THEn Togetherin cinema from today, Dave Franco and Alison Brie (husband and wife in fiction and in life), give a new meaning to the word together. Directed by Michael Shangs, he tells the story of Tim and Millie, Happy boyfriends like many who, after a small misadventure, end up in a nightmare of gigantic proportions. Their love relationship turns into a melted co-dependence Until the extreme. A story suspended between horror and psychological treatise that could question the very concept of couple.
Togetherplot of the horror film with Dave Franco from today at the cinema
On a cold and dark night, the police are looking for someone who disappeared in the middle of the woods. One of the rescue dogs undergoes a strange transformation. Millie (Allison Bree), chemistry teacher and Tim (Dave Franco), aspiring musician, They are giving a farewell party because they will soon move to another town. Surrounding their dear friends, Millie kneels in front of her boyfriend and asks him to marry her. He accepts enthusiastically. Their new home, which is found in the middle of nature, It needs some renovation works.
Tim promises to make some jobs to the electrical system. While the base of a chandelier unscrew, some mice falls from the ceiling, tangled together. They are all dead except one, which is dying. The gruesome discovery makes him restless: he begins to have some nightmares and sleep badly. On his first day in the new school, Millie meets Jamie (Damon Herriman) One of the teachers of the Institute who, accidentally, is also their neighbor.
Eager to patrol the area around the house, Tim and Millie choose a path but, surprised by a sudden downpour, they fall into a huge hole. They end, so, In an underground cave where a river flows. Waiting to be rescued, They are forced to spend the night there. Before sleeping, Tim drinks a little water from the stream. During sleep, it starts again to have nightmares. Upon awakening, Millie’s leg seems glued to that of the boyfriend But they blame the wet mold.
Alison Brie and Dave Franco in “Together” (Neon)
After some attempts, the couple manages to return home without help. They do not seem traumatized and joke quietly on their happy ending adventure. After taking a shower, Millie asks Tim to massage her shoulders. The man has a jolt: he perceives a magnetic force that attracts him to his partner. Inadvertently sink his hands along his body until he hurts them.
Together: what happens to Millie and Tim
The next day, while he is in the shower, Millie gets in the car to go to school. Tim’s body repeatedly slams against the glass, as if he had no control, suddenly stopping when the woman gets off the car. More and more worried, he starts doing some research on the past of the town and discovers that, not far from their home, a couple has disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
When Jamie goes on to greet them, he takes advantage to ask him for more information. The teacher tells them that, years earlier, a mysterious New Age group had installed himself in the woods, even building a chapel To celebrate their cult complete with bell with strange engravings. The small building, however, has fallen in ruins and the transferred sect. As soon as you leave, Tim makes fun of Millie because he was convinced that Jamie has a crush on her.
During the night, the woman wakes up and realizes that Tim is suffocating because he has swallowed all his hair. A discovery that destabilizes them. She would like to talk about it but he refuses and gets accompanied at the station because he has to play at a concert in the city. Arrived in the classroom, Millie finds a drawing of one of his students, two dogs united by the head like that of a Cerberus, remaining deeply disturbed.
Tim feels bad, he absolutely needs to stay close to her and, instead of getting on the train, lA reaches school. The two make love in the bathroom males But, after the orgasm, they cannot detach themselvesseem glued. A boy hears them scream and runs to call Jamie. Fortunately, they manage to extricate themselves and not to be discovered together. Once back home, they fight. She could be fired in the trunk and, without her salary, he could no longer dream of becoming a famous musician.
Review, cast and meaning of the film
The couple as a devourer of the identity of the individuala fusional relationship capable of canceling the distances of the ‘I “to become a single” we “with disastrous consequences in this case. The horror directed by Michael Shangs, Specialist of the genre as the previous one Rebooted, It works like a terrifying clock, making the hyperbolic consequences of love very very likely and equally impressive.
The fate of Millie and Tim is already written in the first minutes of the opening, When the woman makes the marriage proposal and adds, sinisterly romantic, to want to remain together for eternity. Net of some stereotypes typical of the kind of reference, such as to move to a provincial town in the middle of nothing to start a new life or the neighbor Gentile but disturbing, disturbing, The plot is deeply original, as well as its psychoanalytic interpretation.
It affects the fact that, in this case, it is The woman the emancipated and realized part of the couple, while the male remained in a teenage cocoon, A dreamer who does not even have a license and continues to pursue successful unrealities.
Alison Brie in “Together” (Neon)
To give even deeper to the meaning of the film, Dave Franco and Alison Brie thinks about it, helped by the excellent interpreter Damon Herrimanrecently seen in Better Man. A 3 -profile cast in which the third inconvenient is nothing more than what will make them united in all possible ways. The fact that the two protagonists are husband and wife also in life makes the whole story so intriguing It should be made impossible to remove the eyes from the screen.
The viewer absolutely wants to know how he will end, reflecting himself in the insecurities, hugs and sinister ties of a couple who does not break out. The visual effects and prosthetic make -up, equally effective, which make the transformations from two to one probably and never redundant.
How it ends Together (spoiler)
During the night Millie, like a sleepwalker, tries to strangle Tim That, to wake it up, he is forced to slap her. They realize that Something is happening in their lives and in their bodies. To make the situation incandescent is The confession of Millie, who informs him that he no longer wants to be with him. They sleep in separate rooms But, something even more terrible happens to the couple. They find themselves glued again and, to separate, they are forced to use a cutter to divide the strip of skin that keeps them united.
The next day, Tim falls into the underground cave where he discovers a disturbing fresco: Two bodies melted in one. At the same time, Millie visits Jamie. Despite not being at home, Enter attracted by the items from the attic. The TV is projecting a video, that of the initiatory rite of the sect New Age. Suddenly, Jamie is behind him and, in the dark, Millie glimpses a strange two -headed creature. After a frightening struggle, he manages to escape until he meets Tim, who has now understood who Jamie is and what is going on.
To end united like Siamese twins, Tim tries to take his own life to leave his beloved free but it’s too late. Millie was seriously injured. The two return home and the man puts their song, the ballad of the Spice Girls, 2 Become 1 (What an irony!). He confesses to her that she loves her and wanting to be with her forever. And so it will be.