prove further that religion is a means of control and he can do it too so does that make him God?

  • @Vinogavin0
    @Vinogavin0 18 днів тому +1

    I heavily enjoyed the religious escape room. If “God” is just a name given to the one(s) that push whatever religion to control others… then anyone who uses their free-will to control others can be a “god” too.
    Well religion is a moneymaking business with salesmen and many others who are “drinking the koolaid” and will do so until death. Religion is a means of control.
    Also best way to sell religion is through iterations of our world times best-seller, the story of “the miraculous man born of a virgin.” Loved that.
    Conditioning from the points of our conception places us in our own escape room full of intricate mind puzzles that are hard to solve.
    For the purpose of making the movie a thriller… my guess is that the writer of the movie posed a question “how do we get people to see how they’re being controlled?”… not sure but that would be my guess.

  • @daratemple
    @daratemple Місяць тому +1

    SPOILER ALERT:
    Here’s my take… sister paxton said that when she died she wanted to be a butterfly and visit her loved ones right on their hands. Not their face or shoulder.
    In the end, the butterfly is on her hand and then it’s not. This is up for interpretation maybe she was imagining it, or maybe it was real.
    As for the ending who knows she could’ve survived or died.
    Either way that butterfly could symbolize her faith. Whether it was there or not, the butterfly was in her hand because it is what she chose to believe.
    Which means, there was a death and reincarnation of some kind.

  • @matthewnewton8812
    @matthewnewton8812 Місяць тому +3

    There have been a few comments that I believe are misinterpretations here. First of all, it was Paxton who talked about watching pornography, but Barnes who has the contraceptive in her arm. For some reason a few people misremembered those as both being traits of Barnes. It does simplify the narrative because it enables you to see Paxton as pure and Barnes as rebellious…but in fact the characters are complex and both of them exhibit morally questionable (according to their faith) behaviors.
    Also, both this video and the commenters’ understanding of the film fail to include an explanation of the miniature model of the home. Paxton ends up running from her captor and she’s depicted fleeing up the stairs inside the miniature BEFORE she is stabbed and dying. So we have to presume it wasn’t part of an end of life hallucination. So what the heck is going on there? I suppose it could be the filmmaker indulging in some fancy camerawork transition…but filmmakers rarely include trivial or meaningless events or actions, especially in a film this carefully crafted. So I believe something important is happening at that moment. Hugh grants character spends the whole middle part of the film whittling these little figures and placing them carefully inside his diorama. I don’t presume to know what the heck it means…but I feel strongly that something important IS happening.

    • @curtf9813
      @curtf9813 Місяць тому

      I think Grant’s character is just playing God and his religion is control. The model of the house and his little human figures are a good way of him being showed as God..he’s like the big man in the sky with his little house replica.

  • @nathanslay6342
    @nathanslay6342 2 місяці тому +1

    Heretic was so good! I was really impressed with how tight the script and dialogue were written and I loved the story and the performances! Really captivating from beginning to end and it did not leave my mind when I left the theater. One of the best horror films in recent years!

  • @bRabbitHabit
    @bRabbitHabit Місяць тому +2

    Fantastic movie. A new favorite of mine. But one thing I found interesting and even telling is the way the husbands of Barnes and Paxton didn’t come looking for them. It was only a church elder that retraced their steps. In the beginning when they’re climbing the stairs, they said for every staircase they climb, their husbands become hotter. And you could see Paxton looking at her wedding ring as Reed started to make her feel uncomfortable with his talk about polygamy. Barnes also had a birth control implant, implying she was sexually active and as a devout Mormon, that would’ve only been with her husband.
    I’m sure the movie didn’t want to spend a lot of time diverting from the main plot, but the fact that the husbands played no part in looking for their wives just reinforces the beliefs I have about the way most Mormon men see their wives. Actually, I take that back. Most Mormon men see their wives as their property, so that actually makes it even more ironic that they didn’t search for them.
    Edit: It was so perfectly fitting for them to play the cover of Knocking on Heaven’s Door, sung by the actress that played Barnes, during the end credits because it sounds so similar to Fade Into You by Mazzy Star. It just further solidified everything the movie said about iterations. So clever.

