Hey what's up guys.
Today I'll show you a thriller mystery film: "Greta"!
Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care!
The film begins with a young waitress, Frances, serving customers at a fancy restaurant in
New York City.
As her shift has ended, Frances has taken the subway to get home.
As she reaches her destination, Frances prepares to leave when she finds a dark green handbag.
Frances inspects it as she goes out, and finds an ID of a middle-aged French woman, Greta.
Frances goes to the lost and found to hand the bag; but nobody's there.
As the good samaritan that she is, Frances takes the bag home, where she lives with her
best friend, Erica.
She holds onto it until she can return it; but Erica dismisses her, and goes through
its contents.
They find cash, among other things; and Erica wants to spend it for some "me time."
but Frances firmly refuses.
Erica doesn't argue with her anymore; and they go to the movies later.
But before the film, Frances has tears falling down her cheeks, as she remembers bonding
with her mom through watching movies.
Sadly, she passed away due to cancer.
The following day, Frances successfully finds Greta's address, who invites her into her
home to thank her.
Not long after she comes in, they hear noises from the wall, which Greta claims are from
her neighbor, remodeling their house.
Greta goes near her piano, and shouts to her neighbor for a little courtesy, which they
give her.
After that, she returns to Frances.
As they drink their tea, the women get to know each other.
Greta's husband has long since passed away; while her daughter is living in Paris.
Greta changes the subject and plays for Frances, as she shares how her husband inspired her
to become a piano teacher.
As she ends up playing her husband's favorite song, Frances senses that Greta is lonely.
She changes the subject, and offers to help her find a dog to be her companion.
Greta kindly refuses her offer; but Frances leaves her phone number if she changes her
mind, before going.
Sure enough, later that night, Greta contacts her, and accepts her offer to find a dog.
Frances subtly comments about the danger of going out with a stranger; but Frances ignores
it.
Later that weekend, the two go dog shopping; and Greta takes home an old dog.
Over the next few days, Greta continues to contact Frances even at night, when she's
asleep.
Frances dismisses her strange behavior, as she knows that Greta needs someone in her
life.
Soon enough, the two strike up a bit of friendship.
However, her friendship with Greta slowly affects her friendship negatively with Erica.
Erica has had enough of Frances ditching their plans, and going out more with Greta.
Erica snaps and insults Frances that her friendship with Greta is getting weirder and weirder.
On top of that, she claims that Frances only uses Greta as her maternal substitute, which
dramatically offends Frances.
Before it escalates, Frances leaves and goes to Greta's house.
As they prepare for dinner, Frances looks for candles in one of Greta's cabinets, only
to hit a startling discovery.
It's full of multiple identical handbags, with the exact contents inside everyone.
She finds two bags with sticky notes on the back, where her name and contact number are
on them, along with a woman named Samantha.
Frances keeps herself calm; but she cannot hide her uncomfortableness during dinner.
So she lies about not feeling well to leave and goes home, where she shares her discovery
with Erica.
After discovering that, Frances stops answering her calls and messages; but then Greta starts
showing up at the restaurant she's working at.
Frances asks her boss to get rid of Greta; but when he refuses, she has no choice but
to face the woman she's been avoiding by herself.
Frances bravely confronts her about finding the other handbags, ends their friendship,
and firmly tells her not to return.
However, Greta continues to contact her, leaving explanations about what she did in the voicemail,
even sending her flowers as an apology.
However, Greta won't leave her alone.
She begins harassing Frances, by standing outside the restaurant to stare at her for
hours; and this freaks her out big time that she even calls the police.
To her dismay, the police cannot do anything, as Greta has not made threats or any indications
that she will attack; and since it is a public area, she has the right to stand there.
This causes her to be paranoid; so she repeatedly checks the area for any sign of Greta, before
leaving the restaurant.
But then, as she enters the subway, Greta surprises her; so she quickly gets off out
of fear as the door closes.
Frances watches Greta leaves inside the train; but as she reaches her apartment floor, Greta's
already there, standing and waiting for her.
Greta wants them to start again; but when Frances refuses to be a part of her crazy
life, Greta's expression changes.
She claims that people cannot keep leaving her, and then spits the bubble gum on Frances'
hair, before storming out of the building.
As soon as Erica comes home and finds out about this, she takes Frances to the police
station to get a restraining order.
However, the officer informs them that it could take months to file, as it's overcrowded.
The following day, Frances goes to the dog shelter, to ask how to remove a dog from home.
