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Netflix’s new paralyzing horror film, Don’t moveis currently the number 1 movie on the streaming platform. If you’ve watched the thriller, read on to dive into the ending Don’t Movement and find out why Iris said “thank you” to Richard. Warning: Spoilers ahead.
From producer Sam Raimi, Don’t move introduces Iris, played by The one from Yellowstone Kelsey Asbillea grieving mother still consumed by the loss of her young son Mateo. Viewers learn that he died in a tragic hiking accident, and Iris, who visited the fatal spot where he fell, seems to be contemplating a similar fate.
However, there is also a man named Richard (Finn Wittrock) and talks to Iris over the edge. He tells an emotional story about how his girlfriend Chloe, who graduated from college, died in a car accident that left him immobilized for months. He says that loss ultimately didn’t break him.
“Kelsey starts the movie helpless,” Raimi told Netflix Tudum. “She’s been through a lot and it feels like she’s reached the end of her road. I think through the interaction with Finn’s character throughout the film, even though it’s a tense film, it’s also a character film and she develops some she had lost – that desire to live.”
Iris decides to walk down the path with him, but she soon regrets that decision after he kidnaps her and zip ties her wrists and ankles. While she is unconscious, he injects her with a paralyzing agent that will take full effect within 20 minutes.
Don’t move Ending explained
‘Don’t Move’ is streaming on Netflix.
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The paralyzing drug takes 20 minutes to activate and an hour to wear off. But before the drug can fully take effect, Iris crashes the car and jumps into a raging river. She is carried into the backyard of an older man named Bill, but she can only blink to answer his questions.
Richard arrives at the man’s cabin and tries to get in by pretending to be her husband who is looking for her after a car accident. As his plan nearly worked, Richard’s phone rings, revealing his original lie that he had to borrow Bill’s phone after losing it in the crash.
Richard eventually kills Bill and sets the cabin on fire. Lying paralyzed behind the couch, Iris manages to have just enough strength to open and close the blinds, which alerts Richard to her presence and saves her life.
While in the car, Richard receives a call from his family, telling him that they plan to spend the weekend at his cabin. Now he is forced to change his plans with Iris. “We could have had such a fun weekend together,” he says, but now he has to “skip to the end.”
Then they stop at a gas station. Iris makes eye contact with a young boy whose mother suspects something is wrong, and she subtly calls the police. While their car is stationary, an officer pulls up to the vehicle. Richard tries to lie again, but the officer sees through his deception and finds the paralyzing drug in the car. Richard kills him too.
What happened to Richard’s girlfriend Cleo?
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Iris is still stuck in the car with Richard and slowly regains control of her vocal chords. She slowly begins asking him about his family, and viewers learn that he started killing people after watching his girlfriend die in a fatal car accident.
He revealed that the incident did not drive him crazy but helped him find clarity. “I have felt connected all my life. Until those moments after the crash. I can still see the crook of her neck. The way the light hit the glass on her lap,” says Richard. “And when I saw her take her last breath, I finally felt connected. I lived that moment over and over again, as I lay in that bed trying to figure out if I had felt God. And eventually I realized that I had. And He was me.”
His last words to her were “thank you,” because her death helped him realize that. Now he wants to experience that feeling again and again. “It’s kind of like a confusing therapy session for both of them,” co-director Adam Schindler told Tudum. “Whether he tells you the truth or not, there is a glimmer of truth in what he says.”
Why does Iris thank Richard at the end of Mafia boss‘T Movement?
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With his family arriving soon, Richard decides to ditch the cabin and head straight to the lake; he puts Iris in a rowboat and prepares to kill her.
But luckily, Iris regains her ability to move at the same time. While in the boat, she stabs Richard in the face with his own hunting knife and shoots him with his pistol. He falls overboard and somehow Iris is able to reach shore as the boat, which is filled with bullet holes, sinks beneath her.
She reaches the dock to look over it and see that Richard has also managed to get himself out of the lake. He bleeds out, but before he dies, she says “thank you” to him – the same words he said to his first girlfriend before she died.
Co-director Brian Netto told Tudum it was “thank you” at the end Don’t move has a double meaning. “It’s double-edged, because on the one hand she’s sticking it to him, but there’s a genuine realization on her part of, ‘Wow, OK, I owe this man my life because I didn’t want to fight for my life.’ before I met him”
Raimi said the “thank you” is much more sincere than it seems. “Kelsey put her heart into the film and really made that journey from someone who was hopeless, (to) someone who had hope again,” he explained. “I know that because I feel very moved at the end of this film. She has a soul and she knows how to give the audience a glimpse into it.”
He added: “I believe in the meaning of the word: ‘Thank you for inspiring me to live again.’
Meanwhile, Asbille told the streamer that the final moments mean “Iris chooses to live, not just survive.” She continued, “That resonated with me, desperately fighting to overcome something that made you feel paralyzed.”
Don’t move is streaming on Netflix. Watch the official trailer below.