Most Rewatchable Scene
Dinner scene; sailing accident through the flashback escape; YWCA phone call; carnival scene; ending when she realizes he is in the house; bus apple scene
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- The neighbor-doctor boat conversation is flagged as a really important scene rather than the most rewatchable; knowing what comes next makes it scary.
- The dinner scene is rewatchable: they have made up but she hates him and is angling for a way out, and their exchange about her sneaking off to a funeral ends with 'That would make you a monster.'
- The dinner exchange is a chess match that shows resistance brewing in her; before it she shows only fear and deference, and here she gives some back.
- In the boat scene the husband never confronts the neighbor he suspects and even accepts his invitation, showing he is a coward who only attacks someone ill-equipped to fight back, which is compared to real domestic abuse.
- The sailing accident, funeral and flashback escape are lumped together; the storm is so well shot the actors seem in danger, and they are doing everything wrong by sitting at the front of the boat.
- One participant has never been on a small boat, calls it Cape Cod whiteness, and would not get on that boat at night; the other would not either.
- Though anti-narration, one participant likes the narration here; realizing she broke the light on purpose is a voila moment, and the whole sequence is called incredibly watchable.
- Next rewatchable scene: the husband gets the call from the YWCA lady, with a 360-degree camera move before he breaks the phone, tears through the house and finds the ring.
- The YWCA lady is roasted for giving everything away; the scene is rewatchable but annoying, and she should have connected the bruises, the 'gymnastics', the swimming lessons and the drowning and called the police.
- The carnival scene is really good and well shot, the peak Patrick Bergin face as he watches from afar like the head-exploding guy in Scanners.
- The ending where she realizes he is in the house, with the creepy song, the towels and the canned goods, shows the crazy ramping up to a Nightmare on Elm Street-level villain.
- The woman on the bus sharing the apple is another pick, called quietly one of the most empowering scenes because she tells her story aloud for the first time, in the third person, to a stranger; the other participant agrees completely.