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Follow us today to a horror-thriller film called: The Prodigy (2019).
Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
As the story begins, an extremely frightened young woman named Margaret St. James is fleeing
from an abandoned house through a wooded area.
She continues through the night, stopping in front of a nearby woman driver who narrowly
misses her.
Getting out to help, she sees Margaret's horrible disfigurement and her shouting out loud at
someone who has taken her hand.
Elsewhere, Sarah Blume is experiencing some pain with her son's early birth.
Her husband John comes to check on her, and gets Sarah ready to go to the hospital.
Back at the abandoned house, Edward Scarka, the man who captured Margaret, is building
a device of unknown use.
Meanwhile, Sarah gets an examination before her delivery.
Now we see the quick changes between two scenes when Edward hears police outside his home
and quickly comes to find Margaret missing from her captivity.
Sarah is in excruciating pain during her delivery, as John tries to comfort her.
Edward goes outside to confront the police, faking an attack and dying in a firefight.
As it turns out, he didn't have a weapon, only Margaret's hand in his own.
At the hospital, Miles Blume is born as Sarah and John get to hold him for the first time.
Some time later, during a playdate, fellow mother Rebecca notices Miles has two different
colored eyes, like famous singer David Bowie.
During a medical check-up, Miles gets an injection, but doesn't make a sound.
Sarah notices, asking Dr. Kagan if Miles is supposed to be this quiet during a shot.
Dr. Kagan reassures her that everything is okay.
Sarah also informs Dr. Kagan Miles has already begun speaking, much to Dr. Kagan's surprise.
Again, he states everything is fine, just that Miles is an early developing child.
More time passes, and Sarah begins to study on how to raise a genius child and tells John
that Miles is special.
She suggests they enroll him into preschool, even though he's two.
During the night, we briefly see Miles speaking in Hungarian in his sleep.
When Miles is five, Sarah takes him to see Dr. Strasser, a child specialist.
Dr. Strasser informs Sarah that Miles has an extremely high mental score, and asks about
his behaviors.
Sarah and Dr. Strasser discuss Miles's struggles in different areas of life and at school,
while Miles intently watches a young woman through a window in another area.
Years later, Miles is now 8 years old.
John comes and tells Miles to eat before finishing his homework.
Miles asks for some paprika for his food, and Sarah asks when he started liking the
spice.
Miles asks for a staring contest with Sarah, who agrees.
Miles doesn't want his parents to leave him with the babysitter, so Sarah assuages him
with a hug.
Out by a nearby lake, Sarah and John share a couple of drinks together.
They reminisce on their life before Miles was born.
Sarah is also worried about Miles not interacting with other kids at school but John insists
she stop worrying so much about him.
Back at their home, Miles is watching TV, but the babysitter Zoe cuts it off after a
couple episodes.
Zoe tries to deal with him by playing hide and seek before Miles goes to bed.
Zoe counts for Miles to hide, but Miles is still standing ominously in front of her.
Zoe then goes to find him, and notices a lightbulb is not working at the basement entrance, not
knowing Miles unscrewed it.
Zoe walks barefoot down, and steps on some broken glass placed in her path.
Afterwards, Sarah asks Miles about what had happened.
Miles claims to not remember how Zoe got hurt, and becomes visibly upset.
Another night, Sarah wakes up, hearing something in the house.
Going to investigate, she sees the family dog in the hallway.
She goes into Miles' room and hears him speaking in Hungarian again in his sleep.
Sarah quickly records him, visibly concerned.
Miles wakes up, claiming to be having a good dream.
At school, Miles and his class are working on a project.
He goes and demands to work with classmate Hailey instead of another boy, Dash, but is
turned away.
Miles calmly leaves the classroom, speaking Hungarian again.
He comes back with a wrench and promptly attacks Dash.
Afterwards, Miles is given a test by Dr. Strasser.
Miles infers a picture of a face as well as some hands from a "nice lady".
