And then, just when he’s wondering what to do without a bullet for himself… the mist recedes and the army rolls in. When the gang runs out of gas, they also run out of hope, leaving David no choice but to put everyone else out of their misery (a mercy killing that involves shooting his young son in the head). That’s when the film breaks away from the novella. Our heroes eventually make a break for it, burly painter David Drayton (Thomas Jane) leading the escape. For almost two hours, Frank Darabont’s masterfully oppressive Stephen King adaptation siphons away your faith in the future, trapping its motley crew of characters inside of a Maine supermarket and watching them tear each other apart as a fog of inter-dimensional monsters settles over their world. “The Mist” doesn’t have a plot twist in the traditional sense - it’s more of a cruelly ironic turn of the screw, a reveal that broadens what we know without tampering with it - but good lord does it pull the rug out from under us. Perhaps the biggest twist of all is Peele’s table-flip to anyone who thought he was just a sketch-comedian. In the finale, the bad guys are slaughtered and a jocular TSA official saves our hero and countless future victims. The Armitage family’s evil ploy is to help their loved ones live forever by implanting their brains into younger black bodies, subject to secret slave-like auctions. On a $4 million budget, Peele not only modernized the relevant-as-ever social satire - “Get Out” premiered at Sundance four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration ushered white supremacists back into the White House - but also made a resplendent mystic-action-horror-revenge fantasia. “Get Out” (2017)Ī half-century after “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?,” writer Jordan Peele revisited the iconic film’s plot for his directorial debut: awkwardness ensues when a white woman (Allison Williams) brings her black boyfriend (Daniel Kaluuya) home to meet her supposedly progressive parents (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford). The twist reveals that we have been watching what, in retrospect, feels like an incredibly naturalistic story of what it must be like to discover you really are a superhero. When David shakes Elijah’s hand at the end of the movie he sees that his guru has orchestrated terrorist attacks, including his train crash, as he tells David his purpose in life is to be the villain “Mr. Night Shyamalan directs the story as if it is a mysterious drama, with only a hint of the supernatural underneath as we too wonder what is exactly happening and if there might be some truth in Elijah’s comics. Jackson), a comic book store owner with a rare bone disorder, uses his deep superhero knowledge to help David mine his past and test his abilities until he finally discovers he can see the criminal acts of those he comes into contact. Bruce Willis is an average guy, David Dunn, who after surviving a train crash that killed 130 passengers, wonders if he may have special powers. An incredibly unique and unexpected film about superhero comic books and their myths, which at the end reveals itself to be its own unique origin story.
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