![]() So, close enough.īrynn carries a personal trauma from a climactic childhood moment that is borderline biblical, and the film offers her - in the place of talk therapy and fluoxetine - a healthy dose of Third Encounters through which she can learn to live with herself. She doesn’t have any history of blogging, but she has been writing notes to herself for at least 10 years. She has no friends in the real world, and boomers hate her. She can only afford this house because it’s been bequeathed to her by a wealthy parent. Our heroine, Brynn, is the human embodiment of the millennials, dressing like Zooey Deschanel, working as an Etsy artist, and decorating her home with a cottagecore aesthetic that would kill on Pinterest. No One Will Save You is about the plight of the millennial. To put it bluntly: Millennials are fucked, and unlike Gen Z, who were born into the shit, many millennials had just enough time in the ’90s to see the before times, when their boomer parents could afford to buy a four-bedroom home off a single income on a typical office paycheck. Millennials are lucky to have affordable rent as they approach 40, let alone own a home, and many have lost a friend to opioids, the COVID-19 pandemic, or gun violence. Born into the economic largess of the 1980s and early ’90s, then raised through multiple wars, recessions, techno bubbles, terror attacks, and multiple drug crises, millennials are the first generation in decades to face more financial challenges than their parents’ generation. Grief is a frontrunner for the dominant theme of the millennial generation. Image: 20th Century Studios No One Will Save You is about the core millennial theme: trauma and grief It’s probably obvious, but there are spoilers ahead! It’s sort of like improv or high school debate club: Let the analytical corner of your brain run free. You don’t have to believe your reading is “correct,” but it’d be great if you were thoughtful, curious, and provided examples from the material that support the thesis. And in the comments, I’d like to hear your readings of this film. ![]() Neither are “officially correct,” but both, I feel, can be sufficiently supported with evidence. I will share two interpretations of the movie. When Polygon spoke with Duffield at length about the film’s repeated contortions of reality and its surprise endings, he said, “I wanted to play fair, but at the same time, I wanted Reddit to have fun.” The movie isn’t merely “open to interpretation” it’s a litmus test made of blobs of body horror. Director Brian Duffield’s alien abduction horror-thriller has no dialogue and multiple endings that contradict each other. I’d like to tell you exactly what No One Will Save You is about, but there isn’t a right answer.
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