What Makes This Movie (And It's Big Twist) So Horrifying

Incendies is a 2010 movie directed by Denis Villeneuve, a director now famous for masterpieces like Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and Dune. And, in my opinion, this Oscar-nominated foreign film has one of the greatest and most brutal plot twists in cinema history. And yes I want to talk about it.

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[kevindavies-voiceovertalen]

The film was excellent, but I think it's unfair to leave out the name of the author and playwright: Wajdi Mouawad. He grew up in the Lebanese civil war and escaped France with his family when he was 8, eventually moving to Montreal in 1983. He is a fantastic author and theatre director, and doesn't get enough credit for creating this fantastic story. Denis Villineuve gets most of the credit for bringing it to cinema, but it wouldn't exist without Mouawad.

[shara]

And the irony of the kid she had with the good guy she loved, turned out a monster, while the kuds she had with the monster, regardless if who he turned out to b, turned out good

[morganleanderblake]

That particular kind of gasp, my old theater director called an anguished gasp, where you have to try and scream while you gasp. It's a uniquely horrible sound and usually you only hear it a few times in your life but it puts the hair up on the back of your neck.

[DiscoverMontréal]

Great video! I have a great story about seeing this in theatre in Montreal in 2010. I realized the twist in the preceding scene when Simon is told their brother worked as a guard at the prison. I gasped out loud in the theatre and someone a few rows ahead of me turned quickly to look at me as if "what did I miss?" When Simon asks Jeanne afterward "does 1+1 make 1?" he then gasped out loud having realized the twist. My friend sitting next to me still didn't understand, until the film then explained it and then she gasped. It was a theatre of people gasping at different moments as they realized the shocking twist. One of the greatest theatre experiences of my life. I rode the metro home after in complete silence, the film playing in my head over and over. I'll never forget this film! Great video analysis!

[alenemarie]

The horrible thing is he never knew who she was. That’s just awful and horrible and heartbreaking in every situation. That poor mother. The poor son. The poor siblings.

[sobre]

It’s crazy that this movie is so criminally overlooked, even after Villeneuve went to Hollywood

[Msmithjonesraven]

Today people don't realise how shocking this was at the time when this movie came out, like I remember watching and when I put everything together I was like how the sister reacted. It was insane as my body went cold.

[PeloquinDavid]

My favourite Villeneve film also... A modern Greek tragedy that I've taken to calling the most horrific yet inspiring "Mother's Day" film ever - largely because "the Gasp" at the revelation wasn't even the most emotional point in the film for me.

What hit me hardest was the reading of the letters - the two to the One and the one to the Two - as well as the dedication in the very final credits "À nos grand-mères" ("To our grandmothers")...

[LeDodgyLodger]

That name is so genius then. They aren’t decendants of their father. They are Incendies of their brother.

[Aikidjam]

Did you know that Incendies is actually an adaptation from a Theatre piece that is part of a trilogy made by Wajdi Moawad (Lebanese Canadian writer)
If anyone has the chance to see them, they are beautifully put on stage, with a stunning scenography and a heart wrenching plots

[fennydobson]

That is the gasp you make when you're at home and realised you've been on mobile data for the past 8 hours.

[openbooksalot]

i had never heard of this movie until i stumbled on your video, and i realised a few minutes in that i didn’t want the twist spoiled for me so i went and watched it and then came back. what a masterpiece! even knowing there was a twist, i wasn’t ready for the reveal until the moment the warlord character said the brother ended up at the same prison as their mother. and then my heart just sank, and it was agony to watch them figure it out. the final sequence starting from their mother’s moment at the pool when she’s finally reunited with her son, only to realise he was the man who abused her, to him standing at her grave alone, was gut wrenching but beautifully executed. thank you for posting your thoughts on the movie here, or i might never have known it existed

[opo]

When it was mentioned that the siblings had both a father AND a brother that they never knew, I figured out the twist.

[BloodSynthetic]

The point is it wasnt so much plot twist, he gives you all the infos to make you suspicious of the twist from the scene we see him in prison because his face is very similar to the kid in opening scene HE IS THAT KID , from that scene i started to figure out whats happening .
The film is masterpiece because Villeneuve dont care about the typical plot twist, he gives you all the informations from almost the middle of the film, the power of the film at the end is the two separate letters to the same person and how everyone reacts to the truth

[kwgpdqo]

Incendies is to drama what Hereditary is to horror. A masterpiece.

[Jerzius]

I still remember realising everything after she gasped for air. I was with a friend who got it at the same time and turned to me while whispering "i think im having a heart attack". After the movie was done, we stayed in our seats for 15 minutes just sitting there, next to eachother, shaking no with our heads. That film changed my perspective on what cinema can be forever!

[Lanya_]

I love Denis Villeneuve, but I never watched that movie and don't think I will.

I watched the play when I was younger and I still remember the shock and horror of this plot twist.
Everyone in the theatre gasped at the same time and you then felt a kind of deep silence setting in afterwards. I was just silently crying in my seat for the remainder of the play.

I'm sure Denis Villeneuve did an amazing job, because to put that story on screen and conveying these emotions surely wasn't easy.
But feeling this shock once was enough for me. It's been around 15 years and I still remember it as if it was yesterday.

[alme]

Vaguely reminds me of an old (2001) rap song by Immortal Technique-- "dance with the devil", but followed out to show the damage inflicted on all parties.

[LeonardoKlotz]

"We've been searching for our brother and our biological father. But what if I tell you, that one plus one, equals... one?"

[amandabeaty]

I saw it coming. I just knew. They wouldn't have featured the torcherer so prominently if he didn't play a major twist in the plot. What's worse is that they let him into Canada...