The Ritual brain rot is setting back in, and I got thinking about the dreams they all had in the cabin that first night. We later find out Dom dreamed of his death, and it's heavily implied that's what Hutch and Phil dreamed about too. Luke is the only odd one out, having a strange dream set in the liquor store before being marked by Möder. It makes sense, of course, that Luke didn't dream of his death- he's chosen by Möder and is the only one not to die by the end, so of course his dream was different.
Except it wasn't. Not really.
The liquor store robbery, Rob's death, Luke's freezing- all of it irrevocably changed who Luke is as a person. His world is shattered that night, and his sense of his self is shattered along with it. Luke isn't the same person after the robbery and no matter what he does, he can never go back to being that person again. That person is gone. Dead. Nothing more than a memory for Luke to mourn alongside his friend as he tries to pick the pieces back up. His friends dream of their final moments at the hands of Möder, but Luke- Luke dreams of his final moments as the person he used to be.
All four friends dream of their deaths that first night in the cabin. One of them just happened to have died six months before
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Okay, people who have seen “The Ritual”, I need help - at one point in the film Luke takes out a package of unopened energy bars and I thought at first this was signaling “Luke is an asshole hoarding food and hurting his friends” but now I think it’s “Luke is grieving and punishing himself by not eating his food” and “Luke is going to give his friends food to try to win them back” and I need feedback because I’m rewatching this while stoned and simply MUST write an essay on this. Urgent, please advise 🙃
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I’m rewatching The Ritual {2017}
seriously it’s such an amazing movie it made me buy the book.
but now it’s making me want to write shit for Luke because I love this man and I feel so bad for him.
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Oh I am having THOUGHTS about the exchange Hutch and Luke have the night before they head into the woods. When Hutch says he's thinking of doing more hiking once they're done with the trail and Luke responds with, "No, I think this is enough for me."
On the surface, it's a man who's depressed and traumatized backing away from an activity with someone he now feels awkward and uncomfortable around. Which makes sense. Hutch refuses to acknowledge how their relationship has changed until much later, but it very much has changed and Luke is clearly aware of this. It's a good moment that highlights the dynamic between the two of them.
But then I started thinking about the line in the context of the films themes about facing and overcoming trauma. Of Luke's arc from survivor's guilt to recognizing his life still has meaning and is worth living. An arc that ends with Luke making the active choice to live.
And suddenly, the simple line "No, I think this is enough for me" hits a whole lot harder
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I’ve recently rewatched a movie called The Ritual(2017) based on the book writed by Adam Nevill and I must say that I truly loved this movie!
The acting, the settings, the feeling of being trapped in those woods without having a way out. I really loved all the details and I love how from a movie of 4 guys going on a hiking trip in the mountains after one of their best friends died, went to a true real life nightmare.
I first watched this movie when I was like in 7th grade and I was a scared lil kid back then and when I watched it for the first time I shit myself from how scared I was and I coudn’t watch more of the movie, I’ve watch only like half of it. And than this year I’ve decided to give it a try and man I really fell in love with it. I even rewached it three times already.
I like how there aren’t many jumpscares and just a little bit of gore but I was really interested in the nordic mythology and for me personally this movie is very important.
I really loved the 4 main characters that ones being Luke(the main protagonist), Hutch, Dom and Phil. They are just some good ol’ university friends trying to connect again after so much time by going on a trip in the Sweden mountains to honour their dead friend Rob who was killed in a store by some robers.
Luke as I said is the main protagonist and he is the one who the movie is happening around him. He was the one who was with Rob when he was killed and he didn’t take action to save him or help him and now himself and the rest of the group blames him for what happend to Rob.
Everyone blames him exept for Hutch(the second main character) who is the leader of the group and the most closest to Luke. He is the only one who don’t blames Luke and the only one who still considers Luke his friend.
Dom is like the crybaby drama queen of the group. He is always the one with the big mounth and complains alot. He is like that one annoying friend but you still care about him beacuse you know him how he is. Dom is the one who blames Luke for what happend and that grows the tension between the group.
Phill is the character with the less characterization not having a clear personality and most of the movie being in the background. Not a big fan of this character beacuse of the lack of personality he has and beacuse he had so much potential to have a good role in the group instead of just being there.
I won’t get too much into the details since I want to create separate posts for my review or discussing about this movie since this might be my new hyperfixation for a while 🤷♂️
I’ll just talk more about it and maybe starting doing some fanarts of it since I wanted to do that since my first rewatched of it.
I wanna buy the book as well to read it beacuse now I wanna consume as much as I can from this series, movies, books, youtube videos, theories, fanarts, fanfics ANYTHING.
I know not many people are interested in this movie anymore but I’ll still create these posts maybe, maybe someone who still likes this movie in 2023 will discover my blog :,)
So that’s it for now, I’ll continue posting stuff about the ritual for a while since I have this hyperfixation for two weeks already and it doesn’t wanna stop.
For now have these gifs I created from the movie they might contain spoilers. Sorry for the bad quitality I’ve made them on my phone 💀
I have more gifs which I wanna post but Tumblr doesn’t allow me to have more than 10 in one post so for the rest of the gifs I’ll just post will be these ones I have of my most favorite character from this movie
✨HUTCH✨
He is such a goof ball and a sweetheart! Plus I really love his actor Rob James Collier
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