Hey what's up, guys? The Explanation pro is here. Today I'll explain a Thriller/Action
film , TILL DEATH. Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care.
The movie begins one rainy evening as a woman reminisces in her car, driving through the
somehow quiet city. The scenes of the night she had, flashes through her clouded eyes.
She can hear the words of her lover- desperate for one last meeting, a request she coldly
replied with the fact that she is committed.
Emma Webster, has her commitment hidden in her car and tonight, she decides to wear it-
her ring finger no longer empty for a secret meeting.
Not even 24 hours has passed and now Emma goes to meet her husband at work. Walking
to his office, his secretary hands her a bouquet of white roses and greets her with a congratulations
for their anniversary by the door. She returns the greetings with a thanks and a smile, and
proceeds to the room.
Her husband's office shows enough of who he is- clean and organized; there's nothing much
to see there aside from the folder on his desk with "CONFIDENTIAL" written over it in
bold. Curious, she opens it.
A scream of help, her own voice, rings in her head as she holds one photograph in her
fingers. At that instant, a man clothed neatly in shades of gray enters the room, getting
her attention with an endearment as mushy as a pumpkin. Mark Webster, her husband in
suit and tie- an attorney at law.
Knowing about the file sitting on her husband's desk and why it is there, Emma voices out
her reproach. For what husband would actually try to work on the parole of his wife's assaulter?
Her pain however, does nothing to bother the man whose thought is about keeping the lifestyle
he has.
Without much argument for her to win, she follows her husband as they set to go for
dinner. At the elevator, however, her breath hitches as another man enters after them.
It is the very man she left behind last night, Tom as what his husband had called him just
now. It is Tom who addresses her husband with a “Sir”.
Relishing the taste of the luxurious wine after their meal, Mark pulls out a box the
same color as the dress she’s wearing- velvet. It is also the color that occupies most of
Mark’s office. As she opens it, Mark explains the choice of gift. Tonight being their 11th
year, a steel-made necklace, customized for her, definitely suits the occasion. She compliments
the gift with a hint of a smile.
At that very instant, one lady gasps with an overjoyed “Thank you” just a few tables
away from them. With that, Mark points out how she was that few years ago. Ignoring his
remark, Emma slips an envelope from her pocket and slides it over the table. It has tickets
for the Super Bowl with Mark’s favorite team. Well, the all-knowing Mark has just
have to decline it saying the team will just flop. It is an uncoated, “No!” that turns
her proud smile sour in a matter of seconds.
After a visit to the toilet, the couple are ready to leave the restaurant. However, Mark
still has something for Emma.
Able to convince Emma with the blindfold, Mark drives them off somewhere. Emma on another
hand, getting uncomfortable with seeing nothing for hours, and Mark not giving her any hint
as to where they are going, becomes irritated. Fortunately for Mark, it’s only meters away
from the lake house when Emma decides to get off her blinds. It’s the lake house that
holds their memories of fun and love and romance.
At the lake house, Emma goes around and sees the efforts done to put up a surprise. Scented
candles are everywhere with rose petals scattered around, a room even has pictures of them hanging.
Impressed, she goes upstairs where her husband is waiting- a pair of wine glasses in his
hands and a speech prepared to capture her heart. And so they dance through the night
in the music of their romance.
Morning comes and Emma wakes up freezing and not to mention having the aftereffects of
alcohol. Slowly, she opens her eyes to see Mark already up and dressed. Mark asks her
about her sleep. Thinking that he does not really expect an answer, she turns to get
up instead.
Getting up, Emma notices a weight on her wrist. She checks it and sees a chain about a foot
long connected to her wrist, another end of it by Mark’s wrist. Aghast, she quickly
questions Mark. Turning around to look at her, Mark does not bother to answer. Instead,
he points a gun on his head and without any further thought aside from saying, “It’s
time to wake up,” pulls the trigger. Without the time to actually react with her husband’s
action, Emma can only gasp as the man falls on her lap.
Cuffed with her husband, or rather her husband’s corpse, Emma wants nothing more than to get
rid of the chain and get out of the place. However, her situation is deemed helpless
as they are in a lake house hours away from the city in the middle of a snowy winter.
The phone does not work and the gun only had that one bullet that killed her husband
Dragging her husband across the room to a closet to find for something- something that
can help her in any way possible, Emma finds a vault hidden by a dress- a white one. Looking
back at the body by her feet, she realizes, it’s a wedding dress as Mark is dressed,
only seeing it now, as a groom.
Instead of wearing the dress, Emma chooses to have the one that Mark has on and uses
the wedding dress to support the now lifeless body, as she needs to drag it with her.
She searches and finds nothing, not a tool to help her. Even her feet, she has to wrap
with fabric for the lack of any footwear around the house. And as the house is getting much
colder by the hour, Emma decides to drag her husband- having left the world, is now in
the state like when he was just welcomed in it, out of the house, into the car.
Turning the car engine, her no less than an object of a husband now at the passenger’s
side, Emma finds a momentary relief as she holds her hands by the heater until the car
coughs in complaint. It’s out of gas. Checking the fuel inlet, she finds a cut hose waving
at her in mockery.
Her spells of displeasure cut into a gasp as suddenly, she hears Mark’s voice. By
impulse, she looks at his side before realizing that the foul music is from the car’s speakers.
