BLOG ENTRY #07

It Follows

The movie “It Follows” by David Robert Mitchell, is all about the teenagers who have sex named Jay (Maika Monroe) who sleep with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), she learns that after she got sex with her boyfriend she will be the latest recipient of the fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay’s friends don’t believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and the band together to help her flee or defend herself.

Since “It Follows” concerns the never-ending state of hormonal crisis we call “adolescence”, the film is about illogical actions that have long-lasting consequences. Jay ( Maika Monroe), quintessentially sullen teens, learns this soon after she has sex with, and is summarily kidnapped/abducted by Hugh ( Jake Weary). After he chloroforms and ties up Jay, Hugh deliberately, but impatiently tells her everything he knows: Jay is the latest victim of a sexually transmitted haunting. She must this burden onto another person by having more sex. If she doesn’t, she will be determine to follow and try to catch up by someone she knows or maybe it will be a stranger possibly living or dead.

Whoever follows Jay it varies from encounter to encounter that “thing or a monster” cannot be seen by anyone else but can definitely hurt her. Does that mean sex is bad, or that sex simply isn’t a cure all for juvenile awkwardness but based on the movie sex is the only solution to escape that burden, she needs to have a lot of sexual intercourse with others to transmit that curse? The last person she had sexual intercourse with would be the current recipient of the fatal curse and when that “thing or a monster” catch/capture the person who receive the cure and kill them the curse will return to the person who first have the curse.

The monster that follows

The director make the movie is to aware the teens on the current issue about having pre-marital sex they said that life after sex is a purgatory and your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person. They didn’t think or understand of use of sex to fill the emotional void and how the characters on the movie were doing it for different reasons. The monster on the movie is so ambiguous that is not expressed or clearly understand where did it came from it just pop up or exist on the scene. They compare the curse into a disease call STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) by passing or transmit this curse to the other person you need to have a sexual intercourse with others just to pass the curse to escape the burden and the monster. They also said the constant walking and potential to show the monster at any time is symbolize the fear of oncoming and sudden death, the rush to have sex is the peer pressure/adolescent sexual confusion to save their life from the monster who want to kill her.

The monster on the movie represents in many ways, something that is terrifying of moving from adolescence from adulthood, becoming aware of pre-marital sex which is the primary issue/crisis of time, the discovery of sexuality and the very primal nature of this issue.

The night Paul and Jay slept together

The movies theme is an amalgamation of various issues associated with teenager’s perpetual need to have sex because of pressure from the monster but the issue is it is not the solution to escape the curse that you need to have more sex just to live long. It is hard to understand the logical thing about this movie and where the monster came from and why the monster do that. The monster will kill the current recipient after he killed he will make se with that dead person. The movie for them is so boring because they all can see from the movie is just having more sex of the character to others, the resolution and brightness is vague but some aspects of the movie is unique from others.

The movie's ending scene