  • @yelenalatorre154
    @yelenalatorre154 2 місяці тому +35

    The way I interpret the ending : Paxton didn't die. God actually answered her prayer and saved her life through her friend Barnes, who was either resurrected at that moment or was still alive. The butterfly that landed on Paxton's hand was the soul of her friend Barnes. The fact that it appeared in the cold and the snow was a miracle, showing her that her faith was not in vain.

    • @danielhainline8882
      @danielhainline8882 2 місяці тому +3

      I thought that, too! I like to think she found help and those poor women were rescued from the cages in the basement. As for the phone, it takes a while for reception to come back to the phone when you're in a place that doesn't allow it. He could have cut her stomach like a surgeon and could have gone deeper than what he did. God answers prayers in ways we like and some times in ways we don't like, but He has reasons for how He answers.

    • @franciscosandoval3640
      @franciscosandoval3640 2 місяці тому +5

      Same this is exactly how I interpreted it. Power of Jesus on screeen ! Yes you heard 🙏💪✝️

    • @TueSorensen
      @TueSorensen 2 місяці тому +5

      Ah, the point about the butterfly at the end is that it DISappeared. It was her faith, and it disappeared. After having come face to face with the true essence of religion: control and power, she could no longer be religious.

    • @paulyname
      @paulyname Місяць тому

      ​@@TueSorensenNot being religious doesn't mean not having faith. The butterfly may well be the first one they saw that was trapped.

    • @wuocsang
      @wuocsang Місяць тому +1

      YESSSSS THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT !

  • @educationalporpoises9592
    @educationalporpoises9592 2 місяці тому +9

    I like this movie.
    I’m quite religious, and at first I thought it was kinda like God’s Not Dead but reversed (I hate those movies, lol), but my wife and I talked about the movie afterward and had great fun analyzing it. It actually has some really interesting commentary regarding absolute cynicism and absolute naivety, the spectrum in between, and the manner of how religion is now viewed in modernity.
    I think the subheader-question everything-is a good guide to how to approach the movie thematically. This includes the villain, who essentially presents himself as a foul priest of sorts.

    • @ObsessiveGeek
      @ObsessiveGeek 2 місяці тому +2

      I’m curious did you have any crisis of faith after seeing this?
      Or does the statement about the power of prayer being about an emotional support of each other hold you in good stead??

    • @krdiaz8026
      @krdiaz8026 2 місяці тому +4

      @@ObsessiveGeek Speaking as a religious Catholic, only a person of weak faith would have a crisis of faith after watching this movie. If Mr Reed had trapped a very holy Catholic or Orthodox person - think someone like Mother Teresa, or Maximillian Kolbe - they would simply sit there and pray continually, offering up their sufferings for the conversion of Mr Reed.
      History is full of Catholics and Orthodox being tortured for their faith - look up the Pitesti prison for one of the worst examples - where more horrible things were done to them to break them of their faith, yet they persevered until death. Even the Protestants are capable of this as shown during the Spanish Inquisition and the French persecution of the Huguenots.
      Also, Mr Reed has a child's understanding of religion. A non-religious person will think of life inside a convent as an example of control, but a Catholic woman who has a true vocation to religious life will find it very freeing. I am sure that most truly religious people, people who truly believe, will understand what I mean.

