Cast and crews of Oculus 2013:
Oculus(2013) is an American supernatural psychological horror film directed by Mike Flanagan. It stars Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaits etc.
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- Cast and crews of Oculus 2013:
- Plot Analysis of Oculus 2013:
- Eleven years earlier; Oculus 2013:
- When the two different time collides in Oculus 2013:
- The Ending of Oculus 2013:
- Memorable quotes and dialogues in Oculus 2013:
- Vocabulary:
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Plot Analysis of Oculus 2013:
Kaylie tracked it down through second bidders, people who lost at the auctions. It was in storage, part of an estate collection in Bremen( it is a city in Germany). It took her a year and a half to get it into our warehouse and it is about to ship out to a new buyer.
They only have a few days, but it should be enough to keep their promise and to kill it. At the present time, Tim books a room in a hotel for him. Tim promised Kaylie he would never forget what really happened but he is reluctant now. Kaylie says she is gonna do it tomorrow night and she could really use his help.
At night, having a night terror Kaylie screams in sleep and Michael calms her. Michael takes her off the auction network as there are some graphic crime scenes that have been found from her computer. Kaylie put in a transfer order for the Lasser Glass. She informs Michael it is done for repairing the glass.
Michael wants to know the reason behind the corpse print-outs. Kaylie opens up about dealing with some dark stuff along with Tim. She suggests to him just to bear it a day or two more. Things will get back to normal.
Kaylie gets the mirror in their old house where they lost their parents. Tim joins her but is reluctant to stay for long. Kaylie starts her experiment by opening three cameras. They will record if any anomalies occur.
She has stored foods, water bottles, and alarms for the hospital. Each room is fitted with its own thermostat from which data is collected by software. The purpose is to prove the activity of the supernatural force of the Lasser glass.
This object is responsible for 45 deaths in the four centuries. She describes some history of Lasser glass. The alarm rings to recall food time. Tim thinks they were kids when the incident happened. Their father really was a sick man who murdered their mom.
Kaylie slaps him for saying that. Then she talks about Marisol who dies in her bedroom of haemorrhaging due to a miscarriage. In her nightstand, they find every single one of her teeth in a pillar plastic bag. Tim correctifies her there is a huge difference between causation and correlation.
In 2001, mom and dad bought that new couch. Same year, grandpa had a heart attack, Robbie Schultz got hit by a car and their cat ran away. Is Kaylie gonna blame that couch?
Kaylie keeps talking in front of the camera ignoring him. The mirror adorns the home office of Allan Russell, their dad. Within two weeks of its arrival, Marie suffers an intense mental breakdown and is tortured and murdered in the family home. For torturing their mom, Tim killed his father.
Tim feels guilty for what he did but Kaylie doesn’t approve of it. She knows it’s liability goes to Lasser glass. Tim takes a chair to break the glass but doesn’t do it. Instead he says he knows what people do when they can’t process loss, the mind creates all kinds of protection to help them cope.
But Kaylie believes the mirror makes him unarmed. Kaylie keeps ignoring him and shows him how she is gonna destroy the mirror. Kaylie gives him a water bottle to hydrate the trees and cover the dog. In their old days, the mirror affected their dog and dried out the plants. Kaylie and Tim are arguing over Mason’s unusual behaviour.
Alice Carden’s Australian shepherd, Tobin Capp’s Dalmatian, the pets were never found. It clearly shows the Lasser glass is responsible. Tim thinks Mason was sick. He was vomiting, accidents all over the house. His therapist had him research Parvo virus. It’s a fatal canine illness which incidentally can kill plants.
Kaylie can’t believe Tim is remembering it that way. She saw Mom lock Mason in the office and she sat outside that door all day and nobody went in or out. When he tells about fuzz theory(check quote section), Kaylie dismisses the point as it is baseless.
Tim emphasises that Alan was having an affair. It was a bad marriage. But a bad marriage can’t explain how Marie had no teeth, no hair, no mind left by the time she died. That also can’t explain the other people they both saw in the house that night.
Tim still thinks he was having an affair because of Alan’s secretive behaviour. Kaylie says she had gone through his father’s file, there was not a single evidence of having an affair. He was seduced but we have to see who seduced him.
Kitchen alarm rings and Kaylie gives Tim an apple to eat and sees he is changing lights. That means, Tim is totally into it like her. They both are working together. Kaylie can see the younger Tim looking at the mirror and can see her father taking food for her mom.
One of the bulbs is fused, she changes it but fuses again. She changes again and bites the bulb thinking it is an apple. Her mouth gets full of blood but it’s the trick of the mirror. When Tim comes, realises the thing in her hand is an apple. They realise they should stay together otherwise the mirror will get the chance to trick them.
Kaylie gets a little drowsy resting on the mirror and the mirror has almost set the killer machine towards her but she wakes up at the right time. Since they lose electricity, she sets backup lights and breaks a dead plant tob. Kaylie gets confused between real broken pieces and surreal ones. She stabs her dead mom but in reality it is her fiance Michael.
