The Netflix thriller stars Kelsey Asbille as a young woman who is given a paralyzing drug by a cowardly serial killer (Finn Wittrock).

if you finish don’t move Without a fast heart rate and sweaty palms, your pulse may need to be checked. netflixThe stars of the white-knuckle survival horror thriller yellow stoneKelsey Asbille as Iris, a grieving mother seeking time alone and finnish wittrock as Richard, the serial killer who hunts her.

Directed by Adam Schindler and Brian Netto and produced by Sam Raimi, don’t move It is a simple and well-constructed thriller that is inspired by the similar theme Only (2020), as well as 2016 Be quiet and don’t breathe.

Those who have seen the film are enthusiastic about Asbille’s committed performance and the shocking twists that comprise it. don’t moveThe second half. Because we’re still mulling it over in our heads, we decided to take a look at the film’s wild climax and Iris’ ultimate fate.

Entertainment Weekly examine Netflix’s wild twists and turns don’t move.

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What is don’t move about?

Asbille plays Iris, a mother grieving the death of her teenage son, Mateo, who died in a tragic hiking accident after slipping and falling off the edge of a cliff. In the first scene, Iris returns to the place where Matteo fell, clutching a small toy boat that the young man treasured. Although Iris never speaks of her intentions, it is clear that she is planning to end her own life where her son died.

Enter Richard (Wittrock), a soft-spoken good guy who insists he, too, seeks solitude in the mountains. He manages to gain her trust, literally pulling her off the cliff in the process. They return to the parking area together, but once there, Iris sees that Richard has locked her car. He advances toward her apparently to help, but instead shocks her with a Taser disguised as an umbrella.

As Richard drives them to his cabin, Iris wakes up inside her car and pulls a small knife from her pocket, attacking Richard and causing the car to crash. The two fight for a moment, but just when it looks like Iris is about to escape, Richard informs her that during the fight he injected her with a paralyzing agent. It will take effect in a few minutes.

Iris flees into the woods with Richard in pursuit. When she begins to lose control of her muscles and faculties, Iris throws herself into a river and is able to float down the river on her back until she reaches the shore. She arrives at the property of a widowed farmer, who finds Iris while mowing the lawn. He takes her inside and is about to call the police when Richard, now identifying himself as Andrew, arrives at the door.

Richard claims that he was in a car accident and lost his wife. The farmer allows Richard inside, but the confrontation turns violent and Richard stabs the older man to death before setting the house on fire. Terrified of burning to death, Iris exposes herself to Richard, who takes her to the farmer’s truck, in which they escape as the sirens approach.

As they drive away, Iris overhears a conversation between Richard, his daughter, and his wife in which she discovers that the rest of their family is heading to the cabin for the weekend. Panicking, Richard stops at a gas station to refuel, leaving Iris alone in the truck. A little boy, whom Iris briefly imagines as Matteo, appears at the window and asks her questions. The young man’s mother drives him away, but is noticeably disturbed by Iris’ immobile condition.

Richard transports Iris back to his car so she can retrieve her personal belongings. While they are detained, a police officer (Daniel Francis) arrives and informs Richard that someone called for a welfare check on a vehicle that matched the truck’s license plate. He insists on talking to Iris, who Richard claims is his wife. He attributes his condition to drinking. “I need to make sure she responds,” the cop tells Richard.

As the police officer approaches her window, Iris whispers a weak “Help me”, prompting Richard to grab a large trailer winch and beat the officer to death.

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As don’t move end?

After murdering the well-meaning cop, Andrew takes Iris to a dock and puts her in a small boat. With little time until his family arrives at the cabin, Richard decides to take Iris to the middle of nowhere and kill her. Iris is able to trick Richard by pretending to cry and convincing him to crouch down next to her. When he does, she stabs him in the neck with a large knife. Richard points a gun at Iris, but she rocks the boat back and forth. Richard is sent overboard when the gun hits the floor of the ship.

But as with all slashers worth their salt, Richard rises from his watery grave (baby Jason Voorhees style) and tries to lunge at Iris, who grabs the gun and fires several shots. Two bullets pass through Richard and send him back into the river, but several also pass through the boat. With the water rising rapidly and the paralyzing drugs still limiting her movement, Iris is faced with an impossible decision.

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What happens to Iris at the end of don’t move?

Just as the water reaches her face, Iris takes a deep breath and sinks to the bottom of the boat. We cut to several shots of the placid water and surrounding trees, implying that Iris may not have survived her situation, until we see her emerge from the water. The guide to the shore is Matteo’s red plastic boat. Iris climbs onto the dock and waits as the power in her limbs slowly returns. As he does so, he hears Richard’s painful breathing from further down the beach.

Iris heads towards the mortally wounded Richard, who is choking on his own blood after being deposited on the shore. Iris stands over him for a moment, looking into his eyes. “Thank you,” Iris says to her attacker. Then she walks away, content to let Richard die a slow and painful death.

The final shot shows Iris returning to the place where Matteo died, climbing back onto the rock where we first met her. But the expression with which he looks at the horizon at the end is completely different from his behavior at the beginning of the film. We have a feeling that, despite the unimaginable tragedy she has suffered, Iris will not only live to see another day, she will live it for herself.

Why does Iris thank Richard at the end of the movie?

Although it may seem like a peculiar choice considering everything Richard has subjected Iris to, she thanks him before leaving him to die on the shore.

When he first met Iris, Richard was trying to show empathy for the loss of his son and told her a story about how terrible his last words to his beloved Chloe were, so terrible that he wouldn’t repeat them, until he did. Later, when Iris is able to speak, but still paralyzed in the truck, he explains that as Chloe lay dying in the terrible car accident he was responsible for, his last words to her were, “Thank you.” Listed in the hospital for two months after the accident, he had a moment of “clarity” about who he was: God.

Iris’s “Thank you” at the end certainly sounds like an act of revenge, for her and perhaps for Chloe too, but everything that’s happened with Richard has led her to her own epiphany: she wants to live. The last shot of don’t move It shows Iris standing at the spot where her son died with a look of determination, rather than the pain and hopelessness that the film began with.

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Asbille spoke with Netflix Tudum about the film’s messages of rebirth and renewal, and what exactly that final “thank you” denotes. “For me, the film is a conversation with oneself about the will to live,” Asbille explained. He went on to point out how the film begins with Iris trapped in her own pain before putting her in a situation where she is literally trapped inside herself. “That’s what makes the genre perfect for this kind of exploration: we can show his existential paralysis physically and not just metaphorically.”

Asbille continued: “I think there is a moment where Iris chooses to live, not just survive. “That’s what resonated with me, desperately fighting to overcome something that has left you paralyzed.”

“It’s double-edged, because she’s hitting him on the one hand, but there’s a genuine understanding on her part of, ‘Wow, okay, I owe this man my life because I didn’t want to fight for my life.'” . before I met him,’” co-director Netto agreed.

“Kelsey starts the movie helpless,” Raimi explained to Tudum. “He has been through a lot and feels like he has reached the end of his road. I think about the interaction with Finn’s character throughout the film, although it is a thriller, it is also a character film and she develops what she had lost: that desire to live.