Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, I'm Jan and in this video I'm explaining the shocking ending
of The Invisible Man, and the thrilling twists and clues that led to that big moment.
Plus, I'll reveal how the finale connects to the new Invisible Woman film.
Spoilers, of course, for the movie, so take care if you haven't seen it yet.
The film's first jaw-dropping surprise happens when Cecilia is at dinner with her sister,
Emily and out of nowhere the Invisible Man slashes Emily's throat and pins the murder
on Cee by placing the knife in her hand.
Leading up to this, Adrian has been slowly making Cecilia look and feel crazy, first
faking his own death, then stalking and terrorising her at her friend's house.
One of the first big clues foreshadowing Emily's murder comes when Cecilia is alone in the
house with The Invisible Man, and she decides to call Adrian's cell phone which buzzes from
the attic above.
Cee climbs up and after finding the phone together with a large kitchen knife, a text
message pops up with the single word "SURPRISE".
She can't figure out why there's a knife there, but the sign that it's a future murder weapon
is how it's already bagged like it's a piece of evidence.
When she's later locked up and drugged in a mental hospital for the crime and what everyone
thinks are her delusional ravings, an invisible Adrian whispers "surprise", tormenting her
that he had this moment planned all along.
The word, and idea of, "surprise" pays off in an even bigger way in the movie's final
twist.
When Cee goes to have dinner with Adrian, he still thinks he's in control and tells
her "I know you better than anyone else in the
world; that shouldn't come as a... surprise."
The way Adrian pauses, smiles, and then emphasises the word "surprise" is his way of letting
her know that it was indeed him who killed her sister and has been torturing her, not
just his brother.
His constant denials at the dinner table prior to this are yet another example of how he
gaslights her.
And so, sick of his continued abuse, Cecilia excuses herself to the bathroom, then off-camera
sneaks into the bedroom closet where she recovers the invisibility suit she hid there earlier.
Invisible now, she walks back to the dinner table and, aware of the security cameras,
makes him slit his own throat, mirroring the way he killed her sister.
As he dies, she whispers the word "Surprise!" showing that she's turned his own tricks back
on him.
By the way, notice how Cecilia decided they eat steak, rather than the sushi or pasta
she was also offered, for dinner, so that Adrian would be holding the knife she needed
to kill him.
And a clue that Cee would decide to wear the invisibility suit against Adrian was hinted
at in the hospital on a poster titled "You don't have to face yourself alone".
The poster features two silhouetted figures, and while it's obviously aimed at people with
mental health issues, maybe bipolar for example, it also plays on the idea of Cee using an
alternate invisible persona to deal with Adrian as well as the fact that we soon discover
that a second man donned the invisible suit.
Indeed, doubles and mirrors are a recurring theme in the movie, with Cecilia seeing a
reflection of herself in the bathroom mirror just before she puts the invisible suit on
to kill Adrian.
And part of the set-up for Cecilia hiding the second invisibility suit in the bedroom
closet comes in the scene where she goes for a job interview and the interviewer says
"we both know the value of closet space".
The comment refers to him starting his company in a supply closet as well as Cecilia's time
in Paris when she stayed in an apartment as small as a broom closet.
Which points forward to the film's finale, as well as back to the start of the movie
where Cee hid a go-bag in her closet to help her escape Adrian.
As we discover in another twist, Adrian's brother Tom was also his accomplice, helping
him fake his own death, and even once wearing the suit.
Tom claimed he'd been controlled by Adrian all his life.
And while that may be true, he still lied to Cecilia, feeding her false information,
essentially gaslighting her as well.
"Only thing more brilliant than inventing something that makes you invisible is not
inventing it, and making you think he did."
When Cee tells Tom he's just a 'jellyfish version of his brother', she means he lacks
a spine, but the fact that jellyfish are known for their translucent or transparent look
means it's also an intriguing nod to the fact that Tom will later wear the invisible suit.
Tom was always quite shady from the start knowing things he shouldn't, such as where
Cee was living.
Remember she received the letter about Adrian's will at James's house, probably because when
Emily saw the news about his death, she ignored Cee's instructions not to go there and Adrian
was tracking or watching her, just as Cee predicted.
Tom also knew Cee had set up a bank account for Sydney's college fund, again something
that should be private.
Most likely is that while Adrian was stalking Cecilia and breaking in to her laptop, he
was keeping tabs on her and relaying the info back to his brother.