    • @ObsessiveGeek
      @ObsessiveGeek 2 місяці тому

      @krdiaz8026 I was referring specifically to the overall theme of iteration, even memory itself comes under fire to this.
      Our recall of an event is a recounting of those events rather than what actually transpired, each time we tell the story we are recounting the previous telling of the event and therefore diluting it further and further.
      All this before ever putting a memory into a text account, which is then rewritten and translated and rewritten again over and over and over.
      Can you truly trust the text you have read as “the one truth” knowing this and knowing the many, many, many accounts of what has now been referred to as “The Heroes Journey”?
      It’s curious you only focused on the torture and the base line of “control” aka indoctrination - his criticism is quite adept in that why does any religious institution require “salespeople” to convince others to join, or that a deity who sets out in judgment of people who are being true to themselves (how they were created to be) is a force of goodness.
      The film asks a lot of very powerful questions, to dismiss it so easily as “childish” shows a complete disregard of what was presented to you.
      Blind faith indeed.

    • @ObsessiveGeek
      @ObsessiveGeek 2 місяці тому +1

      @@krdiaz8026 seems the main theme of iteration went over your head then

    • @krdiaz8026
      @krdiaz8026 2 місяці тому +2

      @@ObsessiveGeek I simply answered the question of whether this movie necesssrily results in a crisis of faith. You seem to assume it does, and if it did not the person did not understand it. We can watch something like this, understand it, and still be religious afterwards.

  • @JamesFaunch
    @JamesFaunch 3 місяці тому +20

    Just seen it and I thought it was terrific 🎉 Hugh Grant is just incredible as are the two female actors. Highly recommend

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  3 місяці тому +2

      Yeah the cast was really strong!

  • @scottmoore7588
    @scottmoore7588 2 місяці тому +9

    Ending Explained: There is no explanation XD

  • @Slay84inky
    @Slay84inky Місяць тому +5

    Just watched tonight! Many people are pointing out the girl who seemed scared and timid the entire time could not or should not have ended up being so clever. But she was the one at the beginning doing a lot of talking and questioning, and then she was always trying to diffuse the tension in the house while the other girl was antagonistic. I'm not a writer, but I think it was a good twist to remind us that asking questions can be just as useful as being tough. After all, the biggest threat to religion is inquiring minds.

    • @VirgosGroove3
      @VirgosGroove3 Місяць тому

      I think she was always inquisitive but stopped playing dumb when they realized the front door was locked. Her character reminded me of something an old mentor said about women and submitting. It’s a kink and a choice. These women aren’t completely brainwashed they know when to turn it on and off. I think she was always intelligent but played the game when it came to religion.

  • @veronicacuello9890
    @veronicacuello9890 Місяць тому +1

    I loved this movie. I believe that the girl didn't make it.
    Her role remembered me in church, faithful but never blind, and investigating everything, the tongues, the baptism in water, the organizations, the tithes, the missionaries, the miracles and half church with tumors. So I went from Catholic to pentecostal to Hebrew roots and now biblical sciences. Hugh Grant was right in every word he talked about in this film. But, at the end of the day, we all have our time to open our eyes and see the truth. And about the simulation, I have in my drawer David's Icke book, which I started and left on page 20. I don't believe that either. This world is a mystery. Religions are human philosophies. Yes, we are controlled, but not only by religions but also governments.
    So, I simply loved this movie.
    And I loved this review, too. Let's continue searching the truth, not believing that we are wiser that others like Hugh Grant thought. Always our feet on the ground and not obsessed with any subject.

  • @dsinghr
    @dsinghr Місяць тому +1

    what about the toy house and how it controlled the windows of the real house they were in ? this part was not explained. I think Reed really had the power to kill someone and bring them back to life although he himself did not really believe in it. That's why he got the first prophet woman replaced for illusion of bringing original one back to life. So he never expected that Barnes would come back to life and thus lower his guard. But indeed in the end, Barnes came back to life and killed Reed ! And while Paxton managed to escape, the butterfly in the end was Barnes who remembered what Paxton told her earlier and she wanted her to know that that butterfly is Barnes ! Beautiful.

  • @mistercohaagen
    @mistercohaagen 2 місяці тому +13

    Just saw it... enjoyed thoroughly. Very relevant philosophy lesson for the times we now face.

