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X (2022)
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X is a 2022 slasher film written and directed by Ti West (The Innkeepers, In a Valley of Violence, The House of the Devil) and starring Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Scott Mescudi, Martin Henderson, and Brittany Snow. The film was scored by Tyler Bates and Chelsea Wolfe.In 1979, a group of actors and a small film crew embark on a road trip through Texas to shoot a pornographic film titled The Farmer's Daughters for the booming theatrical porn market. Everyone involved is excited at the prospect of the film being their big break, but especially aspiring actress Maxine Minx (Goth), who wants nothing more than to be famous.The group's trip leads them to the rural home of a reclusive, elderly couple, where they begin shooting the film without their knowledge. They then find that the elderly couple have begun to take a mysterious, lascivious interest in them, and as the day turns to night, their situation takes a dark turn that leaves them fighting for their lives.X was officially released on March 18, 2022, by A24, under a week after its SXSW premiere. At the festival, West revealed a prequel to the film titled Pearl was already in post-production, shot back-to-back with the film and centering around the elderly woman of the couple in her younger years. The film was released on September 16, 2022. Three days before that, West and A24 announced a full sequel titled MaXXXine, once again starring Mia Goth as Maxine seeking to make it as an actress in 1985 Hollywood. | |
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Psychosexual Horror | |
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Psychosexual Horror: The film centers around the production of a pornographic film, and has a theme of Existential Horror that's expressed through the fear of getting older, wasting years, and the frustration that arises over no longer being sexually active or feeling sexually desirable. The antagonists are intensely envious of the protagonists for being young and sexually desirable in a different, more progressive time, and getting opportunities that they themselves never had during their own youth. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Maxine kills Pearl — who by then has broken her hip and is completely defenseless — by running her head over. Given that Pearl is a "kidnapping, murdering sex fiend" who has killed at least six people, it's hard to argue she didn't deserve it. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: RJ is stabbed in the throat repeatedly by Pearl, a prolonged and extremely bloody process that continues even after we see his neck literally collapse. The alligator in the pond kills Bobby-Lynne by biting her head, dragging her underwater, and presumably devouring her and/or ripping her apart. As she thrashes, it's not-so-subtly implied that the gator is doing a death roll while her head is still in its jaws. | |
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All There in the Script | |
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All There in the Script: Sheriff Dentler and Officer Mitchell's names are only mentioned in the credits. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: A literal gun, but played with in that it hinders the protagonist. After pointing a shotgun in Wayne's face, Howard mentions that it isn't loaded, noting that waving it around is usually enough to get people to stand down. Wayne casually mentions that he does the same thing to the handgun in his glovebox. Howard is bluffing, as he uses the same shotgun to kill Jackson and Lorraine later in the film. Wayne isn't, as Maxine threatens Pearl with it, only to pull the trigger and find that it's empty. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: When Lorraine expresses reservations about filming the movie early on, her boyfriend RJ asks her, "When did you become such a prude?" Later, when Lorraine decides to film a scene in the movie to RJ’s vehement disapproval, she knowingly asks the question back to him. | |
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Unwanted Assistance | |
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Unwanted Assistance: The film crew is generally kind to the elders, and they often attempt to lend their assistance and show concern for them, but both Pearl and Howard are deeply embittered by their age and loss of abilities and opportunities from it, and see all of the crew's well-intentioned gestures at kindness as painful insults reminding them how frail and finished they appear. Both Jackson and Bobby-Lynne end up getting killed by one of the elders shortly after offering help and reassurance in a way that happened to remind the elders exactly how bygone they were being perceived as, and Pearl and Howard make their affront very clear before each murder. | |
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Shag Wagon | |
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Shag Wagon: The film crew's van is a more subtle example than most, denoted as such largely by the Double Entendre "Plowing Services" written on the side. | |
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Law of Inverse Recoil | |
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Law of Inverse Recoil: Subverted. Pearl is sent flying backwards after firing a shotgun. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Pearl breaks her hip due to the shotgun's recoil just as the televised sermon reaches the topic of "divine intervention". The coincidence is not lost on Maxine. | |