Miles also says he attacked Dash as to not be hurt anymore, but won't tell Dr. Strasser
who might hurt him.
Dr. Strasser wants to put Miles on medication and send him to another specialist.
Sarah gives Dr. Strasser her recording from the other night, and Dr. Strasser asks if
anyone has been abusing Miles.
Later that night, Sarah and John fight over her accusations of him abusing Miles.
John defends himself, claiming Dr. Strasser to be wrong.
They later reconcile and promise to figure things out together.
Again during the night, Sarah goes to check on Miles, tucking him into bed.
Before she can leave, she hears him cursing at her in his sleep.
Miles begins to eerily hum, but wakes up in a panic, claiming a man to be inside his head.
In her home, Dr. Strasser listens over Sarah's recording, making a phone call to Arthur Jacobson
after she has finished.
She meets with Sarah the next day to introduce Arthur.
Arthur questions Sarah and John's family history, and informs her that Miles is indeed speaking
another language, a rare dialect of Hungarian.
Arthur translates Miles' sleep talk, and shows that Miles was speaking about a woman's death.
Arthur asks about Miles' peculiar behavior, and tells Sarah a story about a boy he met
in India who was believed to have a reincarnated soul, and that soul had unfinished business
on earth.
He informs Sarah that Miles has a similar type of soul in his body, but an extremely
dangerous one, and that his original soul could be absorbed.
Sarah doesn't believe this and goes to leave.
Dr. Strasser gives Sarah a CD to listen to and tries to sympathize with her.
Back at home, the family has dinner, and Miles wants another staring contest.
At first, Sarah says no, but then accepts once she sees Miles upset.
He begins to hum that same tune as when he was sleeping during the contest, and rubbing
Sarah's hand.
Sarah becomes freaked out and pulls away as Miles continues humming.
Sarah inquires about the song, and Miles insists Sarah sing it to him as a baby.
In her room, she plays the CD from Dr. Strasser, which is about another family who had a similar
situation as hers has.
John comes in and asks about what she's listening to, but doesn't believe in reincarnation.
John tries to talk sense into Sarah, claiming Miles to be sick, and that he needs help.
Sarah goes to tell Miles to get ready for bed, and gets distracted by the dog.
She turns back and sees Miles with a completely different face.
She tries to confirm what she saw, but Miles' face is back to normal.
At school, Miles draws multiple hands on a piece of paper while humming.
He continues his eerie behavior at home, sharpening some garden tools while humming the same tune.
The next day John goes to call for the family dog, but it is nowhere to be found.
He goes to ask Sarah, but she hasn't seen it.
Sarah tells Miles to go help John look for the dog, but he doesn't respond.
John turns off the TV and makes Miles come along.
As they drive around the neighborhood, Miles thinks that their dog is dead, marking some
documented dog behaviors about them not coming back home.
Miles also says that everyone has to die sometime, even John.
John tells Miles not to talk to him like that, but Miles continues, bringing up John's father
and how he used to hit John.
John tells Sarah about the car ride, wondering how Miles knew about John's dad.
They find a crudely made camera behind a picture, and John loses it, snapping at Miles.
Sarah kicks John out of the house, and later gives Miles a bath.
Miles asks Sarah where John is, and what is wrong with himself.
He also tells Sarah that he has out of body experiences every night when he sleeps to
"make room".
That night, Sarah dreams Miles is in the hallway, and he cries that he is scared, and runs to
her, transforming into Edward.
As she wakes, she realizes Miles has been watching her sleep.
He asks to sleep in the bed with her, and climbs in.
Sarah is extremely frightened but says nothing.
Miles slides his hands across her and asks if she will love him no matter what, to which
she agrees.
She suddenly realizes there are a bunch of flies in the room, all over the house even.
She tracks the source to the basement where she finds their family dog's remains.
Miles appears behind her and offers her a hammer.
