In the beginning, the mother is only responding to Elias and there's twins, I just put two and two together and said, Lukas is dead, isn't he? And there were times when I second-guessed myself but I ended up being right and I was like wow! Did anyone else find it easy to predict? Or have I seen too many moviesXD
shareI don't mean this to come across as snarky, but I don't think it was meant to be a "twist." I think that knowing that Elias only imagined Lukas to be alive, and wondering why he did - guilt over the referred-to accident? justified? not? - was a big part of the experience of watching the movie unfold. I wondered how long it had been since Lukas had died - months? several years, with Elias only "logically" seeing him as he himself now looked? At a point early on I even wondered if Elias had ever even had a twin, or if Lukas had died at birth. (Others have posited that Lukas was a ghost, seen only by Elias.)
I like movies that make you think!
It's a dumb movie! Of course it was meant to be a twist but it wasn't handled well and it's easy to tell that one of them isn't real. The movie was supposed to be a horror/thriller about whether or not their mother was really their mother. Scenes of her acting suspicious were there for that reason. However once the main twist of Lukas being make believe is guessed its not such a long shot to understand that Elias is paranoid and delusional and his hallucinations of his dead brother are also causing him to doubt reality. The tacked on torture scenes at the end are ridiculous and if anything only makes you hate the boys and the movie even more.
I gave it 1/10!
Clearly you missed the point of the film. The fact that Lukas was dead was not a twist and was easily seen in the first few minutes of the film. This was a psychological study of Elias and had very little to do with whether his mother was his mother or not. That was a part of his grand illusion. The "tacked on" torture scene, as you call it, was necessary to the completion of the story. It was necessary to show the extent of Elias' delusion and paranoia. Almost everything he did came from Lukas.
Your "analysis" of the film is lacking in so many ways.
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I'm sorry but your analysis is just another pretentious opinion (just like so many other similar "horror" films have received in the past), the movie is filled with cliches, the whole donation collectors scene whilst the mother is gagged, and oh no she removes the tape from her mouth just as they're leaving nonsense. Just because it's subtitled and foreign doesn't automatically make it a deeper work than something from the US.
shareI actually didn't guess it but then again I'm not the smartest person in the world. I thought the mother was abusive to her children before the surgery, but became even worse afterwards. I figured she was a bit nicer to Elias because she liked him slightly more. Anyways, I thought the twins were psychopaths who made up a fake story about the mother being an alien presence as an excuse to torture her. So I was surprised by the ending.
The ending we really got reminded me a lot of "The Other (1972)" which is a good compliment because both movies are very good.
I watched the movie today and understood the same. I was thinking that I was the only person that didnt got the plot in the first ten minutes. A good movie!