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Hi Esmerelda!
I agree with and appreciate everything you have written in your analysis with the exception of one thing: To me, I never saw the the naked woman Mary as someone who was disturbed or someone that was not in control of herself. I also never felt she needed to be protected by Will, as the one time there was a conflict with her, she simply walked away. Maybe this could be interpreted as something like women in danger not needing protection by Will, as they are aware already that he is not going to be any help? Maybe this can be reflected in the fact that (as you stated) Will thought the cry for help on the cell phone was a joke, or that Carrie seemed to push him away when he showed up to "save" her from that intruder in their house.
Just seeing your point of the relationship to his name being Will, and him seeming to literally have no "will" of his own was such an eye opener. As this movie apparently is based on a book by Nathan Ballingrud has me interested to see if the book has more to offer.
All in all, I found the movie to be interesting. It was a slow burner, and at times the character's practice of not simply talking to one another was quite distracting, but that seems to be a horror movie trope. I find the actions of characters to simply refuse to talk about one another to build tension to be a a tiresome way for writers to try and crank up tension. While I feel that it could be explained as something that the evil entity was doing to the characters to keep them from exposing it, I think if that were the case, it could have been explained a little better. But I still found this to be an interesting movie, and after seeking the book out, I may have to revisit it.
Thanks for your excellent analysis of this movie, Esmerelda!
edit: Foundflix has a great video on this movie, found here: https://youtu.be/VAflEEaH1kk
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