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Shower of Angst | |
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Shower of Angst: After reluctantly allowing Lorraine to take a role and have a sex scene with Jackson, RJ takes a shower late at night while everyone else is asleep and breaks down weeping. | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: Pearl misses having sex with Howard and still seems attracted to him, but seems most attracted to Maxine out of all the filmmakers, groping her in bed. Judging from what she says to Howard, their basement captives have been both men and women, too. | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: The death of RJ by way of Pearl stabbing him in the neck at least twenty times. RJ spurts so much blood, it actually stains the van’s headlights, fully turning them from white to red. | |
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Out with a Bang | |
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Out with a Bang: Doubly subverted. Howard and Pearl consummate after killing all but Maxine and Lorraine, despite Pearl’s hesitancy because of Howard’s bad heart. He says, "My heart can take it," and it does...for about 20 minutes, until he keels over after shooting Lorraine. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: After getting rescued by Maxine and told to be quiet to prevent the old couple hearing them, in the middle of a panic attack with her hand having been previously smashed in, Lorraine screams abuse at Maxine and blames everything on her and the others moments before she's shot dead by Howard. | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: When RJ starts up the van in his attempt to abandon the shoot, "Don't Fear the Reaper" starts playing on the radio. He soon encounters Pearl, who ends up becoming his reaper. When fighting with Pearl, Maxine says the same line as the preacher on TV. Around five minutes later, she's revealed to be his actual daughter. | |
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Shark Pool | |
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Shark Pool: An alligator lives in the lake on Howard and Pearl’s property. At first, it appears to almost eat Maxine, who goes skinny dipping there on her own free will. But later on, Pearl kicks Bobby-Lynne into the lake, and Bobby-Lynne gets eaten by the alligator. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Getting shot in the face, even with a shotgun, won’t necessarily kill you immediately, as poor Lorraine demonstrates. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: Acknowledged. When Pearl pulls the trigger on the shotgun, she misses Maxine completely despite the short distance. Immediately after this happens, the preacher on TV talks about a divine intervention. That said, this is justified since Pearl never demonstrated any particular expertise in using firearms and was completely unable to control the recoil. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Lorraine rewards Maxine for rescuing her by screaming abuse at her, alerting Howard and Pearl to their presence. However, she is extremely traumatized and in the middle of a panic attack, being scared out of her mind when it happens and unaware of what has been going on outside after being trapped the entire time in the basement with a mutilated corpse. This is implied to be the reason for her sudden personality shift. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: A trailer for the upcoming prequel Pearl airs after the credits. | |
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Not the First Victim | |
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Not the First Victim: We've already seen Pearl kill RJ before Howard persuades Lorraine to go down in the basement and finds an earlier victim strung up in there. It's then confirmed that he wasn't their first, either. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: RJ tells Bobby-Lynne that he doesn't have to film the porno in chronological order because he can just rearrange the story during editing. The movie itself does not play in chronological order, as it begins with the police discovering the aftermath of the film's events. RJ saying "It is possible to make a good dirty movie" is only two degrees removed from director Ti West saying "It is possible to have elevated horror in a slasher film." At one point, Wayne says, "Time to give the people what they want to see!" We then Smash Cut to a topless Bobby-Lynne on the bed, played by an attractive Brittany Snow. An example that doubles as foreshadowing; when Lorraine expresses interest in playing a role in the porno, RJ protests on the grounds that they can't just change the story halfway through, only for her to counter that one of his favorite films, Psycho, also has a Halfway Plot Switch. It's shortly after this scene that the film changes gears and turns into a full-blown Slasher Movie. The very last line of the movie. When police that arrive at the farmhouse discover RJ's camera, one officer wonders what could be on it. Another suggests, from the grisliness of the crime scene they're in, that the camera contains "one goddamn fucked-up horror picture." | |
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Male Frontal Nudity | |
