‘Don’t Move’ Ending Explained: What Happened to Iris?

• Netflix’s new thriller, “Don’t Move,” is topping the streamer’s charts.
• The film follows a woman who is injected with a paralyzing drug and chased by a serial killer.
• The nail-biting ending is explained here.

Warning: Major spoilers ahead for ‘Don’t Move’.

Netflix is ​​doubling down with its latest thriller, nerve-wracking films about serial killers:Don’t move.”

Last week, “Woman of the Hour‘ was the most watched film on Netflix in the US, but has now been dethroned by ‘Don’t Move’, which premiered on Friday.

Both films are about serial killers, a subject that has been explored in Hollywood films for decades and which Netflix has found success with in recent years thanks to hits like ‘You’ and ‘You’.Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”

“Don’t Move” doesn’t have the same audience-engaging power as “Woman of the Hour,” but the premise does the heavy lifting.

In the film, Iris (Kelsey Asbille) mourns the death of her child and plans to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff in the middle of a forest.

But she meets Richard (Finn Wittrock), a handsome, charismatic man who brings her back from the edge before kidnapping her.

When Iris tries to escape, Richard reveals that he has injected her with a drug that will paralyze her entire body within an hour. Thus begins a tense chase as Iris tries to escape Richard before she can no longer move her body.

In ‘Don’t Move’ Iris has to save herself

The paralyzing drug works quickly, incapacitating Iris within the first hour of the film. Then Iris is at the mercy of other people who find her paralyzed body.

A hermit finds her, then a mother and child, and a cop notices Iris trapped in a truck with Richard. None of them immediately realize that she is in danger, and by the time they do, it is too late to save her.

The hermit and the cop also almost hand Iris over to Richard, believing her to be his mentally unstable or alcoholic wife. They only realize Richard is lying after he makes a stupid mistake, but he kills both men before they can help Iris escape.

These scenes reflect conversations across society about religious victims brought forward by police #MeToo movementand the role men can play in supporting women and stopping behaviors that enable abuse.

In “Don’t Move”, Iris saves herself. In the final scenes of the film, Richard takes Iris to the lake to kill her and bury her in the water.

By the time Richard rows a boat to the center, the drug has worn off and Iris can move her body in short bursts.

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She tricks Richard into getting close to her, steals his knife and stabs him in the neck. Iris forces Richard out of the boat and shoots him with a gun he took from the officer.

Richard begins to swim to shore and Iris’s boat begins to sink due to a leak from the gunfire. But somehow she regains full body movement just in time for a swim.

Iris saying ‘thank you’ to Richard has two meanings

After returning to shore, Iris finds Richard bleeding by the lake. She kneels and says, “Thank you,” before walking away.

Some fans may have missed what that scene was referring to.

While Iris is still paralyzed, Richard tells her about his ex-lover, Chloe, who died before his eyes in a car accident.

As Chloe dies, Richard realizes that he enjoys watching women die. He says it makes him feel like God, so he starts luring women into the woods to kill them and recreate that feeling.

Richard told Iris that his last words to Chloe as she died were, “Thank you.” So Iris says it back at the end as revenge.

Asbille and the film’s directors, Brian Netto and Adam Schindler, told the story Tudum that Iris also sincerely thanked Richard for inspiring her to live. Her grief has left her emotionally paralyzed, but now she is free and determined to stay alive.

“It’s double-edged, because on the one hand she’s sticking it to him, but there’s a genuine realization on her part of, ‘Wow, OK, I owe this man my life because I didn’t want to fight for my life.’ before I met him,” Netto said.