@tvtrav3ler I think the mum purposefully took enough pills to commit suicide and then she regret it and tried to leave to get help but the door was closed. Presumably she would have been crawling.
(2) I had no issues with the audio whatsoever, all conversations were clear to me. The initial explanation of the mother's death was as you say; my interpretation was that Mia's mother (Rhea) had taken too many sleeping pills in her bedroom, presumably noticed a few minutes later something was wrong and tried to get help, but found herself too weak to open the bedroom door and died banging and clawing at the door, but nobody was able to open the door in time. Much later in the movie, Mia's father (Max) admits that Rhea left a suicide note and reads it to Mia. Adding the two together, my best understanding is that Rhea intentionally took the sleeping pills in an attempt to end her own life, then eventually her survival instinct kicked in, but she was already too weak too open the door, and finally died while banging and clawing at the door.
(3) I thought the main rule of the hand was quite clear: When you touch the hand and say the magic words, a spirit gets to possess your body until you stop touching the hand. Through experience, the characters had found that this is consequence-free for a maximum of 90 seconds. As the movie progressed, though, Mia's mental state deteriorated, and the line between real ghosts and delusions started to fade, which may have added to the confusion.
Though the characters are dumb, they were not much dumber than the kid who smokes a cigarette at the start despite knowing he might get cancer, and not much dumber than teenagers using party drugs. Mia was definitely a tragic character: She was desperate for a connection with someone, saw how much fun the others were having, was deceived by spirits into thinking she could connect with her mother, and finally succumbed to her own inability to overcome her mother's death.
@tvtrav3ler #3 is what made me dislike the film. The kids are seeing something sooooo wild, the presence of life after death ... and they laugh about it as if its a VR game. I also see the movie is going to be a three series set: the main film, a sequel, and a prequel short film
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3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Talk to Me’:
It peaked with that brutal scene, when the game took a violent turn (I straight-up gasped), which was fairly early on, and the rest of the film never really reached that level of shock again.
Was it just me, or was the audio pretty awful? So many conversations were unclear. I couldn’t understand how the mom died. She took too many pills, on accident, and then clawed at the door? How does that work?
I really liked the concept of the hand (albeit somewhat confusing). And I think it’s interesting to see it used as some sort of party game. But when characters are dumb enough to revel in something so awful, it’s difficult to care about their fate. I wasn’t fully invested in them.