Together--My Take On The Movie With Spoilers!
Plot: Millie and Tim have a strained relationship that takes a peculiar turn when they move to a town and encounter a strange phenomenon.
My Take On The Movie
Together is an awkward title for a movie about a couple that makes you wonder, why are they even together? And no, it's not about Alison Brie and Dave Franco but rather their characters Millie and Tim.
The moment they are introduced in the movie, you can see how tired they look at each other. How bored they are and clearly having second thoughts. It's almost as if they are in a relationship for the sake of it.
This means the actors have actually done a pretty decent job playing these characters that have a complex and tense relationship.
We meet these characters in the middle of the relationship with no idea how they first met and fell in love.
So, when the plot turn occurs, we then understand that deep inside, in spite of all the challenges they are facing, they have true love for each other. Why else would the ending have happened the way it does?
Quick Movie Review
Together is a nuanced film that boasts of clever writing, gory scenes, and capable acting. We don't see actors in designer clothes or caked on makeup but realistic characters, burdened by the complexities of life and challenging careers.
The movie is even unintentionally funny in parts, and you will find yourself questioning whether to be horrified or amused by whatever is going on with these characters.
TOGETHER Movie Plot
The movie opens with a search party looking for a couple, Keri and Simon, in a forest. It's nighttime, and there are two dogs as well who drink water in an underground cave and then look at each other oddly.
Later, when the owner went to check on them after hearing a weird sound, he discovered the two dogs had fused together.
The fact that it happened so quickly means it must have something to do with the "dog years" factor.
Cut to a couple in the city, hosting a farewell party. Millie has landed a teaching job in a town that is far from here. She is discussing with her friend about her boyfriend Tim and that he has no idea.
Outside, Tim is speaking to his band mates, one of whom is Millie's brother. They are trying to convince Tim to work on more music with them and play at concerts.
Tim almost refuses, but Millie's brother says he isn't as cool as he thought he was at first. Tim immediately agrees to continue working in the band and that he will be able to because it's not like he's moving so far away.
Indoors, Millie's friend is already giving a speech about how the couple is moving so far away that they won't be able to see them again.
Tim is giving an awkward speech about being surrounded by loved ones when the guests begin to gasp.
Behind him, Millie is on her knees and mimics opening up a ring box, proposing him. It's cheap and imaginative, so I have to give her that. Tim doesn't think the gesture is cute, though, and is stunned.
Millie "closes" the ring box and looks dejected. Tim tries to save face by mumbling a yes.
Later, in bed, Millie is pissed off at him, and Tim keeps apologizing. When she falls asleep, she mumbles something about him not being able to do anything without her. Tim asks what she means and then turns around to see an older woman sitting on the opposite side of the bed, grinning maniacally beside a man who is dead.
Tim screams and then lifts his blanket to receive a "Grudge" like scare. He wakes up. It has all been a nightmare. He goes to find Millie, who has been unpacking boxes on her own, trying to find the coffee machine. Tim makes amends for his distant behavior by picking her up and helping her unpack.
Inside the house, Tim begins to smell something foul and instinctively climbs up the ladder and pulls out a group of rats that are fused together. Tim thinks they are dead, but one of them let's out a squeal.
Tim takes the abomination of rats outside and tosses them towards the woods. That's nature's problem now.
At school, Millie is standing alone, having tea when an older staff member approaches her and lectures her about using her tea bags. Millie apologized and thought the tea bags were for the staff. A man comes over and asks Millie if she would like some sugar, completely ignoring the older woman who walks away. In the real world, there was no way she was going to walk away without making more of a fuss.
The man is Jamie, who teases the older woman by comparing her to a dry tea bag.
Millie introduces herself and says she does have a boyfriend/partner/friend but doesn't know how to describe him. Jamie tells her that he lives nearby in a yellow house and offers to show her and Tim around the town.
At night, Tim is working on his music, but Millie invites him to come join her in bed. He refuses and, seeing how disappointed she looks, agrees to go on a hike with her the next day.
Of course, the hike isn't as perfect a bonding exercise as the two think, and worse, they get lost and caught in a storm.