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  2 місяці тому +2

      Yeah it's a really thought provoking movie

  • @TueSorensen
    @TueSorensen 2 місяці тому +21

    I don't think Sister Paxton died and went into the afterlife. The movie made a major point out of not being supernatural. What happens at the end with the disappearing butterfly is that she loses her faith. Realizing that religion is only about manipulation and power.

    • @CompaRipperALV_CDB
      @CompaRipperALV_CDB Місяць тому +1

      How do you explain the dead girl resurrecting and killing hugh grant

    • @TueSorensen
      @TueSorensen Місяць тому +5

      @@CompaRipperALV_CDB Maybe she wasn't quite dead yet.

    • @youbluethatone1017
      @youbluethatone1017 8 днів тому +1

      Yes but hallucinations during Death are a real phenomena and not supernatural at all. I myself had my heart stop for around 4 minutes in 2020 and I could only describe it as being in the most realistic Lucid Dream you could ever imagine times 1,000. It seemed to last Hours in my mind while in reality it was just around 4 minutes. The Brain does crazy things while starved of oxygen and it is trying to cling on to life. Thank God I wasn’t home alone and was visiting my parents when it happened and my Dad performed CPR on me immediately.
      She definitely died in the basement. All the signs point to this conclusion and if you couldn’t notice them I’d suggest rewatching the last 15 minutes and paying closer attention.

  • @josepheridu3322
    @josepheridu3322 2 місяці тому +6

    I get the criticism of religion as "blind faith", and yet I think the criticism extends way wider: What is good or bad? Are human rights a delusion? What is even real (metafictionally)?

    • @Nightshade1881
      @Nightshade1881 2 місяці тому

      That fact Christianity is not respected is the fact they would love to have control of everyone and deny human rights!

  • @Ionic457
    @Ionic457 Місяць тому +1

    Love the video. you earned my sub!

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  Місяць тому

      Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video

  • @Tannguardian
    @Tannguardian Місяць тому +3

    Perhaps, i was a little naive. But completely expected them both to eventually leave after completing challenges in various rooms and come out with a new perspective on their faith. But i guess that wasn't the point, the point was that this guy was still a psycho, a well read psycho but a psycho nonetheless

  • @DeadDave
    @DeadDave Місяць тому +11

    I’ve known for years about there being multiple versions of the story of Christ. That part of the movie stood out for me about how nothing is original, it’s just iterations, borrowed from other stories told before.

    • @curtf9813
      @curtf9813 Місяць тому +2

      On different continents thousands of years ago

    • @AstheticSpidey
      @AstheticSpidey 21 день тому +1

      Ya the fact that he has Sanskrit and ancient Egyptian scripts in his home speaks volumes to the research done for this movie!

  • @dorisgrant9372
    @dorisgrant9372 2 місяці тому +2

    I thought Hugh Grant was supreme in this movie. It did start out a little slow but I was quickly intrigued with the suspense. The girls played great parts also. One very naive and the other one very strong willed. Hugh Grant was also fantastic in the series “The English Scandal”. GReat actor.

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  2 місяці тому

      Yeah Hugh Grants was awesome!

  • @mananmohamed1.0
    @mananmohamed1.0 Місяць тому +1

    one thing i was focused on was Reed waiting to hear sister Paxton declare him as and call the dude GOD, rather than 'control'. messed up ofc...
    -it was slow yes, but the acting just gives into it. they did so good. we should also focus on survival instincts in a case of kidnapping or the need to escape in a similar situation or not. regardless being with a friend or other people and coming up with secret codes or being alone. Just knowing what to do.
    At the end of the day we never know. THEIR EMOTIONS- which is acting just makes me think...What would i do if i were in their situation their position. i'd pee my pants and shit myself to death?
    Wouldnt easily be able to stop thinking of this movie atleast for a while now then. it was good, intense. from my pov ofcourse.

