Thelma is a 2017 norwegian supernatural thriller drama film directed by joachim trier. It stars geena davis as the lma and susan sarandon as louise, two friends who embark on a road trip which ends up in unforeseen circumstances. It all feels primed for a dark, miserable ending where everybody loses. Thelma is submitted to a series of exams to find the cause of her seizures and she thinks of anja during the tests. The longer the movie goes, the more that sex just becomes a means to an end. She phones her friend thelma geena davis and makes reference to a vacation they are about to take together where they will retreat to a friends rural cabin for the weekend. Follow the movie on facebook plot summary meek housewife thelma geena davis joins her friend louise susan sarandon, an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. The romance between thelma and anja is more compelling than the supernatural horror movie aspect, but the marriage of these elements is successful all the same. Like i said, thelma is a calm, low key movie for the most part. Thelma is especially interested in him, and eventually she convinces louise to offer him a ride.
Greatest movie plot twists, spoilers and surprise endings. Nov 10, 2017 just as a plot summary, thelma reads like an xmen spinoff or superhero origin story. Just as a plot summary, thelma reads like an xmen spinoff or superhero origin story. Soon she discovers that she has supernatural powers which are not completely under her control and faces its consequences. The supporting cast include harvey keitel, michael madsen, and brad pitt in one of his first major film roles. But its about as far away from those kind of blockbusters as you. Overall i suspect that the scenes in the movie were all real in the sense of a lathe of heaven scenario where thelma would dream and see weird stuff and the world would change around her based on what she dreamt. Thelma is actually, for the first half anyway, a remarkably quiet film. As the film opens, we meet louise susan sarandon, a waitress in a dinerstyle restaurant. The two friends go out on the road for a short vacation, but a stranger nearly rapes thelma, louise shoots him dead, and now the pair are on the run from the law.
The film is an international coproduction between iceland and the united states, and stars mads mikkelsen as a man stranded in the arctic. The writer, callie khouri, felt so strongly about this ending that she wouldnt sign off on the film unless she was guaranteed that the ending would stay the same. The way the two womens wardrobes morph and overlap throughout the film, until by the end louise is wearing a neckerchief repurposed from the tornoff sleeves of thelma s shirt. So anja really did disappear or was killed by the window breakage but thelma brought her back when her dream went another way. When anja disappears, thelma learns that she has telekinetic powers. It stars geena davis as thelma and susan sarandon as louise, two friends who embark on a road trip which ends up in unforeseen circumstances. Thelma and louise sex scene relied on brad pitt abs. Even on its own terms, as a bluntly obvious feminist parable, the movie is a self. The use of mythic structure, represented in the phases of the journey, is how the moral of the journey is explained. Perhaps trier and vogts movie doesnt in the end go satisfyingly for the jugular in the way a more obviously generic horror might, and its ending arrives with some of its ideas undeveloped. Thelma later sees anja out at a cafe, and soon shes being invited to hang out with anjas. Mar 07, 2011 thelma and louise is 20 years old, and to celebrate, 20th century fox has released a 20th anniversary edition of ridley scotts epic femaleempowerment movie. Thelma leaves things in doubt regarding its title character until the very end, but in the movies abhorrent ending, thelma kills her overly strict father and goes off with her lesbian lover. As thelma s physical state worsens and shes diagnosed with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures an.
Alternate ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. The movie contains everything from drama, mystery, supernatural elements, and. A sense of unanchored weirdness grows, from which direction we are never entirely sure, and the second half is exciting and horrifying as family histories are uncovered and quiet rage wreaks havoc. The are some scenes with cgi here, and they are very well done. Aug 31, 2011 the movie came out two decades ago, but its message has been lost. Just as a plot summary, thelma reads like an xmen spinoff or superhero origin. Thelma decides to return home where she recalls what she did with her family when she was young.
Even if youve never seen thelma and louise, you probably know two things about it. Thelma lives a normal student life away from her conservative parents. The fun part of joachim triers thelma is trying to reconcile its gorgeous, arthouse scandinavian look with its exploitationhorrormovie plot, which makes the whole thing feel like carrie. Thelma and louise 1991 plot summary movie mistakes. Thelma operates, too, like a thriller, or a horror film, filled with strange portents and seemingly supernatural phenomena. Thelma is loved by a gentleman who takes her away from norway. I watched thelma back when it was running through the film festival circuit. Thelma, a shy young student, has just left her religious family in a small town on the west coast of norway to study at a university in oslo. The fun part of joachim triers thelma is trying to reconcile its gorgeous, arthouse scandinavian look with its exploitationhorror movie plot, which makes the whole thing feel like carrie. Two womenlouise, a diner waitress, and thelma, a housewifedecide to escape for the weekend and go on a road trip to a cabin. Like many other 25yearolds, it has much to be embarrassed about.
