It then retreats, leaving a shocked crew in its wake.Įventually, the sea beast brings them to an island. Watching this play out, the Bluster comes up and takes Maisie and Jacob into its mouth. He shouts at Jacob to bring the girl to him there will be consequences for her actions. Maisie saves them by cutting the sea monster free, although she and Jacob fall into the ocean as a result.Īnd Captain Crow isn’t happy. When they next encounter The Red Bluster, they manage to capture it–but the beast nearly takes the ship down with it. The Inevitable sets to the seas again, this time with Maisie on board. What happens when Captain Crow goes after the Red Bluster again? This leads her to sneak off and stow away onto Captain Crow’s ship–much to the chagrin of Jacob.
The daughter of deceased monster hunters, the little girl wants to follow in her parents’ footsteps–to live as a hero and to die a great death. Maisie Brumble is a young orphan, but she’s not content to live the rest of her childhood in the orphanage. If the Royal Navy succeeds, the King and Queen can scrap their ship, The Inevitable. If they capture The Red Bluster, they continue hunting for the Crown. Jacob, in an attempt to save the crew’s livelihood, proposes a deal. This displeases the monarchs, who declare that Captain Crow’s monster hunting days are over. However, when he and his crew–including his adopted son Jacob Holland–encounter the Bluster on the seas, it slips through their grasp. What deal does Jacob strike with the King and Queen?Ĭaptain Crow, the most famous monster hunter in the land, has been after a beast called The Red Bluster for 30 years. Now, monster hunters sail the ocean, killing beasts to make the waters safer on behalf of the King and Queen. This has been the case for hundreds of years, ever since the so-called “Dark Ages,” when the beasts supposedly began attacking human towns. In The Sea Beast, monstrous sea creatures roam the seas, making the waters a dangerous route to travel. When the two go on a grand adventure together, they find themselves right in the middle of a decades-long war between beasts and humans.
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There are no consequences to his actions, "even after admitting this." The movie ends as Bateman says: "there is no catharsis.From Sony Pictures Imageworks and director Chris Williams ( Moana, Big Hero 6 ), Netflix’s The Sea Beast is a children’s adventure film about an orphan girl named Maisie and a monster hunter named Jacob. By the end, the question of whether Bateman's murders really happened is irrelevant-no one would have noticed either way. Either he's done nothing, or his crimes have been of so little interest to his peers that they haven't caused a single ripple.
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His apartment full of corpses has been cleaned up. (The ATM that says FEED ME A STRAY CAT and the shootout with police that follows, for example.) An air of "did that really happen?" hangs over the entire story, until the only thing that's truly clear is that Bateman is utterly insane.įollowing a night of murder, a police manhunt, and a confession to his lawyer, Bateman attends a social occasion to find that nothing's changed. His body count is called into question as the story progresses and Bateman frequently experiences things that aren't real. As he told Vulture, "It allows people to make up their own mind of what it means."Įveryone around Bateman is as horrible as he is, save for the murderous tendencies-and Bateman may not even be a real murderer. As for the ambiguity of that last shot? Totally intentional. As he's said in multiple interviews, he was originally inspired by a nightmare in which he knew he was being followed, knew he couldn't get away, and knew the people with him in the nightmare weren't able to help him. Mitchell has only hinted at his personal point of view on the scene depicting the spirit's possible "death," but he's made it clear that he never set out to make a movie with a literal meaning, or one whose antagonist's motives were ever explained. Like plenty of thought-provoking cinema, much of It Follows is open to interpretation. In the film's final shot, the duo walk down a street while someone (or some thing?) follows behind. After the climactic conflict, Jay and her friend Paul (Keir Gilchrist) have sex.and later, Paul's seen driving past a group of prostitutes. One thing leads to another, and ultimately, she and her friends try killing it, with generally unpleasant (not to mention ambiguous) results. Jay's told the only way she can escape the evil spirit (which haunts her in some truly terrifying ways) is by sleeping with someone else to pass it on. But Mitchell uses it as the setup for a pretty devilish little film. If that sounds ridiculous, well, it kinda is on its face.
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