The Curse and Ending of Wounds Explained

Summary

• Will's life falls apart after he picks up a cursed phone and comes to a strange end with the summons of a mysterious group and the devil.
• Wounds incorporates elements of Gnosticism and the occult, using revealed imagery and cockroaches as metaphors for toxicity and energy.
• Will was a perfect vessel for Aeon because of his inner turmoil. The ending of the film remains a mystery and serves as a cautionary tale.

The Wounds the film's curse and ending told how a bartender named Will (Armie Hammer) finds his life in turmoil when he picks up a cursed phone. The Netflix movie offers a surreal and somewhat disturbing look at what happens when you get involved with forces you don't understand. Director Babek Anvari Wounds Will is on a downward spiral after a messy night at work. Slow and creepy plot Wounds it remains entirely with the Will from beginning to end.

Using only a few locations, the film builds a mythology that Will and by extension the audience are only partially familiar with. What finally happens is the result of someone else's dark magicmakes what's going on all the more heartbreaking and difficult to discern. Part possession story, part demon summoning, all psychological thriller, Wounds it doesn't do much to explain exactly what happened and why. Here's a rundown of the exact details and some of the ideas behind them.

What Really Happens at the End of Wounds

A monster emerges and Merges with Will

In the last scene WoundsWill goes to the second floor of his bar to visit his friend Eric (Brad William Henke). At this point, Will's life has fallen apart—partly because of the strange, phone-controlled curse that plagues him, and partly because he's in a paranoid, loveless relationship. After dumping her boyfriend and quitting her job, she needs a place to stay and runs into Eric.who has not been seen since his face was revealed in the case.

Will finds Eric in a mess covered in filth and cockroaches. The wound on Eric's cheek is black from infection and he tries to leave Will. Will asks Eric about a possible gift he's going to give him. The gift was from the mysterious group that had been stalking Will since the night Eric was injured – the ones who kept him in a black car and texted Will on a phone filled with strange, bloody footage he took at a bar.

He hangs up and a swarm of cockroaches appears in the apartment.

The gift is a phone returned after Will throws it out of his car, which Will finds in Eric's bedside table drawer. After finding the phone, Will receives another text telling him that his gift is “wrapped in flesh”, which he realizes is Eric's body. Will calls Garrett and gets an atonal noise on the other end. He hangs up and a swarm of cockroaches appear in the apartment, something starting to emerge from the scarred skin on Eric's face.

As the ritual intensifies, Will asks the creature that appears to enter him, and cleverly the film breaks the fourth wall with cockroaches landing on camera. They confuse the monster, the same entity shown in quick glimpses up to this point, leaving Eric's cheek and entering Will's mouth before the film hits the credits.

The origin of the Curse of Wounds explained

The Phone Captures One's Weaknesses

The title “Wounds” is a collection of tomes of a gnostic ritual literally called “Translation of Wounds”. Gnosticism is an ancient belief system that preaches the rejection of the material world in favor of the spirit world and that there is an unknowable God, capable of summoning smaller beings called Aeons with whom humans can communicate more directly.

Rituals are based on invocation through pain and suffering.

Garrett and his friends, a group of college kids picking up their phone at a bar, found a set of these books and decided to try some of their rituals by getting into the occult through online forums. Rituals are based on summoning through pain and suffering, so living flesh must be involved. The images and videos Will saw on the phone of corpses and anything trying to crawl out of a decapitated head were the adventures of that group. Wounds worked.

After that, Garrett and the phone became a tube of sorts – A connection between Aeon and Will's world that will lead him to a perfect ship. Garrett found that perfect vessel in Will. It's an interesting plot device, using aspects of found footage and making Will's story essentially a sequel to a more formulaic film about a group of college students being dumbfounded by forces they can't fathom.

What do cockroaches in wounds mean?

Cockroaches represent impurity and corruption

Will is surrounded by cockroaches throughout the film. Insects act as a visual marker for Aeon's unifying energy and a metaphor for Will's toxicity crept in. The film first shows Will visibly upset with his friend Alicia, played by Zazie Beetz, who has a new girlfriend, and Will and his girlfriend keep showing up at his apartment.

The soul forms a swarm of cockroaches, the process of which is about to be completed

Later, towards the end, the spirit that is about to complete its process forms hordes of cockroaches, making a direct connection between personal demons and the actual demonology in the film. Living in an old, toxic life is like living with constant insects – and there's never enough repellent to fight them all.

Why Will Was the Perfect Vessel

He is an Idle Man

At first, it seems that Will's life is being torn apart by the Aeon Woundsbut the spirit only accelerates what is happening. Will's relationship with his girlfriend Carrie (Dakota Johnson) had become stale and he believed she was cheating on him. His work was pleasant but desperate and he developed feelings for Aliciawhose new relationship he almost ruined out of jealousy.

The will is emptied – an empty shell, going through the motions

Aeon hangs over all of these events, especially chasing Carrie, and some of the dialogue is delivered in such a way that it's not clear if Carrie is actually saying it or if Will is just imagining things differently. Will became an empty shell, going through the motions—making it the ideal subject for a spirit to call home. The plot of the story suggests that the entire ordeal was staged by the college kids, who made sure Eric got hurt and the phone stayed with Will.

The True Meaning of Healing Wounds

He will descend into wickedness and immorality

The whole meaning Wounds The monsters were probably less about someone trying to infect someone and more about the act of someone in a funk in life where nothing else mattered. The entire turnover of Will (and to some extent Kerry) it was their acquisition of destructive tendencies. Cockroaches and their association with filth was an obvious comparison here. Will's immoral instincts drive him to do terrible things, from cheating to gaslighting, making him a great vessel for evil.

Ultimately, the film is a metaphor for a life where everything goes through until suddenly everything is different. Aeons are (probably) not real, but jealousy and unhealthy relationships can still be extremely toxic. Better not give the evil spirits something to feed on inside if someone can help it. Carrie lashes out at Will when she sees the phone, and Will lashes out at her in return. Will tries to seduce Alicia and ends up losing her morals and free will.

How the Wounds Ended

The film received mostly poor reviews

Neither critics nor audiences reacted favorably Wounds. Active Rotten Tomatoescritics awarded it a rotten rating of 47%, and audiences were even worse, with 14% as rotten. The audience scores were mostly Because the movie doesn't really answer the questions the movie asks. One person wrote, “As the movie went on, it just kept adding more questions without giving any answers and making no sense“Someone else wrote:”The whole thing fails to come together in any coherent way.”

Most critics were more unimpressed. When discussing the ending and how it leaves more questions than answers, Collider film critic Perry Nemiroff wrote:Mystery endings can be very effective, especially when they send you out the door considering what happened. Wounds does that, but the ending is so out of left field and unsupported that the whole story unravels when you think about it.” While he offers only small compliments Wounds, rogerebert.com critic Nick Allen wrote:

“A metaphor of Lovecraftian origin comes into play, and while the emotional aspects aren't entirely tied to the more outlandish features, the overtly non-horror developments send the film in an unexpectedly dark direction, and for the worse.”

However, there were positive reviews. of Amy Nicholson Diversity He understood the plan of the Gnostics and appreciated what they had to say about the ultimately depraved people. Wounds. “The problem for Will and the other roustabouts at Rosie's bar is that their core is filled with lust, violence and anger. As for Anvari, he is content to watch these vile volcanoes rumble and explode.”