Crews of Hatching 2022:
Hatching(2022) is a Finnish psychological horror film directed by Hanna Bergholm starring Siiri Solalinna.
Story Analysis of Hatching 2022:
It is a story of a Finnish family. Tinja is a 12 year old gymnast whose mother Matka has a vlog channel in social media. She depicts her family as a happy, blessed and progressive family. But the truth of her life is different that we would know about gradually.
One day, Mom is making a video. At that time a bird messes up her interior intruding her home. But it can’t be alive for long as she breaks its neck and throws it in a bin. At night Tinja finds the crow in the forest crying out in pain. She thrashes its head with a stone but brings the bird’s egg in her home.
Next day, she attends the gym class but can’t perform according to the way she must have done for the competition. Her friends offer to go for a walk but she refuses as she needs to take a run towards home. At home, she catches her mom having an affair with a mechanic. Tinja gets upset even if her mom presents it in a different way and offers to keep it a secret.
After two days of a business trip when she was actually with her boyfriend, Matka is back at home. She finds Matias making waffles while Tinja is filming it. Conversely, the egg is surprisingly bigger now.
Matka doesn’t allow her rest until it is perfect because Reetta is already better than her. Matka is a social media addict who needs to show the world her girl is perfect. Everything about her is perfect. At night, Matka confesses to her daughter that she is in love with Tero. Tero is the best thing that ever happened to her. Matka is going away this weekend too.
Tinja doesn’t show her anxiety, unhappiness to her mom. She can’t say she isn’t happy about her infidelity. The egg is much bigger now. Tinja keeps crying while holding the egg. Then suddenly it is hatched. A big birdly creature with big teeth, comes out. Next day, when the demonic bird comes again, Tinja understands it considers her a mom. She showers it in her bathroom. She even sings it to sleep but the sleep doesn’t last long as the dog starts barking.
The demon bird kills it right away as it was harming Tinja’s sleep. Tinja buries the dog in her garden but Matias sees it. He even tells his father but dad immediately leaves the room when he sees blood in Tinja’s bed thinking she has had her period. After, Tinja gets to know about Reetta’s dog, which is lost. Tinja knows that demon bird killed it but as the bird loves her she doesn’t spill the bean. Returning home, she finds mom who has bought a gift for her.
That makes Matias jealous and he brings that dead dog to them saying Tinja killed it but nobody believes him. Matias is about to leave angrily but he notices something in Tinja’s room that takes him there. He feels the presence of some ghostly creature but can’t determine what it is. Mom checks her room too but nothing makes any difference.
Tinja names her Alli and feeds it her vomit as birds are naturally designed to eat mom’s vomit. At night Alli dresses up and scares Matias. Next day, we see Tinja is combing Ali’s hair and it is almost looking like a girl. Next day, Reetta again performs better than Tinja. When the practice ends, Tinja gets nervous because of Reetta. Alli feels her anxiety and attacks Reetta when she is on her way back home.
Tinja feels something terrible has happened. She screams in the car and then mom calms her saying competition is always stressful. The best way to get rid of stress is to win the competition. She suggests that she can spend this weekend in Tero’s house to remove her stress. Returning home Tinja finds only the beak of Alli. Tinja thinks Alli is dead.
In the morning, Tinja and Matka set off for Tero’s house. Tinja gets in her room fearfully as Alli will be there at any time. We notice Alli after, looking exactly like Tinja. This demon which once was a bird, now has become Tinja. Tero is a good man although he is breaking Tinja’s happy family but he understands Tinja’s pain. Tinja is doing gymnastics only to fulfil her mom’s wish otherwise she has no interest in it at all.
While Tinja is showing off some of her skills, she hears Alli’s call. She vomits into a bowl but the sound touches Tero. He opens up the door and sees Alli is coming towards him fiercely. Tero gets hurt although he makes a promise to Tinja, he will not tell anything to Matka. Today is the competition day and Tinja is anxious what if Alli does any harm to Helmi, Tero’s daughter.
Tinja’s Gymnastics Competition in Hatching 2024:
Today is the competition where Reetta is not performing as she is terribly hurt. But Tinja fails, intentionally hurting her hand when Alli is going to attack Helmi. Alli knew that Tero was going to tell everything to Matka he saw that day. We know when Tinja gets hurt, Alli gets scars in the same part. So Alli can’t hurt Helmi. Tero sees her escaping through the window.
Failed in the competition, Tinja and mom return to Tero’s house. Tero gets so angry seeing Tinja as he thinks Tinja attacked his baby Helmi. Matka doesn’t understand his words so she goes after him to talk with him. Conversely, Tinja keeps calling Alli. Mom breaks up with Tero and breaks down hitting her head with the dashboard.
At home, Tinja throws Alli out of the window but it returns and hides in the closet. Mom combs Alli’s hair thinking Alli her daughter but her hair falls off with the comb and it scares Matka. Tinja comes and Matka doesn’t understand how there are two Tinja. Tinja clarifies everything to her mom and mom understands what she needs to do now.
She stabs Alli but eventually Tinja dies instead of Alli because Alli takes Tinja’s blood and gets alive.