  • @djmattblack
    @djmattblack Місяць тому +1

    What was the story with the model house, he seemed to know every move they would make and the house kind of symbolised him playing god, yet in the end Barnes was able to use it to find a way to escape

  • @jjsmama401
    @jjsmama401 Місяць тому

    I wish it had been more like an escape room, where each room holds a key to moving towards the truth and therefore escape. As the blond girl is speeding through those rooms at the end, I wish we could spend more time in each room, discovering what Mr Read had explored in his search for the truth.

  • @Goldenj360
    @Goldenj360 2 місяці тому +2

    They setup up the whole male missionary character just to justify how the dead body was moved. Seemed quite ridiculous. Also quite ridiculous how the blonde immediately knew everything that Hugh Grant was doing and trying to convey once the black haired girl died. It also seemed strange that they tried to setup Hugh Grant’s character as extremely meticulous, even planning to move the body when the doorbell was rang. But then he couldn’t account for leaving a knife on the ground, having wood with nails in the basement, his prophets not going through with his script, etc.

  • @DianaWoods-n7r
    @DianaWoods-n7r Місяць тому

    Thank you! I just walked out of the theater 20 minutes ago! I loved it! I appreciate your takes. ✌🏼💜

  • @yurtyahearne9044
    @yurtyahearne9044 2 дні тому

    Just watched. Wow. I found it terrifying. Also beautiful. I almost shed a tear in the final scene with the butterfly

  • @blengblong01712
    @blengblong01712 23 дні тому

    The ending implies that she escaped and the butterfly is real or she's hallucinating and the butterfly was just part of it. Love it!

  • @LewdDreams0
    @LewdDreams0 Місяць тому +1

    After careful research, I’ve concluded that the blonde girl died at some point and started hallucinating what was happening to her. A lot of people mention how her phone did not have signal when she made it outside when it should have therefore possibly hinting at her hallucinations. Then the butterfly that appeared then disappeared could have been her dying because she said when she dies she wants to come back as butterfly and land on peoples fingertips. I thought it could have been the other friend that died being the butterfly but it didn’t make sense when she didn’t even say that was how she wanted to come back and she also wasn’t a full believer.

    • @hmp01
      @hmp01 27 днів тому

      She is not blonde

    • @LewdDreams0
      @LewdDreams0 27 днів тому

      @ ….. ok? That’s for that…

    • @hmp01
      @hmp01 27 днів тому

      @@LewdDreams0 im just saying

    • @LewdDreams0
      @LewdDreams0 27 днів тому

      @@hmp01 meant to say thanks for that but auto correct won’t let me be great… but did you want to add anything else?🙂‍↕️😭

    • @hmp01
      @hmp01 27 днів тому

      @@LewdDreams0 hahaha its ok, naah nothing to add except I loved this film

  • @DEMfilmsJWalsh
    @DEMfilmsJWalsh 22 дні тому

    Also, in the ending we saw sabbatean symbols on the two doors. Which gives away his idea of the one true religion. The question he never really answered. Yet control is the main objective of that religion

  • @micky1311
    @micky1311 3 місяці тому +5

    great vid mate. subbed

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video

  • @franklingreen4719
    @franklingreen4719 20 днів тому +1

    Mr. Reed wasn't trying to find God, Mr. Reed wanted reasons to deny God because he was an evil man. If Mr. Reed truly wanted to find God he would have found Hin.

  • @blackwavearcade3ms
    @blackwavearcade3ms Місяць тому +1

    This movie held my attention for a good while. There were a couple times I thought it was going one way and instead went somewhere way more interesting. Sadly it all goes to shit in the last half. Just another lunatic bad guy doing lunatic shit. The last 15 minutes or so actually made me angry. Great premise, zero payoff

  • @ByancaCristina86
    @ByancaCristina86 Місяць тому +4

    Excellent movie. Very interesting and thought provoking

  • @litneyloxan
    @litneyloxan 2 місяці тому +2

    Fabulous acting from hugh grant. Truly loved the thoughts this movie provoked

  • @joshuafreeman4459
    @joshuafreeman4459 9 днів тому +1

    I don’t think she died. I think it’s simply symbolic that she’s free to believe what she wants. I.e. her ideal version of the afterlife. Or maybe she did haha I don’t think her dying is the point either.

