Just watched it. Very mediocre. Weird bits:

- no scene with the girl getting in trouble for the party

- dad comes into the house and sees a mess from the party and doesn’t ask what happened

- the weird reopening of the door

- Rory forced to walk home after being humiliated by both his wife (at the dinner) and his mate (who didn’t want him in on the deal) and he’s humble and quiet. He’d be furious.

- the rising for the horse up to the surface

- the wife dancing at the bar

- the wife giving her coat away for free when she clearly needs money and is working as a stable hand

- wife has a meaningful scene with her mom before she leaves and you never see her communicate with her mom again

- wife can confront husband (at new London flat showing, when he asked to move from America, at the fancy restaurant when she drinks from the wine bottle, etc) but says nothing when she realizes he lied about the reason for the move. Doesn’t raise this later when he asks her for money or when weeks pass after 10 days when he said money was coming in.

- we see Rory steal his coworker and friend’s Norwegian fisheries idea but never the fall out from that (no fallout with the friend over that, no fallout with the boss). We just see that somehow Rory and the coworker he stole the idea from are meeting with the Norwegians at the dinner.

- the wife wanted to contact the school immediately about the daughter’s issue with the teacher. This shows she’s protective and assertive. Then why wouldn’t she walk right back into the school after the son said he’d been bullied?


It’s like the characters were developed in some ways (assertive, angry) and then those same traits were abandoned at other times. This goes true for the scene where the door reopened. Clearly that had meaning but it was left undeveloped and the idea was abandoned.

Too much of that in this movie and therefore rotten tomatoes 🍅 is off the mark. 👎

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I liked it. My spouse is kind of a gaslighter in a similar way to Jude Law. I've kind of resigned myself (like his wife). I liked how she called him on his BS, got on with things, but there was still love in the family. I completely did not understand the horse though...did he did up the horse to get some evidence to get his paltry 5K back (with complete disregard to his wife's feeligs?). Did an animal dig up the horse? Was it buried alive? Maybe I nodded off--but I missed the explanation part if there was one.

It wasn’t well explained. My take was that he dug up the horse to have it tested to try to get his money back, hen just tossed it basically on top of the dirt without properly reburying it.

Which leads me to my dislike of the ending, because she seemed so devastated by his treatment of the horse, and the kids seemed so shocked by it, that it was inexplicable to me that they’d all welcome him into their breakfast so calmly and the movie would end on that note.

"...The Nest horse scene explained:

When Allison gets home, Ben shows her the body of Richmond. The horse’s body has become partially unburied, presumably because the hole wasn’t deep enough. Allison tried to repress all this misery and suffering, but it came bubbling back up. She can’t ignore it. Distraught, Allison breaks down crying over the horse. She tries to dig Richmond out of the ground with her bare hands. She is desperate to get back to the time in her life before Richmond—and everything he represents—died. But unfortunately, there is no going back. Allison and her family can only move forward..."
https://decider.com/2024/01/19/the-nest-ending-explained-what-happened-to-the-horse-scene/#

The scene makes even less sense to me in this case, since Allison herself supervised the horse’s burial.

I regret wasting my time watching this!! Stupid ending, can’t believe I watched the whole thing. Kept waiting for something interesting to happen.

Anonymous wrote:So stupid. Should have just bought a horse in England rather than buy in US and transport it.

This movie did a very specific thing I hate - carrying children way too old to be carried. The boy is old enough to have wet dreams but Allison carries him? No.

He didn't have a wet dream. He wet the bed, probably due to the deep anxiety we see that he has.

So stupid. Should have just bought a horse in England rather than buy in US and transport it.

This movie did a very specific thing I hate - carrying children way too old to be carried. The boy is old enough to have wet dreams but Allison carries him? No.

Loved the reception party where the boss discloses the truth- Jude law called begging for a job and relo back there. The exact opposite of what Jude told his wife about the “great opportunity.”

So telling he suddenly visits his mum after decades- who no one knows even exists.

And I assume they were talking about a brother and the enters kids. Another person he doesn’t stay in touch with.

And lots of innuendo that Jude’s father was a total jack@ss, whom the mom still blesses.

Hmm. Finished.

Dont know what to make of it.

Maybe the cab driver talked some sense into him? Maybe no one ever will. He’ll just move on to his next restless con.

Maybe she broke down entirely w the dead horse all over again and failed marriage.

Left things hanging. But no one died! I was ready for that too!

Did this just hit Netflix or something? I remember watching it last year. Had totally forgotten about it though -- it doesn't stick with you. It was a weird movie with a lot of scenes of people staring at things. The stuff with the horse was insane.

Anonymous wrote:what did y’all think of “The Nest” on Netflix, starring Jude Law and Carrie Coon?

It got an extremely high rotten tomatoes score from critics but the audience score was divided; did you find it confusing? What were your takeaways?

In the middle of it. What a mess of a husband.

I liked it. It has to be exhausting being married to a manic guy like that. He sees his big score just around the corner but it’s always out of reach. And I would have hated that house