What happens to Iris and Richard

Don’t move is Netflix’s latest horror film, and its the dramatic ending offers literal and thematic material to break down. Don’t move The cast is led by Kelsey Asbille (yellow stone) and Finn Wittrock (American horror story), who play Iris and Richard. The film is directed by Brian Netto and Adam Schindler and produced by horror genre legend Sam Raimi. Its events begin when Iris, a woman thinking about killing herself, is dissuaded by Richard, a man who shares her own past trauma. After she decides not to take her life, Richard kidnaps her and drugs her.

As far as horror’s greatest villains go, Richard isn’t the most competent, struggling to contain Iris. He uses a drug that causes her to lose her motor functions, so Iris spends a significant portion of the film unable to move her body. Despite everything, she almost escapes on several occasions with the help of others. When Richard finally takes Iris on a boat to execute her, she tricks him and kills him with a knife and a gun. He reaches the shore and Iris tells him “thanks“before letting him die.

Why Iris thanks Richard at the end of Don’t Move

Iris regained her will to survive and live

Thanking the man who was kidnapped and tried to kill him as he bleeds from gun and knife wounds is undoubtedly a power move, but there is a deeper reasoning in Iris’s final words to Richard. Regardless of everything that happened after the fact, Richard is still the man who saved her life when she was contemplating suicide. Not only did Richard stop her from taking her life, but after everything that happened, Iris thanks him because he reminded her of her reasons for living.

Facing death on top of the mountain, Iris is willing to give up her life. However, when she is kidnapped by Richard and left literally paralyzed, she no longer controls her own destiny. In this situation, Iris’s survival instincts kick in and she unleashes a new, cruel side of herself to escape Richard’s captivity.allowing her to realize how much she wants to live. By understanding this subconscious survival mechanism, her hope for the future is restored, and she thanks Richard for putting her in such a situation. His words also reflect Richard’s last words to Chloe.

What Really Happened to Richard After His Car Accident

Richard kills women as a way to play God

Richard initially identifies with Iris talking about a tragic car accident that happened years before the events of the film. He describes the event in multiple and strange ways, examining how that fateful accident changed the course of his life. Iris insults him saying that the accident made him go crazy, to which Richard counters by saying that he hasn’t gone crazy; he found clarity. He thanked Chloe as he watched her die, as if, in some twisted way, seeing her dead released a genuine part of himself that he hadn’t known before.

After Chloe’s death, Richard continued his life as a sociopathic killer. The phone call scene shows that he has a wife and daughter, but regularly leaves them for retreats at his cabin in the woods, where he kills women. Richard’s hope seems to be to recreate the feeling he had when he saw Chloe die, which he believes has profound spiritual value. It’s all a very twisted reaction to the shock of Chloe’s death, which rewired his brain or brought out a part of him that had always been buried inside him.

As Iris escapes from the burning house, don’t move

Iris chooses a chance to live with Richard rather than die in the fire

About halfway Don’t moveIris ends up in the backyard of a man named William, who finds a way to communicate with her through his blinking eyes and agrees to help her. When Richard arrives, William hides Iris under the sofa. Richard claims to be a man in danger, looking for his wife, but doesn’t realize that the woman he’s really looking for is hiding beneath him. After his cover is blown, he fights and kills Richard, setting the house on fire before leaving.

This would have been the end for Iris, as although the police were on their way, they probably would not have reached or found her in time to save her from the fire. Happily, she is lying next to the window blinds and has enough motor control to use them to signal Richard to her presence. As he is about to leave, Richard notices her and returns home to get her. Iris decides to take her chances with Richard rather than embrace imminent death in the fire, once again stating that her will to live has returned.

Who called the police on Richard?

The boy at the gas station noticed that Iris was in trouble

A police officer finds Richard and Iris outside their cabin, claiming he was called to trace Richard’s license plate number. At the gas station, Iris makes prolonged eye contact with a young child who seems to understand that something is wrongeven if he doesn’t know what. The boy is with his mother, so it’s more likely that he alerted her and she called the police.

What is Richard’s real name?

Who knows if he is who he claims to be

Finn Wittrock plays an incredible villain in Don’t movebut it is unclear whether Richard is actually the character’s name. At another point in the film, he introduces himself as Andrew. At another point, Iris directly mentions that she doesn’t know his real nameraising some questions about its meaning. For all the public knows, Richard could be his real name, but the obscurity of this matter will likely demonstrate that there is truth and lies in everything he says.

The true meaning of the ending of don’t move explained

Don’t Move is about Iris being freed to live again

As mentioned, the main idea of Don’t move is that Iris finds her will to live after coming to the brink of death. She is a mother who recently lost her son, Matteo, and lost the will to continue. But then she meets Richard, a man who kills women to embrace the feeling of playing god. There are important echoes in their stories that allow Iris and Richard to bond, which makes Don’t move So captivating cat and mouse game.

Names like Matteo and Chloe circulate in Richard’s lies, demonstrating a distorted connection between them. These are two people who suffered an immense tragedy, but reacted in very different ways. Don’t move is about Iris overcoming Richard, allowing her to escape her pain and rediscover hope for a new chapter in her life.