He blames the out of body experience for the dead animal, much to Sarah's horror.
Upon finally confirming the carcass, Miles begins to sob and Sarah tells Miles she will
finally get him some help.
She takes him to go see Arthur who uses hypnosis to find out whose soul is in miles' body and
what he wants.
Arthur begins the process and eventually speaks to Edward inside Miles.
Arthur gets no response until he speaks Hungarian, finally getting a response from Edward.
Delving into Edward's past, Arthur presses to reveal his name, but Edward switches gears,
blackmailing Arthur into lying to Sarah about his existence inside Miles.
Arthur tells Sarah that he was wrong about Miles and the hypnosis didn't work.
After Sarah and Miles leave, Arthur notices Edward's name on the couch where Miles sat.
When Sarah and Miles arrive back home, John is waiting for them.
Sarah shows John their deceased dog.
John worries for their safety with Miles around and suggests that they commit Miles into an
institution.
In the early morning, Arthur calls Sarah to warn her about Edward, telling her his name.
She looks him up, seeing he has two different colored eyes like Miles.
They come to realize that the same time Miles was born, Edward was killed in the police
raid.
Edward was a violent criminal who preyed on women, and was known for taking their hands.
Sarah hears a noise behind her, and goes to investigate.
John comes down as well, and Sarah tells him they have to do something about their son.
The next day they send Miles to school, and begin to put their plan in motion.
John arrives at Miles' school to take him out of class.
However, Miles ignores John until John yells at him to come.
Back at home, Sarah is packing some clothes for Miles and finds a book hidden in his closet,
authored by Margaret.
She sees old newspaper clippings about Margaret, and realizes that Margaret is the reason Edward
has reincarnated in her son.
John lets Miles know that he is going to be living outside their home for a while, and
becomes emotional.
As he is hugging Miles, John is attacked by Miles with a sharp garden tool, causing them
to crash.
Sarah arrives at the hospital to see John barely hanging on to life.
She then apologizes to John and tells him she loves him.
She confides she might have a way to save Miles as well as their family.
Sarah approaches Miles and asks what happened but he claims not to remember anything.
She tells Miles she can fix things but he has to trust her no matter what.
Sarah drives Miles to a shop, and then tells Miles he needs to take some pills to sleep
because she can't trust him just yet.
Sarah then puts her purchase, which is a new gun in her purse and drives away.
Arriving at her designation, she introduces herself to Margaret.
Margaret hesitates, but eventually lets Sarah in.
Margaret prepares some tea and sits to talk with Sarah.
Sarah begins to talk with Margaret about Miles, and finds out Margaret has a family she had
kept private.
Sarah becomes emotional and Margaret goes to comfort her.
Sarah asks to use the restroom, and once inside, begins to arm her weapon, apologizing aloud
as she does.
As she brings back the tea, Margaret notices her cat indoors and sees her front door ajar.
Margaret then turns and sees Sarah with a weapon pointed at her.
Margaret begs Sarah to reconsider, and Sarah eventually breaks down, unable to shoot.
Suddenly, Miles appears beside Margaret with his own weapon, asking her opinion about his
eyes.
Miles attacks Margaret multiple times, and Sarah rushes to stop him.
Margaret wounds one of Sarah's legs, and Miles uses that moment to finish off Margaret.
Miles then seems to freeze, then walks outside without a word.
Sarah tries in vain to help Margaret but it is too late.
She then rushes after Miles and after a short time, finds him kneeling.
She quickly realizes Edward has not left Miles' body.
He tells her Miles has been gone for a long time and that she was easy to manipulate.
Enraged, she aims to kill him, but instead is shot by a hunter passing by.
Miles runs to the hunter, as Sarah slowly dies in disbelief.
Some time later, Miles arrives at a new family while John recovers.
In his room, he turns to a mirror and Edward is staring back at him as Miles hums the all
too familiar tune.
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