“The feeling in the movie that things are coming to an end is not some fictional, alternate version of our world,” says director M. Night Shyamalan
) and their daughter Wen —who, while vacationing at a remote cabin, find themselves at the mercy of four armed strangers demanding they willingly sacrifice one of their own to prevent the apocalypse. Only these aren’t your typical home invaders.
The mismatched group is composed of hulking yet soft-spoken teacher Leonard , concerned nurse Sabrina , motherly diner cook Adriane , and brash ex-con Redmond . “We were called and are united by a common vision, which has now become a command that we cannot ignore,” Leonard offers upon their arrival. “If you fail to choose, the world will end.” For the next 90 minutes, we become attached to the captives—then watch them struggle to choose.
Before Shyamalan put his own spin on the source material, the screenplay was initially floated to him as a producing option. “I wasn’t really thinking of it for myself,” he says. “So when it organically came back to me to consider [writing and directing], it felt very exciting.”Indecent Proposal . “I love when a question is asked of a protagonist that makes you put yourself in their shoes to make a decision,” he says. It’s what he calls a “jury movie,” a thriller with a more nuanced take on the mind-bending final twists thefilmmaker became known for early in his career. The film is not just about making an impossible choice, but whether to believe the strange messengers presenting the choice in the first place.
For Groff, that line of thinking greatly influenced his portrayal of Eric, the measured and thoughtful counterpoint to Aldridge’s passionate and quick-tempered Andrew. Eric goes to great lengths to try to understand his captors’ point of view. “For better or worse, I’m quick to believe,” Groff says of his offscreen personality. “I’m not a religious person, but I understand having a deep desire to believe in something.
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