The Boy (2016)- My take on the movie with spoilers
PLOT SUMMARY: Greta takes up a job as a nanny only to find out she is given in charge of a doll. But soon she discovers the doll may be alive.
Often you come across people with peculiar habits and even stranger lifestyles. They might be doing things that seem strange to you but to them, that is the most normal thing in the world. It is then that your limitations for tolerance are tested. Can you adjust yourself to a lifestyle that seems completely bizarre to you?
THE BOY Movie Plot
We are introduced to Greta from the very beginning- a woman from America who accepts a job in a small English town. I suppose the reason she even accepts this job is so that she could put a substantial difference between her and her abusive boyfriend.
She soon makes acquaintance with Malcolm- a man who delivers groceries for the family and then meets the parents whereupon she’s introduced to Brahms- not a boy but a porcelain doll.
As anyone would have in such an incredulous situation, Greta begins to laugh until she realizes that the parents are serious and she comes to the shocking realization that she would have to take care of a doll.
Normally, the work should be easier, I mean the parents leave, she gets paid a lot of money and she could do whatever she wanted considering she doesn’t have to take care of an actual boy- and this is what Greta does. She throws a blanket over Brahms and goes about doing absolutely whatever she wants. That is unless she finds Brahms staring right at her.
Brahms is no weapon-wielding, maniacal Chucky, which is a good thing but he isn’t as boring and lifeless as Robert the doll or Annabelle either. My biggest peeve with Robert and Annabelle was how dull the movies were and how they weren’t creepy at all.
Brahms doesn’t say a word at all, but he’s creepy as hell. I think that has more to do with the direction and story. Sure, Brahms is staring at Greta, but there is something more unnerving about him turning up at places he shouldn’t be or that there’s a clipboard of rules on how to treat him, just next to him.
Greta is horrified when she realizes that Brahms must be a doll possessed by the son who died twenty years ago and is frightened to death until she realizes that he just wants her to be nice to him and even makes her a sandwich.
Malcolm is sceptical when she first tells him, but it is when she proves that the doll moves, that he is convinced though afraid of the boy that is possessing him. Turns out that Brahms had never been a sweet little kid. He had allegedly killed his playmate and then burned down the house which supposedly killed him as well.
THE BOY Ending Explained with Spoilers!
It is when Cole- Greta’s abusive boyfriend turns up that a twist is revealed. Not one to keep secrets for long, here’s what happens: Brahms is actually alive. He is now an adult who wears a mask, identical to the doll’s face. I suppose it is because his face was disfigured in the fire. Anyway, when Cole smashes the doll into smithereens, the real Brahms is enraged and goes on a rampage. He creeps out from behind a wall and finishes off Cole.
Then he goes after Greta and Malcolm, though I’m not sure why.
Didn’t he like LIKE Greta? Or maybe he wanted to kill off Malcolm. The duo finds a passage that leads behind the walls and apart from Great making a startling discovery that she was being spied on, she finds a letter from Brahms’ parents who more or less inform their son that their duties are over and that the ‘girl is his’.
In a flashback, we are shown the parents walking towards the lake, putting rocks into their coats and drowning themselves. Over here, I didn’t feel too much sympathy for the parents who were making their escape and leaving behind a harmless woman to deal with their psychotic son.
And what did they mean when they said the girl was his? To marry? To be a mother to him or to be his toy in his sick games?
I think in some sick twisted way, the parents were fulfilling their duties by helping their son get into a relationship with a normal girl since Greta turned out to be younger than the other nannies they had before.
Getting back to the movie, Brahms chases them, they try to outdo him but Malcolm is caught and injured. Greta almost makes it to the gates but then stops because she wants to save Malcolm.
She goes back, instructs Brahms that she is his nanny and it was time for him to go to bed. Then while she “kisses” his goodnight, she stabs him.
As in all slasher movies, the killer gets up, so Brahms is shocked but gains superhuman strength and strangles Greta; even pushes her up against the wall!
With whatever mortal strength Greta has, she pushes the knife further into Brahms and eventually, he collapses.
Greta flees, taking Malcolm with her and escapes the town. In the final scene, we are shown someone putting together the Brahms doll.
Now, who could that be?
The Boy was a thrilling movie. The characters were well etched out, the story was thrilling and there were some genuinely creepy moments.
All in all, well worth a watch!
Scare Scale: 4/5
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