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Male Frontal Nudity: We get shades of this from Jackson. RJ seems to focus his camera on Jackson's face during the sex scenes, so we get very little, but brief flashes of it do occur. Most notably, when Howard shows up at the farmhouse, Jackson answers the door fully nude, and a silhouette of his (almost comically long) penis can be seen. We also get a quick panning shot of the nude male victim Pearl has strung up in her basement, complete with a rather sizable penis on display. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The film opens on police at the farmhouse as a flash-forward, and ends with the same scene once it has become the chronological present. | |
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Bat Deduction | |
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Bat Deduction: Hilariously subverted when the police investigate the crime scene and one of them asks the sheriff what he thinks happened, possibly setting up a classic instance of this trope where the cop deduces the exact events that unfolded. Due to the weirdness of the scene, however, the sheriff simply asks, “How the hell should I know?� | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile: An alligator is introduced early on in a lake near the farm; while it near-misses Maxine, it attacks and devours Bobby-Lynne. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Sex, namely through the foiling dynamic of free love and Christian sexual repression. Youth, old age, aging, and loss of youth, as noted by several lines. | |
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Dissonant Serenity | |
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Dissonant Serenity: When Pearl first stabs RJ in the throat, her expression remains absolutely unchanging as she watches him collapse and choke on his own blood. | |
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'70s Hair | |
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'70s Hair: Jackson’s afro definitely qualifies, as well as Bobby-Lynne's bob and Maxine's feathered waves. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: For Maxine: "I will not accept a life I do not deserve." It gets repeated by the televangelist on Pearl's TV when Maxine says it the second time, shortly before it's revealed he's her father. | |
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The Immodest Orgasm | |
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The Immodest Orgasm: Seemingly had by Bobby-Lynne in her sex scene with Jackson; Jackson assumes that he's given her one of these for real, but she demonstrates that it's acting. Pearl has a real one when she and Howard are having sex. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: While Lorraine's cries for help get Maxine's attention, she continues to cry out in a panic after she manages to get her own, even yelling at her directly as she runs out, getting her face blown off by Howard when she runs out the door after he heard her. | |
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STD Immunity | |
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STD Immunity: Subverted. The subject finally comes up when RJ is extremely hesitant to have Lorraine appear in a sex scene and is concerned about her getting them. Wayne also isn’t afraid of getting STDs, but is afraid of getting tetanus when a nail goes through his foot. | |
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The Savage South | |
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The Savage South: The film is set in rural Texas, which is portrayed as an extremely backward and dangerous region inhabited by xenophobic, violent country folk and man-eating alligators. | |
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Shave and a Haircut | |
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Shave And A Haircut: When Wayne first approaches Howard's house on the farm, he knocks the door in this rhythm. | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
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Developing Doomed Characters: An intentional example as part of the film's Deconstruction of slashers. Ti West and Mia Goth have stated that X was meant to show stereotypical slasher archetypes as complex and sympathetic people rather than disposable assholes, so their deaths would actually be meaningful. | |
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How We Got Here | |
| X (2022) / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: The film opens with police at the farmhouse the morning after the events of the film, with the scene covered in blood and bodies, and jumps back to 24 hours prior, when the cast and crew embark on their fateful journey. | |
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Deconstruction | |
| X (2022) / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: It may be a slasher through and through, but this film offers a lot of social commentary and subtext on the dueling forces of free love and Christian chastity. In many ways, the excesses of free love are portrayed as the logical conclusion of a deeply flawed Christian moral system imploding. On one hand, free love is depicted in a very unflattering light. The porn shoot can, not withstanding the girls' youthful good looks, at times veer into Fan Disservice instead of Fanservice for some viewers, especially with Wayne's sleazy attitude scrubbing any higher ideals out of the film in favor of pure smut. The lack of commitment that sexual freedom encourages can also lead to emptiness and terribly hurt feelings over betrayals, with RJ's reaction to Lorraine taking part in the film portrayed as Et Tu, Brute? at its finest. Finally, its fixation on a youthful ideal of beauty fuels a lot of Howard and Pearl's resentment of the porn crew. On the other hand, Christian chastity is portrayed as encouraging hypocrisy, repressive environments, and suppressed desires that can build up into bitter resentments later in life, as evidenced by Lorraine's revolt against her Christian upbringing and the fact that Maxine was a Preacher's Kid with no regrets about going into porn. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