However, she needs proof of mistreatment to remove the dog from Greta's care.
Although scared of Greta, Frances gets brave, and goes to her home to remove the dog herself.
However, when she hears the door unlocking, she hides behind the trash bins, and watches
as Greta leaves with the dog.
There she finds letters for Greta's daughter but in Paris, as the envelopes were returned
to the sender.
Frances then attempts to contact her daughter repeatedly; but she always goes straight to
the voicemail.
And then one night, she's alone as Erica is out.
While checking if Greta is outside their apartment building through the windows, Frances answers
a phone call from her dad through their house phone.
Frances's relationship with him is a bit strained, as he buries himself in work after his wife's
death, as a way of moving on.
As their conversation gets heated, Frances receives a message from Greta.
It is a picture of Erica in a bar, meaning that Greta is stalking her best friend.
She immediately drops the phone call with her dad, and calls Erica in panic, telling
her to leave the bar as Greta is stalking her.
Frances stays on the phone with Erica, until she gets somewhere safe.
As this happens, Greta keeps sending pictures of Erica, each one getting closer and closer
to her.
Fear also strikes Erica; so she immediately gets on a bus that pulls up in front of her.
However, Greta follows her there too; so as she spots her finally, Erica tells her that
she needs help, because she's sick.
After that, she gets off the bus, and stops at a landmark to wait for Frances.
But then, she sees Greta standing across from her; but before she can attack her, Frances'
cab stops right in front of her.
Erica quickly joins Frances, escaping Greta.
The following day, Frances receives a phone call from a woman she met, later that rainy
day at a coffee shop.
The woman informs her that Greta's daughter is already dead.
She's been the daughter's addiction counselor for six years.
Greta's daughter killed herself four years ago, and had never been to France, contrary
to what Greta claims.
Also, Greta is not a French woman, because she came from Hungary.
Later that day, while she's at work, Frances's dad calls, and tells her that Erica has told
him what has been happening.
Frances ends the phone call, as her boss orders her and returns to work.
However, she must attend to Greta, who made a reservation, despite informing her boss
that Greta has been harassing her.
So Frances instructs another waitress to call the cops.
As she gives Greta her order, Greta insists that she only wants to talk.
but when Frances refuses, she snaps.
Greta torments Frances by causing a scene, smashing the wine glass, and then turning
the table over.
She then brings up Frances's mother, claiming she had to die for them to meet.
She starts advancing at Frances, who runs into the kitchen in fear for her life.
Fortunately, the restaurant staff steps in and restrains Greta, until the police arrive
to take her away.
However, Frances learns Greta was released from police custody the following day.
Because of this, Frances's dad wants her to come with him; but Frances doesn't want to.
So Erica suggests the slow fade technique to her.
She explains that she goes to Greta, apologizes, and says that the problem is her, not Greta;
and she needs to deal with her issues.
Frances takes her chance with this; but she meets Greta at a church, just in case.
She informs Greta that she will leave tomorrow to think things over; and they will meet when
she returns.
Greta then gives her a long and unsettling hug, which she endures before leaving.
As she comes home, Greta watches the dog take the milk she drugged, while thinking of Frances.
The plan seems to work as Greta doesn't bother her, or so she thought.
One day, while drinking her coffee, she hears the water dropping onto the floor.
So she asks Erica if she watered the plants; but then she starts feeling dizzy.
Frances sees Greta emerging from her bedroom, as she loses her strength and her vision blurry.
Greta lies to the cab driver, saying that Frances is her niece and is very ill.
She drags a drugged Frances into her home and takes her phone, before locking her into
a toy chest in a secret room behind her piano.
Frances suddenly wakes up in her apartment.
She's in panic, but feels relieved after finding Erica's there with her.
After packing her stuff, Frances bids goodbye to Erica, as her dad is already waiting outside.
She enters the elevator to leave; but the lift goes lower than the ground floor; and
the walls start closing in on her, almost crashing her.
It turns out, it was a dream; and Frances wakes up, locked in the toy chest.
She repeatedly screams to be let out, while banging on the door; and Greta goes to do
so, making it seem like a punishment for lying about leaving town.
Frances begs her not to close the toy chest again.
Greta agrees; but she keeps her locked up in that room.
Greta then starts playing the piano, while Frances tries to find a way to escape.
but the door and the windows are shut tightly.
Frances can only cry in hopelessness when she sees Samantha's ID.
