Explain the end of “one whole” with spoilers: it is better not to read the weak heart

Behind the photo is an independent Australian director Michael Schanks, for whom it is a complete debut. The most important roles were played by Dave Franco and Alison Bree – in real life they are also a few. The film has already succeeded in gathering enough hype around him:

• rental rights were sold for $ 17 million After showing on “Sandance”
• The release in the United States took place July 30
• In the first 5 days the film should collect $ 11 million
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating – Almost maximum

But the most important thing that is said now is the final. Below is a detailed analysis with full spoilers.

Caution, spoilers!

In the center of the plot, a few is moving from the city to the rural outback to start a new life. Millie is working as a teacher and her friend Tim tries to adapt to life away from society. Everything changes after their walk through the forest: an underground cave, an overnight stay in an unknown place – and from that moment their body starts to change strangely. It is not about the figurative “merger of souls”, but about the literal transformation: the limbs of Tim and Millie are starting to grow together.

In an attempt to stop the pair process, he first resorts to muscle relaxants and then to the chainsaw. Millie has had the opportunity to distribute for a while and goes back to the cave after the keys to the neighbor Jamie and Tim. In the house Millie finds a video of a strange rite, in which two people who look like Jamie participate. In the video they commit ritual merger by blood. Jamie himself is always starting to behave frightening and convincing Millie that they have no other way out with Tim.

“You have to accept what happens, because the alternative is much worse,” says Jamie before he attacks Millie and cuts her hand.

In the meantime, Tim discovers the remains of the same pair in the cave that has disappeared in these places according to rumors. Their bodies have long been melted into one distorted mass – it was probably what Jamie had in mind, talking about an alternative. The origin of the underground source and the entire cult that stands behind the ritual is not explained – the film deliberately avoids direct statements.

Tim and Millie are home again. Tim is preparing to sacrifice himself so that Millie stays alive – but then Millie loses the consciousness of blood loss; Jamie has wounded more enough. Then Tim still agrees with a merger to save her life.

Millie has awakened, discovers that they have been physically merged and no longer resists. The couple decides not to combat the transformation, but to accept it. Against the background, “2” sounds – a hit of the Spice Girls group.

The last frame shows the merger of the completed: Millie parents come to visit and are confronted with a new being, similar to Tim and Millie at the same time.

The director of the film claims that history is based on his own relationship:

“The partner and I have been together for 16 years, and in these characters – an exaggerated, distorted, but emotionally recognizable version of us,” Schanks said in an interview with Slant.

At the same time, he mentions the end of “romantic and full of love”, despite how gloomy it looks.

Alison Bree, in turn, called “one whole” a peculiar test for a relationship:

“If you separate after this film, you shouldn’t have been together.”