Foul indeed, as each word explains his arrogance, vengeance and contempt.
With no escape offered by the car, Emma gets back into the house. Moments later, Emma finds
herself lying on the floor next to her husband, exhaustion filling her in as she has been
dragging the body up and down a couple of stairs around the house, for a couple of times
add to it the number of times she has bellowed streams of unforgiving words. However, not
one to just lie down and wait for her fate, she stands up again.
This time, Emma stands before an exhibit of her photos, all hanging from a line. There
are pictures of her battered self- black eyes, slashed nose, chapped lips and scratches all
over her face. Some are pictures of a crime scene marked by evidence. However, one picture
stands out that it brings Emma the imagery of a man, closing up on her with a knife that
did not fail to stab.
Willing herself strong, she looks away from the picture and instead, drags the body with
her to a digital record player with the words “Play Me” sitting on it. Emma presses
the play button and hears a recording of herself. It is a record of her investigation statement-
those very words of her recalling that night of abuse. Listening to it, Emma boils up and
thrashes everything in the place- as much as she can with a weight on her now bruised
wrist, that is.
Minutes pass by as she gathers her breath. Then, comes the sound of a vehicle and a couple
of knocks follows it. It is Tom. As Emma asks why the holy guacamole he is, is at the lake
house, Tom retorts about a message he supposes was sent by her.
Emma decides Tom has to know about her situation with Mark. Just as Tom enters the lake house,
complaining about the unsightly display of his boss and at the same time asking why in
the world the man did what he had done, realization dawns on him- which in turn is an enlightenment
to Emma- Mark is dragging her with him to the downs of the earth as the man who had
always wanted to keep his high profile, is faced with derogatory records and scarring
injuries for his career.
Having connected the dots, Tom calls Emma’s attention to “manage” the truth and piece
Emma’s story together with his before they call the police. However, Emma is adamant
to just call the police and tell everything. Everything! She manages to convince him as
she relays her day of dragging around her nightmare and pointing out that Mark’s bogus
of a message to Tom is not for the latter to save her.
Realizing his phone is left charging in his car, Tom turns to get it. However, as soon
as he steps out, he notices a car few meters away on the road. He recognizes it as the
one on his tail just before he gets to the lake house. He asks Emma about it. She does
not recognize it. Having an air of suspicion on the vehicle, Tom decides to handle the
guy who in just a few minutes approaches the house.
The guy introduces himself as a plumber contacted by Mark the day before. Soon after, another
man gets out of the car and without so much of a word from him, stabs Tom in the stomach.
One time, two times and more even with the plumber shouting “Bobby” to stop him.
Emma sees that Bobby is the one who assaulted her ten years ago. Entering the house, with
Jimmy the plumber following him with strings of apologies towards Tom, Bobby searches the
house. Emma hides.
Jimmy, still recovering from the shock he has, notices the line of blood running around
the house and out to the shed. Curious, he follows it. He is in for another surprise
as he sees Mark’s body lying on the cold with nothing but a pair of shorts- super short
ones. He runs back to bring Bobby to see it. Bobby confirms it is the man who hired them.
It turns out, Bobby and Jimmy are after the vault- that one shadowed by the dress in the
closet. Now, they are in need of codes to open it and so are after Emma for it. Behind
them, Emma actually hears everything as she holds her breath in hiding.
Emma finds hope in a tank of fuel from the shed. With escape from the thieves now in
her head, she fills the car’s tank with it. However, as she is doing it, Bobby senses
it in the garage and pokes a hole on the front wheel. Seeing that, she cautiously runs out
and this time, gets into the basement through the trapdoor outside. From there, she gets
back to the house and thanks to the car key she has managed to get somehow, she manages
to distract the two guys and gets Tom’s shoes for herself.
Emma’s stint proves to Bobby that she is still in the house. Convincing Jimmy, together
they search the house for Emma. As they do, Bobby notices a banging sound on the floor
above him and so goes up to check it. Little does he know that he is in for a trap as Emma
emerges next to him, a golf club in her hand as he opens the cover of a rocking chair,
rocking alone, hitting Bobby and making him fall on the next floor. Next, as Jimmy comes
over, she does not miss the chance to also give him a beating and runs to the car outside.
Things happen quickly as Emma gets herself trapped in Bobby’s foot after she manages
to scream for help through Tom’s phone in his car. Another foot on her, puts her to
sleep and when she wakes, Emma finds her husband’s body on the floor next to her. And this time,
she is under Bobby’s mercy as the man asks her for the vault’s code.
Opening the vault Bobby thinks has diamonds, the three of them finds out that the stones
are in her necklace. Jimmy tries to help Emma get the necklace off her as Bobby thinks of
cutting her up. With so much of a struggle that later turns into a squabble, Bobby accidentally
pins Jimmy on the wall with his knife putting him to sleep. Emma and Bobby then turn to
each other.
They get into a chase outside. Emma crawling after a stab on her leg and Bobby dragging
Mark’s body now being the one cuffed with him after her. Catching in on her, Bobby tries
to also pin her on the ice with his knife but doing so, he breaks the ice instead and
the three of them falls right into the icy lake.
The movie ends as Emma gets out of the icy pit, lying flat on her back as sirens announce
their arrival.
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