As the saying goes, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world
he didn't exist, an idea that perfectly fits the character of the Invisible Man.
Even at the end of the movie, Adrian pretends he was never the Invisible Man and that it
was his brother Tom who was responsible for everything that happened.
Adrian flips the truth so far that he even claims he's the victim and that Tom was controlling
him.
The movie's writer-director Leigh Whannell has said that Adrian's emotional intelligence
and charm is a classic trait of narcissists and sociopaths who he describes as "scientists
of the human condition [who] can break someone down very quickly, assess their needs and
desires, and play to that."
Which is why Adrian is good at reading people.
For example, when they were still together, he figured out without her even saying a word,
that she wanted to leave him.
And his reaction was that of a sociopath: "Wherever you go, I'll be standing right behind
you.
I know you better than anyone else in the world."
When Cecilia was wearing a wire at the end and trying to get him to confess, you could
sense he probably knew what she was doing, and on top of wanting to gaslight her as usual,
that was another reason he refused to admit anything openly.
Likewise his comment that 'you're the only person in the world who gets to see my hand
shake' was a tactic to let her know that only she knows the truth about him and no one else
would believe her.
He also knew she was taking birth control pills in secret so switched them out behind
her back, essentially drugging her so she'd get pregnant, quite likely with Diazepam given
the very high level of it in her blood.
As Cecilia unwittingly continues to take the drugs, Adrian breaks into her email, sending
a threatening, incriminating message from her to her sister, which later provides the
motive for Emily's murder.
Adrian is constantly isolating Cee from the few people already in her life as well as
any new people she comes into contact with.
He also sabotages her job interview that could make her financially independent of his money
by emptying her portfolio.
And he later puts those architect plans that he took in the attic, together with the kitchen
knife, taunting her about what he can do to her.
He also sees himself as an amazing god-like figure, the master of everyone and everything
around him.
When they were a couple, he was such a control freak that he decided everything Cecilia did,
wore and said.
Even his dog Zeus wears a shock collar with tech of Adrian's own design.
And let's talk about the name he chose for that dog:
the ancient Greek deity Zeus is the king of all the other gods and men, which again highlights
how Adrian imagines himself as the supreme master and god of all.
And it's no coincidence that the location of Adrian's house is Celestial Drive.
As a genius inventor, Adrian uses his invisibility technology to psychologically and physically
terrorise Cecilia and those around her, to make her appear unhinged and, ultimately,
drive her back to him.
When Cee asks The Invisible Man why he cares about her, when with his wealth and power
he could have almost anyone, the answer that Tom later gives her is that Adrian needs her
because she doesn't need him, and that nobody's ever left him before.
Whannell has said that when he was writing his first draft of the movie, he felt that
the themes "of gaslighting, domestic abuse and not being believed or feeling like there's
an unseen threat" would perfectly fit a modern version of the classic invisible man villain.
And Whannell went on to say that "the horror genre lends itself to depicting the worst
of society's problems because it can illustrate our collective fears.
Cecilia's character is an example of what it's like for a woman to be driven to feel
'crazy' in the wake of abuse when no one around you believes what you're saying."
Ultimately, as Cee couldn't make Adrian admit his guilt, the legal options for getting justice
weren't available, so he would have continued to terrorise her as the Invisible Man if she
didn't stay with him.
Which is why Whannell says that with the ending, he decided "to give [Cecilia] some catharsis,
[as he] wanted [her] to feel free."
And so, as Cee walks out of Adrian's house, free at last, we can see from her open bag
that she's still got her invisibility suit, meaning she could easily be in a sequel or
possibly in Universal's The Invisible Woman movie which is already in development with
Elizabeth Banks directing and starring as the title character.
I wonder if the film will feature Banks donning the suit and using it to violently deal with
people who've evaded justice such as abusers.
After all, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the tone of the new film is "Thelma & Louise
meets American Psycho".
Although Universal have abandoned their Dark Universe which was going to connect their
catalogue of classic monsters, it seems there's potential for some sort of crossover, even
a very small one, if the studio did decide it wants to make it happen.
If they did choose to connect the two movies, then Cecilia could, for example, supply Banks's
Invisible Woman with the tech for the suit or they could even team up.
Either way, as Cecilia shows in The Invisible Man, stalking is a very real danger in real
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