‘Find your true lover, otherwise it will follow you.’
Table of Contents
- ‘Find your true lover, otherwise it will follow you.’
- Who is the director and the actors of It Follows 2014?
- It Follows 2014 Film Analysis:
- Best Scenes In It Follows 2014 Movie:
- Unique aspects of ‘It follows’ horror genre:
- What is the ‘It follows’ curse?
- Why did Jay get surprised when she encountered Jeff’s mom?
- What does the pool symbolize in ‘it follows’?
- Why did Jay give permission to Greg to be intimate with her?
- Why did Jay choose Greg to pass it on?
- Why did Jay detach herself from everyone?
- What is the hidden meaning behind the ending of It follows 2014?
- No matter how big your problem is, if your family and friends are with you, you will definitely be able to sort it out. So keep yourself close to your family and friends.
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Who is the director and the actors of It Follows 2014?
It Follows(2014) is an American horror film which is written & directed by David Robert Mitchell. The leading actors are Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist etc.
It Follows 2014 Film Analysis:
In the first scene, a girl named Annie comes out of a house being so frightened and people around her constantly ask what happened but she doesn’t reply. She takes car keys and drives herself near a river and she talks with her dad over the phone and tells them how much she loves them. Next we see that she is killed in an unimaginably disturbing way.
A lovely innocent girl, Jay, is swimming in a manual swimming pool. She lives with her sisters and a childhood friend. Jay believes in fairytale love where people fall in love with one person and stay happily ever after.
One day she gets introduced to a guy and goes with him to the theatre. Jay tells him about a game which she and her sister play when they are bored. The game is played between two people, one of them will pick two persons from around and the other one will guess who they are. When it is time for the guy to tell whom Jay picked. He tells about someone who doesn’t even exist around. Jay can’t see anyone with a yellow shirt.
Hugh immediately rushes out of the theatre and tells her he is not feeling well. Jay starts dating him. One day, after sex, Jay is talking about her sweet little wishes about how she wants her boyfriend to be like. Instantly, he pushes a handkerchief into her face to make her senseless.
When Jay wakes up, she finds herself in a construction area. He is talking about something which someone passed to him through sex. Now he is passing into Jay. From now on, Jay will see that someone is always following her. Jay needs to stay away and not let her die by them.
If she can’t resist her death caused by them. It will return to him. Jay needs to have sex as soon as possible so that it can pass into someone else. Making sure that she is now seeing, Hugh leaves the place and takes her to home. Police come to investigate the situation and admit her to a hospital. It takes some hours to get back to her normal life.
She comes to her college and attends a class. She is staring inattentively outside the class. Suddenly she notices an old woman is coming towards her. She is walking continuously and is not even blinking. Jay immediately leaves the class.
Walking through the corridor, she sees her again. She tries to contact but that old woman is not listening, just coming towards her. Jay drives herself to her sister’s bar and tells her everything. They listen to what Jay tells them but can’t believe most of the things. Paul, their cousin, decides to stay in their house.
At night, Jay goes downstairs because she can’t sleep. Paul starts to recall their childhood humorous incidents. Suddenly their window glass breaks and everyone sits carefully. Paul goes upstairs to call others’. Jay checks the kitchen and sees a naked lady with a horrible appearance whose vagina is discharging water.
Seeing this Jay runs as fast as she can to lock herself in a room. Everyone comes there and she tells what she saw. They can’t believe it because they don’t see anything. When Yara enters the room, Jay sees another horrible figure and moves out of the house. She cycles herself to a solitary park and swings in a rocking cradle. In this situation, you will definitely expect something fearsome to happen but nothing happens.
Next morning, they all find Hugh’s house and search it. That house is so messed up, the washroom is broken, no furniture, least amount of clothes. Kelly finds some medicine in the washroom. Paul finds a picture of Hugh in the pornos. From the photo they find out his college name and get his address. Jay with her sister, cousin and friend go to Hugh’s house.
Hugh says to Jay she needs to pass it on by having sex with any person. Otherwise it will follow you everywhere. Once he had a one night stand and he assumes this is where it all started. Greg takes all of them in their lake house and teaches Jay how to shoot with a gun. One sunny morning they are sunbathing, suddenly someone pulls Jay’s hair upward.