  • @jacobhubbard9266
    @jacobhubbard9266 2 місяці тому +1

    I would argue that seeing it in the theater really does add to the experience, so I would mostly certainly take the time to see it in the theater if you can.

  • @manoclocknews
    @manoclocknews 23 дні тому +1

    essentially this movie is a waste of time. just like grant's character, this movie says it knows the truth. that it's sickening. I agree with him. the truth is that we were led to believe theres a story. begining middle and end. all this is, is lazy writing. open-ended means "i didn't know where it went from there".

  • @sanqopearl
    @sanqopearl Місяць тому

    i just watched it, it's a great movie! i love horror/thriller/suspense films that use the "little is more" narrative. and hugh is brilliant here, one of his best works

  • @Rejisama
    @Rejisama 23 дні тому

    The plot and script were exceptional. Brilliant movie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @fernybunny001
    @fernybunny001 Місяць тому

    I think Paxton made it outside because I don’t think she saw when Barnes hid the piece wood with nails, so how would she hallucinated that? I do think that Paxton is dying when she did make it outside though, because of her imagining the butterfly.

  • @estebanrodriguez9007
    @estebanrodriguez9007 Місяць тому +1

    Very accurate breakdown. I also felt the ending was down to the viewer's interpretation.

    • @BrainPilot
      @BrainPilot  Місяць тому

      Glad you enjoyed the video!

  • @Abdelrahmanhussein-z1f
    @Abdelrahmanhussein-z1f Місяць тому

    It's an extremely impressive movie. The way I see the Ending is that Paxton lived and survived the whole atrocity. ( Paxton ) lived and ( sister Paxton ) died with all her thoughts concerning religions and prayers. The butterfly symbolizes her return to her new born character who doesn't believe in use of prayers and all these religious rituals and so on

  • @adamw7411
    @adamw7411 Місяць тому +1

    How did he knew the girl had an implant in her arm? Did he had it already in his hand or was it really in her arm?
    And at the end the girl escaped through the window but before that she opened the same window on the model of the house. That didn’t made sense to me

    • @sanjallybojang3825
      @sanjallybojang3825 Місяць тому +2

      He noticed the implant at the very start when they were discussing in the living room. He saw her scratching it

  • @ILOVEJJKSOMUCH
    @ILOVEJJKSOMUCH 2 місяці тому +5

    The premise of this movie was so interesting and I was so looking forward to watching it. While the performances were top notch, the execution was poor and have too many un answered questions . The movie was disappointing in my opinion.

  • @mfcchris499
    @mfcchris499 2 місяці тому +9

    It brought up a great thought of how religion evolved over time and how is all seems like an interconnected web of chinese whispers (i dont know what the universal game is called but thats what my country call it)

    • @dawb86
      @dawb86 2 місяці тому +3

      It's called 'the telephone game' in the US

  • @TheRemulosEpsolonProgramme
    @TheRemulosEpsolonProgramme 3 місяці тому +11

    Thought it would be worth commenting as I saw this posted on Reddit and numerous other film forum type places.
    It's being reported and or at least rumoured that there's two endings circulating. One where Mr Reed lives despite being wounded / the girl gets out the window.
    In the Cinema which I just got back from, I got the ending where the girl climbs out the window.
    Did anyone get the ending where Mr Reed lives like others have "claimed"
    This is very confusing as to why (if true) the two endings are in circulation for the theatrical release.

    • @oBlvd
      @oBlvd 2 місяці тому +5

      Just watched the movie and i saw where the mr. Reed dies and the girls clombs out the window.