Tim slips backward and falls into an underground cave. There is a bell with a strange icon on it. Millie tries to help him up but ends up falling down with him.
She asks how he is, and Tim is more concerned about his phone, which has all his demos. Millie reminds him that he is supposed to ask if she's okay, too, and he forces out the question.
They look around and consider staying in the cave until the storm is over.
Millie is suddenly thirsty, but they only have little water left, which Tim let's her have it. He lies. There is another bottle, but it is wine.
Once Millie empties the water bottle, he takes it and fills water from the cave. He drinks it and says it's safe to drink. They could have also considered collecting rain water, but then, of course, they wouldn't have been able to filter out the contaminants.
Next, they build a fire, and Millie shows him exactly how to do it. Tim has a lighter, and she questions him about it, but he doesn't reply.
These two were on a hike but thought to carry cigarettes and lighters, a secret they both kept from each other.
Anyway, they both admit to being so stressed out from the move that they had begun smoking.
They get talking, and Tim tells her he was able to smell out the rats based on a childhood memory. When he was small, his father would keep complaining of a foul smell, but Tim never could smell anything off. One night, his father got really worked up and took off the ceiling lights to reveal a nest of rats. Every time the lights were turned on, the rats were friends, emitting a foul odor.
Tim's father eventually died, and his mother could not take it mentally. She kept him with her for days until his father rotted and his mother had become fully insane.
This disturbing and ghastly story earns Tim some sympathy. When Tim and Millie wake up in the morning, they find their legs stuck together.
Tim assumes it's some sort of mildew and pulls away only for both of them to tear off some skin.
They then climb up and manage to make it to safety.
Since Millie's phone, which had no signal, had been dunked into water, the first thing she does is put the phone in rice. It also means that they are now out of rice for the moment, among other food.
Millie has already taken her shower but now wants a massage. Tim becomes weirdly fascinated with her skin and starts using it as a squishy ball until Millie slaps his hands away.
She tells him to take a shower while she picks up the groceries.
A strange event occurs where Millie is in her car and Tim in the shower, but every time Millie makes a turn, Tim, whose eyes turn white, moves along with her, even though they are far apart.
Later, when Jamie appears at their doorstep and is overfriendly with Millie, Tim gets possessive and kisses Millie, but their lips get stuck, and they have to really pull hard to separate. Tim also chokes on Millie's hair at one point.
Realizing there may be something wrong with him, Tim goes sees a doctor who diagnoses him as stressed out and prescribes not Valium but diazepam. That means Tim gets the generic kind of medicine for his condition.
The next morning, Millie drops Tim at the train station so that he can go for his gig. But something causes him to abandon his bags at the station and rush off to Millie.
She sees him looking ill and takes him to the boys' bathroom only for Tim to start making out with her. Millie gives in and lets him. They enter a stall where they go further into their intimacy. However, after they are done, they discover to their horror that they can not separate. Millie has to really push him away while placing a hand over Tim's mouth to prevent him from screaming and alerting the kids.
However, one kid had already seen the legs of a woman and her panties on the floor, causing him to complain to Jamie.
When they hear footsteps, Millie gets Tim to climb the toilet while she exits the stall. She makes up an excuse of having to urgently use the bathroom, which is why she had to use the boys' bathroom.
Jamie sends the kid away and then gestures to Millie about the blood that's leaking down her leg. He assumes it's from her period.
Millie uses it as an excuse to get rid of him, but Jamie barely leaves when Tim gets down, and Jamie spots Tim's feet from under the stall. Busted!
At home, Millie and Tim get into an argument, and she accuses him of sabotaging her career. He keeps saying that he thinks something else is going on and that they need to figure it out. He had seen missing posters of Keri and Simon, and when he looked them up online, he saw a photo of them standing in front of the same bell with the icon on it. He suspects there's some cult activity going on and tells this to Millie, who doesn't believe him.
Milllie tells him that she has invited her parents for dinner on Sunday and expects him not to be there. She ends the argument by bringing up Tim's trauma regarding his parents.