| X (2022) / int_8b606a51 | comment |
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Pearl's first stab to the throat on RJ would likely have been enough to end his life. But she just keeps stabbing him over and over and over again after he slumps to the ground, and even after he's clearly dead. | |
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Recoiled Across the Room | |
| X (2022) / int_8d5fc8c7 | comment |
Recoiled Across the Room: Pearl can't handle the recoil of the shotgun, flying back several feet and breaking her hip when she lands. | |
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Bunker Woman | |
| X (2022) / int_90c30080 | comment |
Bunker Woman: Pearl and Howard have been keeping a man in the basement, presumably as a Sex Slave. Howard plans to do the same to Lorraine, though Pearl would prefer Maxine. | |
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| X (2022) / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| X (2022) / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: Howard has a fatal heart attack when he's startled by a dying Lorraine suddenly coughing up blood. Later, Pearl’s attempt to shoot Maxine with the shotgun results in her dislocating a hip and leaving her helpless on the ground, allowing Maxine to crush her head with the truck. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
| X (2022) / int_984ef9ef | comment |
"Not So Different" Remark: When RJ and Wayne have a private talk after RJ voices his disapproval of Lorraine having a scene in their film, RJ maintains that she is a nice girl at heart unlike Bobby-Lynne and Maxine. Wayne responds by telling RJ that none of the three are "nice girls". Pearl tries to tell Maxine that she's "just like [her]" and that Maxine will end up like her. Maxine replies that she "will not accept a life she doesn't deserve." | |
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Screw Yourself | |
| X (2022) / int_9a0870ae | comment |
Screw Yourself: The Meta Casting subtext of Pearl being most attracted to Maxine, when both are played by the same actress (with Mia Goth not using makeup or prosthetics to play young Pearl.) | |
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1.0 | |
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| X (2022) / int_9a6990 | type |
Skinny Dipping | |
| X (2022) / int_9a6990 | comment |
Skinny Dipping: Maxine does this in the lake, narrowly avoiding getting attacked by an alligator looming behind her. | |
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1.0 | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| X (2022) / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
An example that doubles as foreshadowing; when Lorraine expresses interest in playing a role in the porno, RJ protests on the grounds that they can't just change the story halfway through, only for her to counter that one of his favorite films, Psycho, also has a Halfway Plot Switch. It's shortly after this scene that the film changes gears and turns into a full-blown Slasher Movie. | |
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One-Letter Title | |
| X (2022) / int_9e31f0b1 | comment |
One-Letter Title: The title is just the letter "X". | |
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1.0 | |
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| X (2022) / int_9e447c8c | type |
Suspiciously Apropos Music | |
| X (2022) / int_9e447c8c | comment |
Suspiciously Apropos Music: As R.J. starts up the truck in his planned escape, the radio is playing "Don't Fear the Reaper", which ends up being the soundtrack to him being murdered by Pearl. | |
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| X (2022) / int_a1a1491e | type |
Homage | |
| X (2022) / int_a1a1491e | comment |
Homage: To The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Both are 1970s-set slasher films set over a beautiful summer's day and a night about a group of young people in rural Texas who venture into a rural farmhouse only to learn that the people inside are vicious. It gets a specific Shout-Out in the scene of Bobby-Lynne walking slowly towards the house from the swing. The appearance of a man-eating crocodile also recalls Chain Saw director Tobe Hooper's following film, Eaten Alive! (1976). To Psycho: Jackson stumbles across a partially submerged car in the swamp, framed to look like the closing shot of that movie. Lorraine gives the film a Shout-Out as one of RJ's favorites. More subtly, in the same scene, the group eat sandwiches on white Wonder Bread, just before the killing begins; in Psycho, Marion and Norman similarly share white Wonder Bread sandwiches before the first murder occurs. Wayne peering through the holes in the wall of the barn also closely resembles Norman peering through the peephole. Like Lila, Lorraine finds a dead body in the basement. The style of scene transition that cross-cuts back and forth between the current scene and the next scene is lifted from Easy Rider. Lorraine takes an axe to a door with the camera following her swings, Ã la Jack Torrance in The Shining. But in a unique inversion of the usual reference, instead of trying to break in somewhere, here Lorraine is breaking down the door to get out. Maxine lightly treading water while skinny-dipping in the lake is a dead ringer for Chrissie doing the same thing out at sea during her famous death scene in Jaws. The overhead view of the alligator swimming towards Maxine also invokes the famous poster of the Great White Shark swimming upwards and underneath the swimming woman. | |