Kaylie breaks down, killing her boyfriend. Tim takes her out and tries to convince her to stay outside. Tim calls 911 for help and they respond. Tim says they don’t have to do anything. They just sit here and watch that thing die. The kill switch will kill automatically when it’s time.
Suddenly the electricity lights up the whole house. They see themselves in the house but can’t decide whether it’s a trick to get them back inside or it’s a trick to keep them standing outside. After that they make a call again to 911 and this time the mirror plays its dirty game.
Eleven years earlier; Oculus 2013:
We see young Kaylie and Tim are shifting to their new home with their parents. Marie asks Alan if he expanded the furniture order. He replies that there are more coming. Marie laughs and thinks it’s a bit ostentatious.
At night, a female figure seen in the dark by Alan but for a glance. Next day, when Kaylie and Tim are busy playing, Kaylie notices a lady who is grooming Alan’s shoulder. But he denies it later at the dinner table.
Alan got a scar in his nail while biting that. He taped it and now is gonna open it. But he plucks the whole nail instead of the tape. You can’t define what you just see. Something paranormal is occuring. Later he calls Kaylie and Tim to make them explain about messing up his room that they don’t know about. Alan also thinks they are spoiling their mother’s plants too.
Alan has got his gun in case anyone attacks them, he will use it. But Marie doesn’t like roaming around with guns in front of children. When Marie is about to go out of the room, she hears Alan saying ‘Grotesque cow’. She asks him about it but he denies.
At night, the dog starts barking in front of Alan’s office. Marie makes him stop but in return, gets bitten by the dog. Marie hears Alan talking with someone inside. She thinks Alan is lost in his own world. Alan shouted saying he is working.
Mason, the dog starts barking again in front of Alan’s office. Marie locks him into the office and she can’t unlock it later. Alan comes and finds the dog more sick.
Kaylie again sees the woman in Alan’s office and Marie is also hearing the woman’s voice from inside. They argue over the matter one night which wakes up Kaylie and Tim.
Marie finds out about a woman living in Alan’s office whom he is continuing an affair with. Kaylie and Tim both have seen her. Marie enters Alan’s office and discovers a woman’s name written chaotically on a paper. She gets disheartened and throws angrily towards the mirror.
Immediately the mirror waves her and hypnotises her. She attacks the children but they lock themselves in their room. Alan comes home and finds Marie erratic. He holds her in such a way that she faints. Then he ties her in her room and makes that room restricted for the children.
Kaylie tells Alan they need groceries and the tv needs to be fixed. He keeps them on his list and continues to look at the mirror. They go to mom’s room and find mom in an indescribable situation. Kaylie doesn’t understand why her father isn’t calling a doctor. She calls a doctor but Alan makes him leave explaining the situation wrongly. Kaylie notices Alan always looks at the mirror.
The electricity goes, Tim comes to his dad and encounters a grotesque looking entity which was seducing Alan. Alan takes his gun and Tim sees it. Tim and Kaylie plan to smash the mirror. But Marie chases them to kill as Alan releases her. But Marie can recognise her children and at that moment the mirror makes Alan kill her.
When the two different time collides in Oculus 2013:
Tim watches the young Tim and Kaylie going inside the room. He understands the mirror is playing with them. He is looking for Kaylie but can’t find. Kaylie is watching their younger self too.
We can clearly understand they both are following their younger self. Old Tim tells old Kaylie that they made the right call outside. The mirror is trying to keep them away. They need to go outside so that the mirror can’t trick them.
But they can’t get outside and the mirror isolates them from each other. Young Tim and Kaylie hit the mirror repeatedly but they fail to break it. Alan comes and makes Tim kill him and it breaks a part of the mirror and several dead people come out of the mirror.
Suddenly Tim comes out to reality and Kaylie watches her mom in the mirror. She can’t realise that it isn’t real. Tim immediately switches the anchor. But unfortunately it kills Kaylie.
The Ending of Oculus 2013:
Just like his childhood, Tim again kills his family member unintentionally but the police whom he called, don’t believe him but understand this isn’t normal. He might be sick. So it’s likely that he will be sent to the mental hospital.
Memorable quotes and dialogues in Oculus 2013:
‘I will never expect you to understand that part of my life.’
Michael is a quiet, modest boy who was Kaylie’s fiance. He wanted to know what she was dealing with. Kaylie didn’t want to bring him into this. That’s why she asserted it.
‘Have you ever heard of the fuzzy trace theory of human psychology?’
Our brains actually encode information as fuzzy traces. More like a general meaning than an exact record. Adults are more likely to combine those traces into false memories.
‘We are gonna have to get really, really brave.’
This line, Tim and Kaylie told each other whenever they needed motivation to go ahead and to take a brave step against dark entities.
Vocabulary:
Oculus:
An eye-like opening at the opening of a dome.
Requisition:
An official order to claim the use of any particular material.
Ostentatious:
Stylish, Showy
