"Seen and Heard" is a stunning new film from Netflix, which made viewers not only rejoice in the quality of the work, but also puzzle over the ending of the film. The project was released this year and instantly won both audience hearts and television ratings. Today we will figure out how the film ended and what is its meaning.
The ending of the picture tells us that, first of all, this project is about drama, about drama in relationships, which was miraculously disguised as an ordinary horror film. At the end of the film, hints and references to religiosity run through, which greatly complicates the narrative and makes it quite difficult to understand.
The plot of the tape revolves around a married couple. Catherine and George have lived together for a long time, they decide to move to a small town in one of the states of America. George gets a job at a local college, where he begins to teach, and Catherine does the housework. Their life goes on well and calmly, until Katherine begins to notice ghosts in the new house. The perfume ruins the marriage of George and Catherine. The girl begins to think that her husband is completely different from the person she once married.
Katherine learns that these are unusual ghosts, but cursed souls. It turns out that many married couples lived in this house before them, but they all broke up some time after they moved to this small town. All wives were sentenced to gruesome death by their husbands.
Over time, the viewer, together with the main character, finds out that the ghosts of men also remained in this house and they still want blood. The problem is that the spirits take possession of George and turn him into the same as they are. At the end of the tape, he becomes furious and kills his wife with an ax. Perhaps this is a reference to the Shining, do you think? By the way, this episode reveals a religious moment, because it turns out that the ghosts of men go to hell for their atrocities, so the fate of George is unclear.
At the beginning of the film, viewers meet a woman named Ella, who is seen by Catherine and her daughter Franny. The arrival of a mysterious ghost causes real horror in the house: the lights are turned off, lights flicker, and strange frightening sounds are heard. True, over time, this does not frighten Catherine at all, because she perceives the arrival of Ella as a kind of consolation for her soul.
It turns out that Ella is the deceased mother of the boys whom Katherine recruited (spying on her house). Ella's husband fell into a rage, shot all the livestock in the area, and then cracked down on his wife. Ella is called to help protect Catherine, because she considers it her duty to help defenseless women from her violent husbands. She begins to help at the moment when horrible ghosts take possession of George.
All deceased wives and Katherine are linked physically and spiritually. Physically, they are connected with the help of an old ring, which was worn by all the women in this house, and it fell into their hands for a variety of reasons. Spiritually they are linked through a common curse. It turned out that all the past homeowners were somehow connected with the mysterious magic that actually cursed their husbands.
Katherine wants to connect with Ella spiritually to learn more about the curse. She arranges a communication session and finds out that there are 2 ghosts in the house, and one of them is evil. This spirit turns out to be Ella's husband, who continues to appear in the house. Catherine notices that George is adopting the familiar ways of Ella's husband. He cheats, insults, hits and manipulates Katherine.
Especially strongly in the film is seen a vivid concept of the doom of human nature and destiny. All women living in this house are doomed to die a terrible death, to find their own curse, and men are doomed to show their true brutal face in front of a girl.
The picture ends with symbolic scenes. After George commits the murder, he is kind of cleared of the deaths of Floyd and Catherine. In the future, he also tried to kill his work colleague, the beautiful girl Catherine Justine, but the murder was unsuccessful, because the girl ends up in a coma. The woman comes out of a coma, ends up in the hospital and tells George that she remembers everything perfectly. At this point, normal life for him comes to an end.
He steals a sailboat and sets off into the distance. This scene automatically develops into a re-reading of the painting "The Shadow of the Valley of Death". In the background, the viewer hears the voices of two women. This is definitely Katherine and Ella. In unison, they say: "we are united, it means that we have become stronger." In the finale, it is clear that George will not be sent to prison, but he will definitely receive the punishment for what he did - he will go to hell! This shows the symbolism of religion in the motion picture.
The film is striking in that it pushes the boundaries of cinema, because in fact, many viewers and critics perceive the tape as an ordinary horror movie with ghosts, spirits and murders, but this is fundamentally wrong. The film carries an idea, a message and interesting plays on religious themes. The creators managed to speak out on a serious topic, using base mechanisms for this. The ending of the tape is simple and understandable, if you look at it from this angle: "the one who should be punished will definitely receive his punishment: in physical or spiritual form!"
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