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| X (2022) / int_a20386a2 | type |
Serious Work, Comedic Scene | |
| X (2022) / int_a20386a2 | comment |
Serious Work, Comedic Scene: This is a mostly serious horror movie with several moments of dark comedy, such as Pearl firing a shotgun and getting blasted out the open door behind her by the recoil. | |
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| X (2022) / int_a2b38d3b | type |
Eye Scream | |
| X (2022) / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Wayne tells RJ at one point that when audiences see the porno they’re making, �people’s eyes are going to pop out of their damn skulls". He later experiences that very thing himself via Pearl’s pitchfork. | |
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| X (2022) / int_a4905771 | type |
Double-Meaning Title | |
| X (2022) / int_a4905771 | comment |
Double-Meaning Title: For just one letter, the X has many facets as applies to the film. X connotes the adults-only X rating of the early days of the MPAA (with X-rating being characterized as explicit films that can still be called cinema, like RJ wants to make), or perhaps one X out of three in the XXX symbol used for outright porn (which Wayne pushes the project to be). X being the middle of the trilogy, and pornography being a presence throughout the trilogy, might strengthen this latter interpretation. Wayne keeps telling Maxine she has "the X factor" when she asks if he thinks she can be a big star, so the title can allude to the pursuit of fame, another overarching theme. The "X" letter also can be used as a symbol of a junction or crossroads. Fitting, as X is the chronological center of a film trilogy, and is the point where parallel characters Maxine and Pearl meet and affect each other's stories. The other two films being called Pearl and MaXXXine reinforces the title X as a junction and pairing between the two characters. | |
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Instant Death Bullet | |
| X (2022) / int_a754fa9a | comment |
Instant Death Bullet: Subverted. Lorraine survives a few minutes after getting shot in the face with a shotgun. This actually becomes a plot point, as her death rattle startles Howard enough for him to suffer a fatal heart attack. | |
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-0.3 | |
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| X (2022) / int_ab3c178e | type |
Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer | |
| X (2022) / int_ab3c178e | comment |
Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer: In the opening scene, one police officer at the farmhouse says to another, "You ought to come take a look at this," and leads him into the basement to find what is later revealed to be the naked chained-up corpse. | |
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Preacher's Kid | |
| X (2022) / int_ab48ea8 | comment |
On the other hand, Christian chastity is portrayed as encouraging hypocrisy, repressive environments, and suppressed desires that can build up into bitter resentments later in life, as evidenced by Lorraine's revolt against her Christian upbringing and the fact that Maxine was a Preacher's Kid with no regrets about going into porn. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
| X (2022) / int_ab5eea65 | comment |
Dramatic Irony: The film uses this trope heavily: We see the alligator swimming toward Maxine while she swims slowly toward the dock, unaware. We see the nail sticking up on the floor as Wayne walks toward it, unaware. The whole second act is basically a series of scenes in which the audience is waiting for the main characters to discover that the old couple is killing people. Wayne tells Howard that he's eyeing up Maxine because "he's never seen anything like her before". Howard's wife Pearl is elderly, but both are played by Mia Goth. | |
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| X (2022) / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| X (2022) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Jackson, a young black man living in 1979, is lured into the swamp by an old white man with a shotgun who angrily confronts him and accuses him of seducing his wife, and yet he's taken completely by surprise when the old man promptly shoots him. You'd expect that every single aspect of this scenario would put him on edge. | |
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| X (2022) / int_b7d773ab | type |
Smash Cut | |
| X (2022) / int_b7d773ab | comment |
At one point, Wayne says, "Time to give the people what they want to see!" We then Smash Cut to a topless Bobby-Lynne on the bed, played by an attractive Brittany Snow. | |
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| X (2022) / int_bc00493f | type |
Precision F-Strike | |
| X (2022) / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Pearl never swears until she pushes Bobby-Lynne into the lake, who to that point has gone on a tirade about how people in Pearl’s generation are bitter because they didn't experience sexual liberation in their youth. She almost ends the tirade by calling her a bitch, but is cut short, and Pearl uses the word instead to refer to Bobby-Lynne. | |