Jay gets the gun and shoots it. But it stands again and starts walking. Greg tells them to come out but Jay doesn’t listen. Jay goes near the door to check on Greg but another entity scares her so Jay gets out from there, drives her to an accident.
Yara, Paul, Greg, Kelly admit her in the hospital. In the hospital, Greg wants to have sex with Jay and Jay allows him to do that. But three days have passed, and he still doesn’t feel anyone is following him. They ask Greg if he really doesn’t see anything and make him know that whatever Jay is saying is real. But Greg doesn’t believe it.
At night Jay is looking outside and sees a figure looking like Jay is going towards his house. Jay immediately goes to his house and sees a woman wearing nighties knocking at his door. Jay understands it is not real, she yells not to open the door but Greg opens and gets killed.
Best Scenes In It Follows 2014 Movie:
Next morning, she returns home and sleeps with her sisters. Paul expresses his desire towards her. But Jay doesn’t want to destroy any life anymore so she rejects him. Paul notices a picture in the wall where they had their first kiss. Paul decides to take everyone in that place where there is a swimming pool and they spent their childhood there.
Jay gets into water and others pull out things like iron, tape recorder, speaker, mini television etc. They keep those at the edge of the pool so that if anything comes in their way, they will kill it. Jay, standing in the middle of the water, sees a figure, she points it out for others. After several attempts by Paul, it falls into water. Jay tries to get out of the water and that thing hits again but gets shot in the head and dies.
That night, Paul and Jay get intimate with each other but they don’t feel anything different. They don’t see anything anymore and walk along the road holding hands with each other.
Unique aspects of ‘It follows’ horror genre:
What is the ‘It follows’ curse?
One day Hugh met a random girl from a bar. Hugh decided to have a one night stand with her so he didn’t even know her name. After that encounter, Hugh starts to have people following him everywhere and they follow continuously.
They don’t stop. If you don’t get to your close ones immediately, it will catch you and kill you. The only way to get rid of these creatures is having sex with someone and then it will be passed on to the other person.
Why did Jay get surprised when she encountered Jeff’s mom?
After the intimacy, Hugh takes Jay to a ragged building where he tells about what is going to happen with her. Next he sees someone far away. Hugh takes Jay there and Jay sees a woman walking slowly coming towards her.
Finding out Hugh’s real name, Jay goes to Jeff’s home and guess who opens the door. This woman, in other words Mrs. Redmond is the woman whom Jay saw in that building.
Actually these creatures come to follow you disguising themselves as your familiar person. That day, that entity came as Hugh’s mom. Hugh’s mom had no connection with these incidents.
What does the pool symbolize in ‘it follows’?
The four pool scenes symbolize the matter of deteriorating your innocence. Jay was an innocent person who believes in true love. But at the end she passes her curse through sex to someone whom she doesn’t love but he loves her. Surprisingly, it ends the curse because she does it with that person who loves her and it closes the relationship circle.
Why did Jay give permission to Greg to be intimate with her?
Greg doesn’t believe all these. He thinks that Jay is mentally traumatized. So he doesn’t care what will happen after having sex with her. That’s why he wants to have sex after knowing all these. Since he is willing after knowing the truth, Jay allows him to be intimate.
Why did Jay choose Greg to pass it on?
Greg and Paul both love Jay. But Jay chose Greg to have sex with and pass the curse on him. Jay chose Greg because he is brave and capable of handling problems.
Why did Jay detach herself from everyone?
For some days, Jay was going through some horrible experiences. A normal person would definitely be traumatized after having such horror. She always stayed in this fear that someone would break in at any time. So she isolated herself.
What is the hidden meaning behind the ending of It follows 2014?
When they discuss the matter with Hugh, remember what he said. If that entity gets able to kill the person you passed it on, it will come back to you. So you can count it as vice versa. Therefore, killing will stop the mission. But that doesn’t work.
She passes it on having sex with someone who loves her and it ends with a happy ending. Those entities symbolize sexually transmitted diseases. When you choose one partner for your life, that ends the curse and it happens for the sake of love.
