[hannasanarion]

The movie drives me crazy, because they had an amazing premise and set up a meaningful metaphor, and then totally just dumped it.

I think at the beginning the doctor literally says "ignoring your problems won't make them go away", it's extremely on-the-nose, and the bulk of the film is about trust and teamwork and that seems like it's going somewhere, and then you get to the end, and it like... nothing. Nothing is learned. Nothing changes.

The doctor even comes back at the end and you go "oh boy here comes the moral when we learn what this movie really was about" and she's all like "yay now we can be blind to our problems together" roll credits. There was so much opportunity in the premise and it's totally squandered.

[hombre_fatal]

I was hooked at the start just for the Lovecraftian cosmic horror concept rather than some sort of moral metaphor (didn't notice) but it just goes nowhere after the cool introduction.

Though at first my reaction was "oh look, it's 'A Quiet Place' but with sight instead of sound."

Funny how we're here discussing it now on the front page of HN though. If this tweet gets picked up by HN and other large forums, then I'll have to give Netflix marketing a "well played."