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1.0 | |
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| X (2022) / int_c02f148d | type |
Both Sides Have a Point | |
| X (2022) / int_c02f148d | comment |
Both Sides Have a Point: All of the conflict in the film is portrayed with nuance that lends credit to either side and allows each to be considered correct in different ways. In regards to the idealism and ambition that the film crew pursue, the film tends to agree with their intent to live life to the fullest and reach for opportunities so they won't live a life of regrets when they're unable to do so. Bobby-Lynne even points out to Pearl that it's not fair to resent young people just because your own life didn't turn out the way you wanted. However, the film also portrays the dreams of fame as a little naive and self-deluded, and even though she's overly bitter and cynical, Pearl (who stands as an example of a failure to meet this dream) isn't framed as incorrect for expressing that life doesn't always give you what you want, and you might still end your life unfulfilled no matter how much you want to avoid it. Maxine not listening to Pearl by the end is thus framed as unclear—is she correct to shut out the bitterness and cruelty, or is she foolishly choosing to ignore an important perspective and warning that could improve her life trajectory? With the film crew showing concern for the elders' safety and well-being, the movie frames the crew as genuinely well-intentioned and kind in their efforts to reach out and offer help, thus making their rejection sad and horrifying, but it's also made clear that the elders feel very insulted by the way they're being treated, and that the crew is often painfully reminding them of how they're being perceived as at the end of the line, explaining their anger and lashing out with acts of murder. When the film crew discuss their attitude to open sexuality after a shoot, Lorraine decides she wants to be in a scene, devastating RJ, who felt his girlfriend was a different kind of person. Lorraine is entitled to have her own sexual desires and is supported by the film crew, and RJ's objections that Lorraine is a "nice girl" frame him as close-minded and controlling of his girlfriend, if not outright sexist. At the same time, his relationship dynamic has been rapidly overhauled and he's forced to film his girlfriend having sex with another man before he can even process her choice to be in the film, and so the film validates his distress, and shows the damage open sexuality can do without healthy mutual consent. | |
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| X (2022) / int_c04b1231 | type |
Jump Scare | |
| X (2022) / int_c04b1231 | comment |
Jump Scare: A considerable amount of them abound once the horror starts to pick up. | |
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| X (2022) / int_c180f1cb | type |
Advertising by Association | |
| X (2022) / int_c180f1cb | comment |
Advertising by Association: The trailer promotes A24 as "the studio that brought you Hereditary". | |
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1.0 | |
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| X (2022) / int_c2d978fe | type |
Car Fu | |
| X (2022) / int_c2d978fe | comment |
Car Fu: Maxine backs the truck over Pearl's head in her final act before driving off to freedom at the end of the film. | |
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1.0 | |
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| X (2022) / int_c335b9ec | type |
Irony | |
| X (2022) / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Wayne tells RJ at one point that when audiences see the porno they’re making, �people’s eyes are going to pop out of their damn skulls". He later experiences that very thing himself via Pearl’s pitchfork. Maxine proclaims that “the world is going to know [her] name.� At the very end, the preacher on TV reveals a photo of her and announces that she is his daughter, seduced by a life of depravity. And by virtue of being the sole survivor of a massacre by two serial killers, the world might very well know her name eventually. RJ says, somewhat ruefully, “Let’s see them get out of here without me� as he’s stealing the truck to abandon the group at the farm in the middle of the night. Indeed, once RJ is “gone� courtesy of Pearl’s knife, the majority of the group fails to leave the farm, due to being killed rather than lacking transport. | |
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| X (2022) / int_c660bc15 | type |
Fan Disservice | |
| X (2022) / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: Lampshaded and used repeatedly through the film, highlighting the dissonance (as such, the double standard regarding youthfulness in the movie industry) between the titillating body shots of the young actors, and the scenes showing the unflattering, old bodies of Pearl and Howard. Pearl attempts to strip for people at multiple points in the film, and fully disrobes to get in bed with and molest Maxine, and that's not to discount the sex scene between her and Howard, which puts liberal focus on Howard's backside. | |
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| X (2022) / int_c6f45871 | type |
Fake Orgasm | |
| X (2022) / int_c6f45871 | comment |
Seemingly had by Bobby-Lynne in her sex scene with Jackson; Jackson assumes that he's given her one of these for real, but she demonstrates that it's acting. | |
