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Hold the Dark

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Hold the Dark	comment	Hold the Dark is a 2018 thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier, written by his frequent collaborator Macon Blair (I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore) and based on the book of the same name by William Giraldi.In rural Alaska, Medora Slone (Riley Keough) writes a letter to the retired naturalist and novelist Russell Core (Jeffrey Wright) to come hunt down the wolf that carried away her young son so that she can have something to show her husband Vernon (Alexander Skarsgård) when he returns from war. Russell answers her call, but quickly discovers that something much darker is going on.The film premiered on Netflix on September 28, 2018.
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Hold the Dark / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Hold the Dark / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The film was marketed as a kind of slasher movie, which it is not.
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Hold the Dark / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Hold the Dark / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: None of our heroes make any impact on the story except to get more people killed. Medora has already killed her son, while Vernon kills his way to her and they both disappear with their dead son's coffin into the wilderness.
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Hold the Dark / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Hold the Dark / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Russell watches a pack of adult wolves eating one of their own cubs. He explains that wolves sometimes do this to make the pack better prepared to endure hardship. This is carried over into Medora, who killed her son. It's implied she did this to spare him from the darkness of the world.
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Hold the Dark / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Hold the Dark / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Implied. Something has estranged Russell from his daughter, and they haven't spoken since she moved to Alaska. Given that he is a naturalist who wrote about hunting a wolf, he was likely not around much for his daughter's upbringing. They are not so estranged that her daughter doesn't visit him in the hospital and show concern.
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Hold the Dark / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Hold the Dark / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Cheeon opens fire on a large group of police officers with a machine gun, killing over a dozen.
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Hold the Dark / int_347e35d6	type	Grim Up North
Hold the Dark / int_347e35d6	comment	Grim Up North: The film takes place in rural Alaska, where life is hard and grim. Medora tells Russell that the city of Anchorage isn't the "real Alaska."
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Hold the Dark / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Hold the Dark / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: A hair's breadth from a Downer Ending, as Vernon and Medora vanish into the wilderness, escaping justice, and the town will likely become deserted by the following winter, but Core is rescued and his daughter visits him in the hospital.
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Hold the Dark / int_47343a59	type	Swiper, No Swiping!
Hold the Dark / int_47343a59	comment	Swiper, No Swiping!: When Cheeon is gunning down all the cops in his sight, Russell runs out and starts dragging a wounded cop away, right in front of Cheeon. When Cheeon points his gun at them, Russell shouts, "Just stop it!" Cheeon returns to firing on the other cops and allows Russell to continue dragging the wounded cop away.
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Hold the Dark / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
Hold the Dark / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Vernon and Medora are both murderous and seem to be locked in a shared psychosis.
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Hold the Dark / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Hold the Dark / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: We see Cheeon open the barn doors to reveal his machine gun in the background a few moments before anyone can react.
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Hold the Dark / int_603b77ec	type	Savage Wolves
Hold the Dark / int_603b77ec	comment	Savage Wolves: Medora says that wolves carried off her son. Russell watches wolves eat their own young. An old native woman talks about winter attacks from wolves being common when growing up. Medora killed her own son, and she and Vernon wear wolf masks when doing dark and strange things. However, no wolves are actually seen to attack any humans throughout the film, even when they have opportunity, and Russell sympathizes with them. Ultimately wolves are just a symbol for the darkness in the human soul.
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Hold the Dark / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Hold the Dark / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The film takes place in and around the town of Keelut, which is an evil spirit in local Native American folklore that resembles a hairless dog.
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Hold the Dark / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Hold the Dark / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: It's implied that Vernon and Medora are siblings. They are said to have the same Nordic features, and Medora says that she's known Vernon so long that she has no memories without him in them. Medora may have killed their son to spare him from the reality of his origins.
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Hold the Dark / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Hold the Dark / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Medora's letter refers to Russell as the man who wrote a book about killing a wolf, but we see his study is filled with his paintings of wolves, showing that Russell isn't a simple hunter. Vernon is introduced mercilessly gunning down a jeep full of insurgents, then casually setting his cigarette down to stab a fellow soldier who is raping a local Iraqi woman, then handing her the knife to finish the job while he fetches his cigarette. This is a dangerous man who is not without his own sense of morality.
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Hold the Dark / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Hold the Dark / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Both Vernon and Medora get away with their crimes, vanishing after killing nearly all the police in town.
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Hold the Dark / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Hold the Dark / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The police have a remarkably difficult time hitting Cheeon, even though he's a stationary target without much cover. Shots behind his back show dozens of bullet holes covering the walls and ceiling all around him.
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Hold the Dark / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Hold the Dark / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Vernon lands an arrow shot to the neck of Chief Marium from several hundred feet on his first pull.
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Hold the Dark / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Hold the Dark / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: The police chief talks about taking his wife on a tropical vacation after this is all over. He's killed two scenes later.
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Hold the Dark / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Hold the Dark / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Subverted. Vernon returns home and goes on a path to find his wife, but he has his own twisted motives. He kills anyone who says they're trying to find her as well as anyone who helped her or who gets in his way. When he does find her, they have creepy sex and run off together, having reunited with a singular purpose.
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Hold the Dark / int_db88b941	type	Malevolent Masked Men
Hold the Dark / int_db88b941	comment	Malevolent Masked Men: Both of the Slones wear wolf masks when doing dark and strange things.
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Hold the Dark / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Hold the Dark / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: The shootout between the police and Cheeon is shockingly violent, with one officer getting half his face blown off from behind.
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Hold the Dark	hasFeature	Unholy Matrimony / int_1c01360e

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