So you just watched Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice and you’re sitting there thinking (1) wow, there were a lot of really, really attractive people in that movie and (2) that ending was crazy, right? But maybe you also have some questions. You’ve come to the right place, because we’re here to parse through the final few minutes of the film so that when someone asks you what you thought about the ending of this movie, you can answer with confidence. Let’s get into it.
A quick plot recap:
Frida (Naomi Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat) are whisked away to an island in the middle of nowhere when Frida hits it off with tech billionaire Slater (Channing Tatum) at a charity event they are working as cater waiters. At first, it seems like they’re on a perfect vacation. But soon, the weird things start to pile up, and Jess goes missing. Frida is the only one who notices. She starts to put together that something is very, very wrong on this island.
The unraveling:
Frida isn’t the only one who notices the weirdness. She and fellow partygoer Sarah (Adria Arjona) decide to try to figure it out together. They realize the perfume they’ve been spraying on themselves every morning is actually a drug that is making them forget things and every night, the men of the party have been chasing and sexually assaulting the women. But because they’re being drugged, when the women wake up the following day, they don’t remember anything that happened the night before, so they can’t do anything about it. They are also, like, in the middle of nowhere without their phones and don’t have any way of getting home.
Frida and Sarah realize that the only way they can get off the island is to enlist the help of the other women. So they take the snake venom, which is the antidote to the amnesia drug and give it to the other women.
The big twist and the final scene:
Frida finds a Polaroid of her and Slater together, and she puts it together (and Slater confirms) that she has been here before. That’s why she has a scar on her face. On her previous visit, she fell and hit a rock while trying to escape. Revealing that she’s experienced the same trauma and abuse twice makes a very sinister movie feel even more sinister.
By the time the evening rolls around, the women are ready to fight back. They go along with the dinner and pretend everything is fine, but then it turns into an all-out bloodbath as they try to escape their captors.
Frida and Sarah survive, and when Frida has the opportunity to kill Slater, she doesn’t. Sarah asks her if she knows what she’s doing by keeping him alive. Then the movie flashes forward to the future, and Frida is with Slater, running his company. It’s revealed that she’s been drugging his vape with the same drug he used on her. She kept him alive so that she could basically steal his entire life and fortune. Honestly, good for her! That’s where the movie ends.