She then goes to see Jamie, and when he opens the door, he apologizes for what happens at school before starting to cry. She tells him she's had a fight with Tim.
He makes her sit and offers her water. She should have probably been careful of that water?
Jamie goes on about how he and his partner also had problems and how he doesn't see him anymore. He then wants to show her his wedding video, but Millie spots Tim outside, lingering, and makes up an excuse to leave. Besides, she didn't look particularly interested in his relationship story to begin with.
She drags Tim back to the house, where he keeps insisting they investigate the cave to find out why he's become so clingy all of a sudden. Millie has had enough and suggests they sleep in separate bedrooms.
Before Millie closes the door, Tim tells her feebly that he loves her, but she doesn't reply.
At night, Tim feels a force pushing him out of the room. He gets dragged towards Millie, and he screams. The door to Millie's bedroom opens, and she too is propelled towards him in some weird yoga poses.
It is clear that the two actors are capable of yoga considering the flexibility they have to show in this scene.
Eventually, the two are brought close enough for their arms to fuse. The two scream, and Tim instructs her to reach for his medicine. Millie asks if it is Valium but he corrects her saying it's diazepam. The two take as many as they can, swallowing or snorting them.
Eventually, the fusing process stops. When Tim comes too, he is taped up to a chair. Millie is sitting atop him with an electric saw. She tells him they have no choice but to separate from each other by cutting off the excess skin. Tim wants to rethink the idea, but she reminds him they have no more diazepam, and whatever they took is wearing off. She lets him drink some whiskey before starting the procedure.
Later, we see them both sitting on opposite ends of the kitchen with bandaged arms.
She decides they need to go to the hospital to deal with this issue and makes Tim promise he won't do anything stupid, considering he still wants to investigate the caves for answers.
TOGETHER Ending Spoilers
Millie then remembers she forgot the keys at Jamie's place. She goes to get them while Tim breaks his promise and runs into the woods to the caves.
Inside Jamie's house, the wedding tape is somehow conveniently playing and Millie watches as two men get married and then during a ritual, are fused to become what Jamie looks like now.
Millie is horrified and makes a run for it but he slashes her wrist and mumbles some cult-ish words. She strikes back and Jamie begins to look like two abnormal people.
Meanwhile, Tim finds his own horror in the caves. He sees an amalgamation of Keri and Simon who somehow didn't fuse together like Jamie. There's also a knife sticking out of them hinting that they either tries to kill themselves or that one of them tries to and the other fused with them to keep them alive.
Tim plucks out the knife and uses it slash their fingers before he runs away screaming.
Millie and Tim end up on their driveway at the same time. Apparently the woods is the same distance as Jamie's house.
Millie realizes where Tim had gone and isn't too happy.
He hides his hand behind his back and Millie is skeptical about what he intends to do. He then gets on his knees and gives her the economical proposal where there is no actual ring.
Millie says yes and Tim gets up and puts a knife at his throat saying he wants her to be happy and the only way out is to kill himself.
Millie stops him saying there is another way.
Tim looks down and sees a narrow steam of blood coming towards him. He understands that it is from Millie. She exposes her wound from where she is profusely bleeding and then collapses.
Tim is devastated when she stops responding.
In the next scene, she wakes up to find that Tim has fused his arm with her to stop the bleeding. He then puts on her favorite spice girls song so that they can have their first and last dance. They kiss as the fusing begins.
Much later, it is Sunday and instead of blood and electric saws, we see three plates laid out on the table.
An elder couple gets out of a car. The woman pauses when she spots some blood on the gravel but doesn't think much of it. The couple rings a small bell at the door that has the cult icon on it.
The door opens and it's someone who looks like both Millie and Tim.
The movie ends.
FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE MOVIE
Just imagine how eventful the dinner is going to be. Are Millie's parents going to accept the thing that she has become? Will Millie have to change her name? Is this person going to be a teacher or a musician?
And will they be able to afford the upkeep on one salary? Perhaps the cult can help them in this regard?
Together is an interesting horror movie that can either gross you out or entertain. Watch it and decide how you feel.
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