The most watched Netflix movie is “The Pale Blue Eye”, with its bizarre ending.
Scott Cooper’s thriller The Pale Blue Eye The movie starring Harry Melling and Christian Bale quickly became the most watched. NetflixFollowing the case of a mysterious killer as the origin story for famed writer Edgar Allan Poe.
The Pale Blue Eye There are many twists and turns in this story as Bale’s character Augustus Landor and Melling’s young Poe seek to find a murderer who terrorized West Point U.S. Military Academy in 1830.
The film’s end reveals a deceptive truth.
Spoilers for The Pale Blue eye included above this point
The thriller and mystery genres invite more psychological and strange investigations
Landor was summoned to the academy by a young cadet who had his heart removed from his chest and was found hanging. The cuts were made to preserve the heart.
It is now known that Lucy Boynton’s character Lea Marquis, the character of Lea Marquis, was responsible for the removing the hearts of two cadets. Lea Marquis, the school’s doctor’s daughter, has seizures and is given only a very short life expectancy. Lea’s life was extended by the occult ritual that required human hearts.
Boynton said, “I believe it was a mixture of the way the character’s written and the context of that genre.” Yahoo Canada What attracted her to this character? “I believe this genre allows for more psychological, in-depth and strange investigations into characters. They’re always going be slightly different than you first encounter them to be.”
It was about figuring out how to present her to the crowd and then unraveling that. … It was for me, starting at the very end and working my backwards, trying to figure out how to filter these breadcrumbs into her true identity. This is always a fascinating and fun process.
Women should be aware of the expectations they face when presenting themselves in public.
Although there are many of them, The Pale Blue Eye The story revolves around the men, primarily Landor, Poe and Poe. Boynton’s character is particularly attractive in this narrative. Even though her actions may seem sinister, they are still within the context of a high expectation of women in patriarchal societies and how their lives should look.
Boynton stated, “I think that what struck me instantly about her, both from the script, and the book was that she seems to have something intrinsically that wants to push against it.” “You see she has a physical illness and that has made her vulnerable. I believe that this has made her reject vulnerability and make her more vulnerable to others.”
She said it was very interesting to see how Lea presents herself and develops in her “rejection of vulnerability.”
Boynton stated, “As a woman you are always aware of how you should present and be received.” “She is so intelligent and precise about this, it was just really satisfying to be able to kind of build that.”
“How she is therefore presenting to people outside the family versus how she is presenting to her family versus someone like Poe who unlocks something about her that is truthful and earnest. She is able drop the facade and you can see so many elements of her.
The final twist The Pale Blue Eye It is now that we learn that although the Marquis clan may have been responsible in the removal of the hearts from the victims, Landor committed the crime.
As we were assuming that Landor’s child Mattie (Hadley Robinson), was missing, it turned out that she actually committed suicide after she was raped by military academy cadets. Landor began his murder spree, not knowing that the removal of hearts would soon follow.
It’s thrilling to lose trust in your guide while watching a movie with twists like we see in The Pale Blue Eye But to truly grasp the complexity of the story for Landor and Lea, it takes great attention to detail.