![]() When you spelled it out and tried to wrap it up in a bow at the end, it just lost its power." That to me was more in keeping with the theme of the movie. "Core even explicitly says there is an answer, we just don't know it. "As far as Medora, we have people throughout the film chime and analyze her, but it's never the correct answer," Saulnier says. I don't have a memory he isn't in." Pretty telling, especially on a second watch. ![]() She responds, "I didn't meet him anywhere. Indeed, when Medora is walking with Core, he asks her if she met her husband in the village. When she takes Core around, she says everything." So where should you pay especially close attention? "From the first time we meet Medora," he says. "There's actually lots of clues about Vernon and Medora in the movie." Saulnier says he shot footage that reveals the true nature of Medora and Vernon's relationship, but he ultimately decided it was better off left unspoken. ![]() She was convinced that his birth meant the death of her." In one portion it reads, "The first day she was alone with her child she fought an urge to toss him into the fire. They're twins, which obviously makes the fact that they live as husband and wife a bit strange, to say the least. And while Saulnier's film doesn't really assign a motive to Medora's infanticide, Giraldi's work describes her emotions surrounding the birth of Bailey. Though the connection between Medora and Vernon, two Nordic-looking people who stand out amid the largely indigenous population of Keelut, isn't defined on screen, it is in the text. The film is based on a novel by William Giraldi, which gets a little more explicit as the plot unravels and the bodies pile up. "Once I committed to the project, it was cathartic and positive for me in that it helped me deal with the frustrations of trying to every day figure out what the fuck we're doing to each other, why humans behave the way they do, why we're so inherently violent and tribal and sort of act counter to our best interests," Saulnier says. There's certainly something strange about their relationship, but it's unclear what, exactly, and this uncertainty becomes one of the central themes propelling the plot. Meanwhile, her husband Vernon (Alexander SkarsgÄrd) is returning from war to find his kid dead and his wife missing, which sends him on a bloody hunt. Core finds the body wrapped up in her basement, and Medora has disappeared. Stone asks writer and researcher Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) to come and find the creature responsible, but soon after Core arrives he discovers a much different scenario. One such child is Bailey, the son of Medora Stone (Riley Keough). Hold the Dark is a surreal mystery about a fictional remote Alaskan village, Keelut, beset by wolves that are apparently taking children. But even though you may wind up feeling a little perplexed as to what you just watched, director Jeremy Saulnier tells Thrillist that the movie is peppered with clues as to what's really going on in the surreal, violent, and snowy landscape. The new film Hold the Dark - which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is now available on Netflix - does not offer easy answers.
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