Frances realizes that Samantha was kept as a prisoner in the same room she's in, which
adds to her lack of hope.
Greta goes through Frances's phone, and sends photos to Frances' dad from the gallery, making
it seem that she's on vacation with Erica.
Greta does the same to Erica, making her believe that Frances has the time of her life with
her dad.
She listens to the dad's voice messages, while keeping Frances hostage for an unspecified
amount of time, probably weeks.
One afternoon, Frances' dad goes to the city to see his daughter; but he and Erica are
confused, because Frances is supposed to be on vacation with them.
Reality quickly sinks in; and they both realize that something is wrong.
Meanwhile, Greta forces Frances to play the piano.
On the other hand, Frances' dad goes to the police to help find his daughter.
The detective pulls up Greta's file, revealing that she was a nurse, who mistreated and possibly
killed patients; and it was believed that she returned to Hungary. he wants his daughter
to be found at any costs.
At that same time, Greta keeps Frances hostage, by drugging her every piano session.
One day while they're making cookies, as Greta fiddles with the cookie-cutter, Frances slams
a rolling pin down on her hand, severing Greta's pinky finger.
As Greta screams in pain, Frances whacks her over the head with the pin, rendering her
unconscious and injured.
After that, Frances immediately runs to escape; but all the doors and windows are locked.
In a desperate attempt to be freed, Frances runs to the basement, only to find a dying
Samantha.
She gasps for air for the last time before dying; and then Greta suddenly appears, and
suffocates Frances until she passes out.
Then, she ties Frances to the bed, and locks her up.
The following day, The detective finds Greta's address and asks about Frances.
Greta lies that she hasn't seen Frances for a while.
Greta then invites him inside.
but as soon as Frances hears her name, she tries to get his attention by banging on the
bed, making the pendulum on the piano move.
Greta covers the banging sound by playing music, and claiming that her dog causes the
noise.
She goes upstairs to feed it; so The detective walks toward the piano, and realizes that
there's someone behind the wall.
He moves the piano aside to free Frances.
but before he can do so, Greta comes running barefoot, and injects The detective with some
kind of sedative.
As he slowly loses his consciousness, The detective repeatedly shoots Greta; but the
bullets disappointingly miss her.
Seconds later, The detective drops to the floor, unconscious.
but then Greta takes his gun, and kills him with the remaining bullets.
After that, she swirls around, hopping on her toes, dancing to one of Choplin's music.
Meanwhile, Frances can only cry in sadness.
Not long after, Greta dumps his body in a bag with chemical quicklime, and throws him
into the basement.
After that, she cleans the literal bloody mess on her floor, and fixes the bullet holes
on the wall.
As she does so, she tells Frances how her green leather bags brought companies to her,
and ended her eternity of loneliness.
The following day, Greta returns to the subway, and plants her green leather bag to find her
next victim.
As expected, a young woman with curly brown hair, takes the bag as she leaves the subway,
and goes to Greta's address to return it.
Greta gives her a cup of coffee as they chat; but then the pendulum begins moving again,
from Frances's continuous banging.
Greta tells the young woman the same lie she told Frances, that it's the neighbors remodeling
their house.
She steps away for a moment, and shouts for a courtesy before returning to chat with the
young woman.
Suddenly, Greta begins feeling disoriented; but before she loses consciousness, the young
woman reveals her true identity.
Erica takes off her wig, and tells Greta that she drugged her, just like what she did to
Frances.
As Greta finally faints, Frances bangs the bed more aggressively, until Erica finally
hears the pendulum ticking.
Erica immediately pulls the piano aside, unlocks the room, and frees Frances.
The two friends embrace each other tightly; and Erica helps Frances get out, when they
suddenly hear the piano playing, meaning Greta's awake.
Erica goes out despite Frances's warning to find Greta; but as it turns out, it's the
music player playing.
Erica turns it off; but she checks the other rooms just in case, while Frances steps out.
But Greta suddenly grabs her by the throat.
She tells Frances that she's her favorite before passing out.
Erica comes running, prepared to bludgeon her to death.
However, Frances stops her from doing so, and says she has a better idea.
The two places Greta in the toy chest, and locks it with an Eiffel Tower trinket.
The film ends with the ladies leaving the psychopath's den.
but unbeknownst to them, Greta has woken up, and she starts bumping the chest lid, causing
the trinket to slowly move out, implying that it won't hold Greta for long before the police
can show up.
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