The last picture of the new horror film is played to laugh, but there is also an underlying melancholy.
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Spoiler ahead for the action and the end of Together.
There will always be a perverse thrill if you run real couples on the screen a relationship and even better if this fictional iteration is in dysfunctions. Watch out TogetherMichael Shank's' body horror comedy with a married couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco. Eyes far closed or Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? These films like this show no married bliss or not at all domesticness as a deep putrefaction in the core of their marriages. In TogetherThe cracks begin a little smaller, with Bries Millie and Francos Tim in the ordinary dispute, which comes from a long -term union. When the film goes into the supernatural, the darkness becomes clearer and culminates in one end that is somehow disturbing than TogetherPreduction – even if it makes the audience laugh.
Millie and Tim are not married, a point of dispute between them. You also have no sex, which is either a symptom of your distance or part of the cause. When we meet you, organize a way to move to the country before moving new teaching jobs for a millies, a step that will bring Tim's musical ambitions to a standstill in this process. All of this is a source of the resentment, whether spoken or suppressed. “When I die, I don't want another life to flash in front of my eyes,” Tim's band -mate needed him. While all relationships require compromises, Tim clearly fights with the control mill that Millie seems to have about her collective future. It does not help that he is haunted by a traumatic event from his past – after his father suddenly died, his mother had a psychotic break and he discovered her in bed next to her husband's rotting body. In the relationship, she had been completely lost in the relationship that she could not work without him and had replaced reality so that she did not notice the smell of decomposition or even that Tim's father was dead. It is one of the more extreme examples of code donation and mental illnesses that you can imagine, but for a man who feels trapped in a relationship in which he has lost his independence, it is a useful metaphor.
But there is still a strong metaphor on the horizon when Millie and Tim go on a hike near their new house and are temporarily caught in an underground cave. Tim drinks from a water pool (never a great idea), whereupon he has strange symptoms. He cannot be physically refrained from Millie and feel attracted to her, even if the buried tension of her relationship increases to the surface. “If you think I have caught you, why don't you do a damn again?” Millie demands at a heated moment. “I can't,” replies Tim, and that turns out to be true. When he tries to return to the city for a performance, he cannot get on the train and instead pulled Zombielike to Millie's school. In the end, they have poorly advised sex in a bathroom stand and then discover with considerable horror that their genitals are stuck together. (The quick shot we receive from their unstocked organs can be Together'S The most terrifying picture.) Although they finally tear themselves apart, Tim's state is contagious. If the couple later tries to sleep in separate bedrooms, wake up and find that their bodies are pulled together like magnets until their arms merge into a mass of skin and bones. “If we have not divided now, it will be much more difficult later,” explains Millie before cutting the connective tissue with an electric saw.
But the transformation that Tim and Millie can stand Only A metaphor – at some point we get something that resembles an explanation. The cave in which it fell was a burial temple for a religious sect (read: cult), which was driven by Aristophanes. Origin of love mythAs in Plato's outline symposium And also the Song by Hedwig and the angry centimeter. We were all complete with two faces and two arms and legs on each side. Zeus cut us into two parts, and now we spend our lives looking for our lost other half. When we find ourselves, we are brought together by something that goes beyond simple attraction, a real wish to be formed back into a whole. It is a nice story (especially when Hedwig sings her), but it is a real horror to see it literally. Nevertheless, this apparently lost cult that was aiming for and they used the water to merge with their chosen partners. In the third act of the film, Millie discovers that the friendly with teacher Jamie (Damon Herriman) is actually a supporter of the sect – he is indeed the fusion of the man he describes as his husband and both live in the same body. He cuts a deep cut into millies arm and tells her that it will accelerate the connection process that she can no longer fight against.
When Millie returns to Tim, he is ready to die for her, and he only knows that he keeps her body from fusion together. She is the one in the door of death after she has lost enough blood that it looks like she won't make it. Millie loses consciousness, and if she comes to you, Tim has her arms back into merging. “I tried to let you go,” she says. But he chose an alternative path where they are never separated. While listening to the Spice Girls “2 will 1” -the most used needle drop of the latest memory -Tim and Millie become naked and press their bodies together. We see how your lips, skin and even eye apples meet and merge. It's gross and a little romantic. The music swells, the very real chemistry between Brie and Franco Sizzles, and we see how Tim and Millie finally arrive on the same side. In view of the loss, they have given up all persistent doubts and commitment problems in order to form a union that can never be broken literally. And yet! The more you sit with the decision you make, the less it seems. What seems to be the next thing first Together Could reveal a happy ending to be something much darker – the nightmare end point of a relationship that is so coding that both parties have completely abandoned their autonomy.
This reading is underlined in the last scene of the film. Millies parents appear to visit and are greeted by an androgynous strangers on the door – we call them Timillie. These have become the two, a version of themselves that looks a bit like what would happen if Conan O'Brien's would happen “If you combine” Segment had come to Alison Brie and Dave Franco. It is a punch line of a final picture, and the film ends before we have to deal with the resulting confusion and distress of the parents. But even if it is played to laugh, there is an underlying melancholy too TogetherThe last blow. Whatever Tim and Millie once independent and self -ibban was destroyed. Your life is no longer her own. As Aristophanes tells it, those of us who find our other halves would be the opportunity for Hephaestus, the god of the smithy, back into one. Together demands the romance of this idea. Of course, it is beauty to become a “we”. There is also a danger that you have the “we” to be subsumed to the extent to which you lose yourself. This is the warning in the heart of the film, a film in which two people find their way back to each other. Yes, Millie and Tim are entirely, but at what costs?