What’s Aged the Best?
The economical production; Indy Navarrette’s switches; dense visual details; the retained ending.
The Memorial Day run, Ian’s bad friendship, mirrored deaths, Easter eggs, alternate ending, and accidental movement are also retained.
In the discussion (18)
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- An old-style Memorial Day box-office weekend is praised.
- The no-no-no montage is praised despite its obvious Get Out debt.
- Ian reading as a bad friend becomes clearer on rewatch.
- The production’s tiny scale and polished result are praised.
- Indy Navarrette’s switches between normal and possessed Nikki are praised.
- The shower shutting off after boys’ night is announced is praised as a small detail.
- Bear dying in a way that mirrors his cat is praised. — Chris Ryan
- The magic figure and voodoo doll in the wish shop are retained as possible franchise clues.
- The upside-down Art of Seduction book is retained as a visual joke.
- Bear’s search history is retained as character detail.
- Sarah consistently staged to Bear’s left and Nikki to his right is proposed as a visual pattern, with intent left uncertain.
- Nikki eating only when Bear eats is proposed as a pattern.
- The television showing video of Bear sleeping is retained as an Easter egg.
- The romance montage appearing long while covering about two days is retained.
- An unused tragic ending in which Nikki kills herself after breaking free is reported; the released ending is preferred.
- A possible anthology about other wishes is reported.
- Nikki’s confused turn after the wish was reportedly an actor mistake retained in the film.
- Christopher Nolan’s praise for the film is reported.