One of the most memorable moments of the film is the ending. Sep 11, 2018 some of the best mindjob movies out there require several viewings to really fully understand just how good of a mindjob movie that they are. I would have rated the movie at four stars, instead of three and a half, except for one shot, the last shot before the titles begin. Mindjob movie thelma explained and unpacked taylor holmes inc. The movie opens with a scene of thelma as a young girl on a hunting trip.
In thelma, suppressing factswhether its your identity or poweris. Out hunting with his little blonde daughter in the forest, theres a deer in his sights, and his gun is at the ready. Nov 10, 2017 triers film also weaves a touching story of first love into its narrative tapestry, as a counterpoint to the more ominous plot threads concerning its namesakes mysterious powers. The freedom of the freeze frame in thelma and louise.
And in a movie where the central protagonist is from a family with such binary ideas of good and. Jan 19, 2010 two films, structured dramatically different in plot and character, thelma and louise and the shawshank redemption, offer deep insight into role that friendship and oppression play within human existence. The mythic structure of thelma and louise and the shawshank. It has certain romantic tendencies, but it was done in a not annoying way. The dread in thelma is not so easy to pin down, coming as it does almost totally through triers choice of visuals. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape thelma at a bar. The systematically unpredictable thelma is joachim trier and his teams. Mindjob movie thelma explained and unpacked or how you may not.
But she begins to realise that something is strange about her. Louise is wary of him from the very beginning, at first refusing to give him a lift but then relenting when they happen upon him again by chance. Thelma is a superhero horror movie about the terror of growing up. Her father thinks about shooting thelma in the head, but decides against it. But its engine is the emotional awakening of an extremely repressed girl, a girl who finds emotions so stressful it ruptures the fabric of her reality.
Towards the end of the movie, thelma dives deep into a lake and. International edition joachim triers thelma, part i. Thelma is a superhero horror movie about the terror of. Thelma is a housewife married to darryl, who only wants to watch football on tv while his wife keeps to the kitchen. Thelma is a lonely and repressed young woman from an ultrareligious christian family who has lived a sheltered life under the. After an intense police chase through the desert, thelma and louise choose to drive their 66 thunderbird off of a cliff rather than. I did think it dragged just a tad in the middle part, but both the beginning and ending is pretty good. Even on its own terms, as a bluntly obvious feminist parable, the movie is. Arctic is a 2018 icelandic survival drama film directed by joe penna and written by penna and ryan morrison. Thelma tells the story of a sheltered young woman who discovers she has an inexplicable power that materializes when she feels desire for a female student at her university. Nov 02, 2017 thelma is a shy young woman who has just arrived at university in oslo, leaving behind her two overprotective and very religious parents. Nov 10, 2017 thelma operates, too, like a thriller, or a horror film, filled with strange portents and seemingly supernatural phenomena.
The movie came out two decades ago, but its message has been lost. But instead bearded trond, standing behind the little girl, briefly but deliberately turns away from the deer and points the gun directly at the back of her head. Meek housewife thelma geena davis joins her friend louise susan sarandon, an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. The film stars eili harboe, kaya wilkins, henrik rafaelsen, and ellen dorrit petersen. Thelma 2017 after three exemplary art house masterworks reprise, oslo, august 31, louder than bombs, its fair that director joachim trier would finally put a foot wrong.
This is the catharsis shot, the payoff, the moment when thelma and louise arrive at the truth that their whole journey has been pointed toward, and scott and his editor, thom noble, botch it. Thelma, a shy young student, has just left her religious family in a small town on the west coast of. Thelma is a sweet and tender love story, which must have thrilled the closet victorian woman readers of romance novels. Trond henrik rafaelsen and unni ellen dorrit petersen. Kaya wilkins in her first film role does not give anja particular depth but she. Their choice to commit suicide by driving off the cliff symbolizes their rejection of a world that is dominated by males an enviro. But its about as far away from those kind of blockbusters as you can get.
Thelma dad tries to cure her and for few moments even he decides to kill her. The infamous ending of thelma and louise has been the cause of much celebrationand also much outrage. With all that beauty, its a shame the film seems so reductive at. Her husbands friend is also secretly in love with her.
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