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| X (2022) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| X (2022) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Lorraine gives the film a Shout-Out as one of RJ's favorites. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| X (2022) / int_c8ba12ee | type |
Interplay of Sex and Violence | |
| X (2022) / int_c8ba12ee | comment |
Interplay of Sex and Violence: As can be expected with a film where the killers are a sexually frustrated old couple who lets a film crew into their farmhouse without knowing they are actually filming porn, there is plenty of this. While stabbing RJ to death, Pearl crawls on top of him and appears to have an orgasm. Pearl and Howard have vigorous sex for what is implied to be the first time in many years midway through their murder spree. | |
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1.0 | |
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| X (2022) / int_cd54798d | type |
"Here's Johnny!" Homage | |
| X (2022) / int_cd54798d | comment |
"Here's Johnny!" Homage: Played with. Lorraine sticks her face out of the crack in the door that she made with the axe when she's trapped in the basement. However, she's not the killer and she's in terrible danger. | |
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| X (2022) / int_cf6ce348 | type |
Porn Names | |
| X (2022) / int_cf6ce348 | comment |
Porn Names: Bobby-Lynne and Jackson Hole, the former being a reference to the "last name + Lynn" naming formula for female porn stars and the latter a pun on a real-life Wyoming resort (and, of course, the sexual meaning of "hole"). Maxine Minx is also a reference to the alliterative names that frequent the adult film industry. However, Maxine's first name really is Maxine since her preacher father calls her by that name. | |
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| X (2022) / int_dcbe8a6e | type |
Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Or rather Chekhov's gun-animal. When Maxine goes skinny dipping early in the film, we see an alligator enter from the right side of the frame and start moving towards her as she swims to the dock obliviously. She eventually pulls herself up out of harm's way just in time. The alligator is then shown lurking nearby when Jackson looks for Pearl in the woods at night, but it's actually put to use when it ambushes and devours Bobby-Lynne moments after Pearl pushes her into the lake. | |
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Within Arm's Reach | |
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Within Arm's Reach: Happens, but it doesn't work the way anyone was expecting. When Maxine fails to shoot Pearl, Pearl picks up a gun that's conveniently by her foot. Pearl then shoots at Maxine, but gets blown away by the force of the shotgun's blowback and breaks her hip, disabling her. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: While they almost certainly would've been killed anyway, the majority of the victims are disarmed by Howard and/or Pearl and are trying to help them: Bobby-Lynne runs to Pearl and wraps her in a blanket, trying to guide her inside before being pushed into the lake and eaten by a crocodile. However, she gives up immediately beforehand when Pearl slaps her and calls her a whore. Lorraine is tricked into going down in the cellar by Howard asking her to go get a flashlight for the risk that Pearl has fallen down the stairs, and locks her in, presumably with a plan to rape, torture, and kill her. Jackson volunteers to search for Pearl so that Howard won't have to do it, and then gets shot by Howard for his trouble. Even RJ took the time to gently try to comfort what appeared to be a confused old lady and help her back into her home despite being in the midst of an attempt to abandon his girlfriend and the group out of spite by stealing their van, doing very little to restrain or chastise Pearl despite his obvious discomfort with her advances, which he would pay for with his life. | |
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Evil Old Folks | |
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Evil Old Folks: Deviant serial killers Pearl and Howard. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: Played with. Sheriff Dentler and Officer Mitchell are the first characters to appear on screen, but from a chronological standpoint, the sheriff and his partner first show up when Wayne drives into traffic. | |
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TheSeventies | |
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The '70s: The film takes place in 1979. | |
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Fed to the Beast | |
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Fed to the Beast: Bobby-Lynne’s kill, where Pearl kicks her in the lake knowing an alligator is below. | |
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Non-Malicious Monster | |
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Non-Malicious Monster: The alligator (unlike the old couple) has no actual evil or malicious intentions; it is simply a very dangerous carnivorous animal. | |
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Not So Similar | |
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Pearl tries to tell Maxine that she's "just like [her]" and that Maxine will end up like her. Maxine replies that she "will not accept a life she doesn't deserve." | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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