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‘Infinity Pool’ Ending Explained: Vacation’s Over
28.01.2023 - 06:09 / thewrap.com
Major spoilers for “Infinity Pool” follow; if you haven’t seen the movie do not read further.One night James and Em decide to take a trip outside the confines of the cushy resort. Guests are warned not to leave the hotel grounds as the country is dangerous and unpredictable.
But they bribe a guard to let them borrow his car and they head out with Goth and her partner Alban (played by French actor and filmmaker Jalil Lespert). They spend a day on the beach drinking and talking about life and their respective careers (James is a failed novelist but Gabi claims to have read his lone novel).
On the way back from the beach, James is driving and runs over a local man, killing him.That’s when the gang is introduced to the laws that govern Li Tolqa – primarily that, if you kill someone (even accidentally), the victim’s family can kill you. (“Eye for an eye” and all that.) But there’s a loophole for politicians and rich dingbats.
For a set fee, scientists in Li Tolqa can create an exact generic double right there in the police station. Then the family member can still exact their revenge and you, as the monied jerk, can watch as your expensive doppelganger gets murdered.
(In Skarsgård’s case, a young boy stabs him repeatedly in the stomach.)This, as they say, is the opening salvo of James’ descent into depravity and unchecked animalism.Well, Em leaves almost immediately after James claims that he can’t find his passport. (He has clearly been changed, on a molecular level, by his experience with the clone.) That leaves James to fall in with Gabi, Alban and a band of “zombies” (those who have been sentenced to death and then doubled) even more, joining them on a home invasion, taking a psychedelic drug native to the island and
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‘Infinity Pool’: Mia Goth & Brandon Cronenberg Talk About Their “Unhinged” New Film, The Material Magic Of Practical Effects & More [Interview]
Not yet thirty years old, Mia Goth has already collaborated with several world-renowned filmmakers for her willingness to follow their most demented muses. Her girlish appearance strikes a shocking contrast with the atrocity exhibitions that she gravitates toward: eagerly taking to sexual grooming in Lars Von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac;” undergoing forcible insemination and grisly spaghettification with Claire Denis in “High Life;” becoming an insane asylum’s incestuous princess for Gore Verbinski in “A Cure for Wellness;” witnessing her own disembowelment as part of the orgiastic blood ritual Luca Guadagnino that’s the grand finale to “Suspiria;” manifesting a century of madness for Ti West’s in-progress trio of period pieces of “X,” “Pearl,” and the upcoming “Maxxxine.” And so it’s no surprise that Goth’s latest outing is another twisted affair: Brandon Cronenberg‘s “Infinity Pool,” which takes place at a Mediterranean beach resort that hides a violent and depraved sub-culture.
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