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This thing almost didn't a review, but then I started to see a very ANNOYING pattern. Can you guess what it is?
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Neverlake
::SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SO MUCH SPOILERS! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED TO STOP HERE!::
I don't think this movie asked itself enough questions. It starts off with a girl going to stay with her dad, and on the drive home the girl screams because they almost hit a little boy. The dad never sees him and neither question wtf just happened.
Dad's obsessed with some lake and the girl has a lot of dreams about it, and wastes no time to go visit it. There she meets a blind girl who takes her to meet some other strange and ill children. One of which was the boy they almost hit the day she arrived to town, but she never asks who he is ow if he's okay or just "Hey it was nice running into you the other day. Almost LITERALLY."
The girl visits the kids frequently, only to read to them. We don't see if she ever talks to them about anything else, or ask about their connection with the lake, which they make obvious when they take her to visit it after she stays late one night.
Her father has her take pills and she asks no questions, even when her health seems fine without them. They're obsessed with her eating habits and always want her to have breakfast. Doesn't inquire about that either. She even ends up in the hospital and getting an operation but she doesn't ask for much detail on that either! WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS IDIOT.
ANYWAY. The kids tell the girl after a visit to the lake and summoning its spirits that they need help to go to rest, by taking the idols her father keeps in his study, and throwing them back in the lake. Which she actually does, AGAIN NOT ASKING WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH ALL THIS.
When she stole the idols she sees a TV on in the back of the room and playing cartoons. She actually wonders about this so after her father leaves the house again, she investigates only to discover she has what looks like a lobotomized sister.
Her dad walks in on them, and asks where the idols are. SURPRISINGLY the girl asks where the fuck has this child been her whole life, and finds that the sister is four years older than her and very sick, the only child he was able to conceive with the woman who is NOT our main character's mother but the real love of his life. They've worked very hard to keep her alive, operating on her themselves. It's then that the numbskull puts together that the little trip to the hospital was actually her loving daddy harvesting her organs to save his eldest child.
...Why the hell did her grandmother not cut ties completely from this madman. We're told that she didn't like him, that means she had to have known what he did to her daughter. ...If she was even the daughters mother I don't think that was made clear. I'm going to assume so because why else would she not like him. But anyway instead of making sure she never returns to him she's sent to the hospital after taking ill, and she goes back to live with him.
She runs, and her father chases her saying how much like her mother she was. It's poorly explained but I GUESS her mother was raped to create this girl so that her body could be used to save the sister. She couldn't outrun a parked car, as she just curls up twitching so that her deranged father could sedate her and finish what he started.
One of the kids she had been visiting comes to her aid, telling her to retrieve the 6 bronze idols that her father had made and thrown into the lake and then he just vanishes but somehow she's free.
She runs for the lake and her father follows. He... somehow ends up on the OPPOSITE side of the lake from her as she's taking the idols out of the water. She gets a few out, one of the children encouraging her on while her sister meanwhile is relapsing, foaming at the mouth and wounds appear out of nowhere.
For some reason the girl takes the idols to shore herself and counts them instead of just counting them and throwing them as she goes but whatever. Her father follows but the kid summons a lake medusa and she drags deranged daddy to the bottom of the lake and he's dead, his oldest daughter soon follows and the police show up at their house.
The girl takes her father's idols back to the kids and they each reveal that the idols represent something that her father took from them so he could keep his daughter alive. Eyes, legs, heart, to name a few. The oldest child, Peter, who was also the kid to help her through all this, gives her the key to where her father had them all locked up until he harvested what he needed from them. She finds one victim still there. Her mother. Who tells her the children where all her siblings.
Despite all the angry rambling it actually was a decent movie and had a very satisfying ending. I just can't believe how clueless this girl was through out it! It's obvious early on that there's something not right about the kids she meets, yet she doesn't ask questions. Her father acts very suspicious but she doesn't try to find out why. Her fucking health even was at risk and she never does anything to help herself! You almost don't care if she lives or dies just because of how unrealistically uncaring she is about everything. The only time we see her show ANY kind of concern is when her daddy breaks promises to do things with her time and time again. Priorities maybe?! HELLO!
Another thing is why does he keep all the kids locked up but didn't keep and lock up the main character? Why did she get to exist and have somewhat of a life outside all this insanity while her siblings were bred like expendable cattle and held until he needed them? A lot of things just don't make sense and it takes away from the story.
I think the moral of our story is: "Don't be afraid to ask questions. It might save you from a organ harvesting madman who might also your breeding crazy daddy."
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