    • @easyenetwork2023
      @easyenetwork2023 2 місяці тому +2

      Could be a director’s cut and theatrical release. The theatrical release is the main ending, the director’s cut the other ending.

  • @StumblethroughProductions
    @StumblethroughProductions 2 місяці тому +21

    The key point this review seems to be missing is the symbolism behind the woman coming back to life and killing the man.
    Earlier in the film, the man tries to deceive her by saying he believes life is just a simulation, implying that once she’s dead, she won’t return because, as part of this “simulation,” she’s merely a disposable figure. He’s using this argument as a manipulation tactic, not because he genuinely believes it.
    However, when she does come back to life, it’s a symbolic moment. Her return challenges his claim, confronting him with the unsettling possibility that he could be wrong about the nature of existence. Her revival suggests that, even if he dismisses the idea of an afterlife or the possibility of existing within a simulation, there’s no certainty in his assumptions. The film is, in essence, “calling him out” and quite literally “smacking him in the head by showing that he doesn’t hold the ultimate truth.
    So, her resurrection isn’t just a plot twist, -it’s a reminder that we don’t truly know what lies beyond life or the nature of reality itself. He could have been wrong.

    • @dawb86
      @dawb86 2 місяці тому +8

      I don't think he took her faith away, not entirely at least. He turned her into a skeptic rather than a blind follower. That's why she does see the butterfly but then it disappears.

    • @ObsessiveGeek
      @ObsessiveGeek 2 місяці тому

      It’s best to believe in nothing as that’s as much as we know

    • @SIERRATREES
      @SIERRATREES 2 місяці тому

      Thats how I saw it, which was, Mr. Control religion being proven wrong.

    • @SIERRATREES
      @SIERRATREES 2 місяці тому +2

      @@ObsessiveGeek I hear you, but I cant think there aint an answer to it all. " This " is all not an accident. I like the famous Polymath, Leibnitz - he discovered Calculus - and his thinking when he argued that for all of this realm to exist, something beyond the whole space time continuum has to exist . as the starting point, in another realm we don't understand. Call that something God, or what ever you want. I suppose its a place holder, and perhaps the how and the why is not be known. You'll just have ideas that can be neither proven or disproven. That aside, I'm a Christian and the virtue and morality, the support I get from attending church, and the beautiful art and calming lessons, are all undeniable.

    • @ObsessiveGeek
      @ObsessiveGeek 2 місяці тому

      @SIERRATREES Needing to make sense of something that is infinite is a very human idea.
      Our known reality is beyond vast. We are barely even an microscopic dot in the masses of celestial matter.
      Beyond this, our known reality is simply what we can observe, it doesn't "end" and it has no beginning.
      Adding a deity to help explain a "beginning" answers nothing, where did the deity come from?
      It's the exact same Chicken or Egg problem rephrased into a nice bedtime story to make you feel better about something incomprehensible.

  • @tellit2bees
    @tellit2bees Місяць тому

    Hugh Grant was brilliant! I didn’t see him, but the man who was so calm and intelligent at first sight and was hiding the horrible secrets from the other side, it was so creepy and felt so true. But I think the movie was too short for the idea with the trap to evolve. I just need more to feel the tension. Hugh Grand himself did the sick man perfectly! I wish the movie wasn’t so short.

  • @Malpertui87
    @Malpertui87 Місяць тому

    Also Sister Barnes had already been "ressurected" after Taco Bell poisoning. It could show that she is a fighter and doesn't die that easily. One point in the theory that Sister Paxton survived

  • @leilamaddox-ip7jn
    @leilamaddox-ip7jn 2 місяці тому

    My friends and I saw this movie last night and one of my friends analyzed this. because the mans walls where made of metal or steel or forgot, this created a vortex and my friends believed that the only reason the girl was able to be resurrected was because she was in a different realm/ vortex while the missionary who got stabbed actually died because she wasn't in the second part of the dungeon in which the vortex was.