9/25/2023 0 Comments What keeps you alive![]() Describing it like this may make it sound as a fairly good premise, but the story is worked out very poorly: thanks to its repetitiveness it gets rather tedious and predictable and it has heaps of plot-holes. Well, the movie would have ended right there and then, be it not for Jules to have survived the fall, and a cat and mouse game between the two starts off, where each tries to outsmart the other, using brute force as well as cunning schemes, up until the climactic end. There's given some vague motivation: the insurance money, but later on it's also hinted that Jackie kills for the sport of it. The first say 20 minutes we see them loving and making out and having a great time, and then, completely out of the blue, the one (Jackie) pushes the other (Jules) over a cliff and all of sudden we are to understand that Jackie is in fact a murderous psychopath and Jules her unsuspecting victim. ![]() The story is hard to tell without giving inmediately the major clue away, so spoiler alert!! It's about a young married couple that comes to spend the weekend in a remote lodge in a forest in honor of their first anniversary. Revenge (2017) might be far-fetched, but at least it is fun and doesn't leave the viewer feeling like they've been taken for a fool.Īlthough I applaud the makers of this movie to let their protagonists be a lesbian couple, and this in a very matter-of-fact way, without making a special issue out of it whatsoever, I had wished they had given it a better vessel to sail in, because to be honest: this is not a very strong movie. The way things actually play out is very contrived. Had Jackie given herself her injection without watching the video, the end wouldn't have made any sense. ![]() Had she logged onto her computer before she does, Jules' posthumous plan for retribution (yes, she very deservedly dies!) would have been a complete waste of time. After much more stuff and nonsense, the film closes with a totally contrived twist that requires Jackie to act in a very specific manner. And when she finally has the upper hand, having stabbed Jackie with a tranquilliser dart, Jules doesn't finish off her attacker (or even incapacitate her): she drives to safety, but then turns around around only to discover that Jackie has woken up and isn't very happy. While trying to cross a lake in a boat, pursued by psycho wife Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson), a neighbour on the shore asks if everything is okay rather than shout for help, Jules invites the neighbours round for the evening. Instead of using the cover of night to make her escape, she cowers behind a tree and falls asleep until morning. Victim Jules (Brittany Allen) does little to help her situation. The result is a film that is frustratingly dumb, with both women making unbelievably stupid decisions simply to further the plot. ![]() The other big difference is that, while Revenge acknowledges its preposterousness and goes all out for excess, What Keeps You Alive fails to realise how incredibly implausible it all is, aiming for realism. One notable difference between the two films is the main characters' sexuality, the couple in What Keeps You Alive being gay women. Guess what happens in What Keeps You Alive. Meanwhile, the lover goes on the hunt for the missing woman, but doesn't account for her lust for life and ability to fight back. She somehow survives this ordeal and crawls to safety, where she patches up her wounds. The night before last, I watched Revenge (2017), in which a young woman is pushed off a cliff by her lover. ![]()
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