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Anyone up for discussing this?


Just saw the movie, and it's the kind of movie that just screams for being discussed with someone. Alas, I saw it on my own and don't know anyone else who have seen it. So...

Anyone else feel the need for talking about it?
Jessie Buckley's absolutely breathtaking performance?
The score?
The significance of the very last shot of the movie?
How good is it actually? It's one of those movies, I can't seem to make up my mind whether it is great or just fine.

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It was great

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Haha, thank you for the short and simple reply. So now I know.

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I saw it a while ago

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what do you think the importance of the very last shot of the film is?
I personally believe the film sabotaged itself by leaving the murder investigations too vague. there is a fine line where you leave things vague enough to keep your audience guessing but the director never reached that line in fear of giving out too much information.

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Came across it last night when I was browsing for a movie to watch. Absolutely top-notch psychological thriller. The two leads were incredible. I was gripped from the start realising I was watching a film that is guaranteed to become a cult classic.

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I wrote a review of "Beast" that covers most of your questions, I think: https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-beast-a-feral-study-of-love-repression-and-violence

I also watched this film on my own, and the ending is so ambiguous that I understand your need to discuss it with someone, haha!

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I have a theory about the ending ( I just saw the film. It's April 26th.'19) Here it goes. I don't think Pasqual committed the serial murders/rape. I think he in the outdoor restaurant scene with Moll, saw she needed to believe that he was indeed the one because he saw she would not let it go. Like a nagging girlfriend who won't believe her boyfriend cheated...So he confesses to her so she can feel 'I knew it' he thought that would be it and they could move on. Afterall the real murderer/rapist was arrested with substantial evidence against him. Pasqual felt guilty about choking her so he gave her the satisfaction she needed. When he said to her at the final moment while she's choking him to death..we're alike (something to that effect) remember he was enraged earlier and had choked her. That's what he meant. She's the one who is clearly the one who would murder as she did in her life before stabbing the girl.

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I'll discuss my thoughts about it.

It was okay, some parts were good. Some of it confusing.

I still am not sure who killed the young woman. Him? Her? The other guy they said did it? I suspected for awhile the guy who was harassing her the night of her birthday, after they left the bar. And yeah, what did that last scene, with her standing up and having this really strong emotion on her face mean?

And I was unclear who the character was who kept interviewing her, who seemed to like her and have a history with her. The one she ends up telling she doesn't like his scent? Who was he/how was he related to her? Did he have a 'thing' for her? He was with the police force?

Some of the filming was beautiful at times, the storm, the waves, her dreams.

I sure wouldn't label it 'great' - and the fact that it's a 2017 movie with this few comments on moviechat says something too.

I'd appreciate your reply to this post. Are you clear who murdered the young women?

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"And I was unclear who the character was who kept interviewing her, who seemed to like her and have a history with her. The one she ends up telling she doesn't like his scent? Who was he/how was he related to her? Did he have a 'thing' for her? He was with the police force?"

answer: he was a cop who was in love with her. not sure of the extent of their relationship.

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that guy is her brother. He has a daughter That Moll looks after sometimes. It is never stated he is her brother but he spends too much time around the house to believe he's just a relative

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Pascal was the killer. Moll I think knew quite early on in proceedings (hence her bizarre dreams), but wanted to believe he was like her a good person who had made a mistake but regretted it. She projected everything onto pascal, in the hope he would provide the freedom and redemption she so wanted.

There are several clues he is the murderer, when they first meet when he has blood on his fingers, the way he urges her to torture the rabbit (classic serial killer trope) but moll puts it out of its misery. When she comes home after having sex with him in the woods she has dirt over her mouth (how he takes his victims) and how he asks her if she would still love him if he was the killer. Remember he had a prior for attacking an underage girl?

Moll realises in the restaurant that he is not like her at all and has no remorse, no regrets at all about what he has done, and is visibly stung when he says 'THEY meant nothing to me'..... I think it hits hard that he has killed several times for pleasure (she had always focussed on the one victim and her one mistake - and I doubt moll was a victim of bullying either) and then she decides to take revenge for the young women to prove finally that she is a 'good person' after all (something she spends the movie agonising over). I think the poor migrant farmworker had been framed by the police for the killings.

When pascal says 'but you are like me' at the end he is desperately trying to save his life by trying to bring moll back to the young woman he could manipulate before but this time he is the one who has made the mistake...by meeting a beast greater than him.

Was an absolutely brilliant film.

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Great film, yes, although I'm not sold on the idea Pascal is the murderer/rapist. To me, the director tries hard to leave it wide open so viewers can (just like us now) interpret it in different ways. It heavily reminds me of Memories of Murder, because the Korean film does the same, leaving some clues here and there whilst none conclusive. If I had to bring up my own theory, I'd say the killer's still on the loose and none of the characters we meet have anything to do with the murders

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