Not so rare isn't it?

ryaniskira · 2018-08-01T10:09:05+00:00

It's funny to see women getting mad at us for pumping and dumping yet they do it to an even worse degree. We're at least up front about it, they'll lie to you until they finally dump you.

TheDevilsAdvokaat · 2018-08-01T12:07:25+00:00

I wonder if she got him to pay off her debts first.

captainsaveahoe69 · 2018-08-01T10:32:20+00:00

People are as loyal as their options

kayfab · 2018-08-01T10:30:01+00:00

CAUGHT does not lend itself to my customary review style so this review will be a little ad hoc.

The set up for the movie is relatively straightforward: there is a family living in a house on or near the Kintry Moors in England in 1972. There's a father and mother, Andrew and Julie, respectively, a 6 or 7-year-old boy and an infant girl. Andrew and Julie are investigative reporters and they are currently poking around a mysterious military base being set up on the moor not far from their home.

A very well dressed but EXTREMELY peculiar couple, who call themselves Mr. and Mrs. Blair, suddenly show up on their doorstep. As viewers, the behavior of the Blairs is so peculiar we quickly come to the conclusion that the "Blairs" are aliens disguised as humans. This suspicion is confirmed nearly immediately and becomes incontrovertible as the movie progresses.

At the time of this writing, there's a lot of hate coming from the reviewers on IMDb, and I'd have to say that most of it is deserved. It's as if the director went out of his way to irritate his audience. Audiences respond negatively when a movie sets up mysteries that are left unresolved by the end of the movie. To make matters worse, it's unclear whether the unresolved mysteries are the result of a low-budget, artistic "vision", or just really inept directing.

Still, at the risk of flying in the face of what is currently universal derision, there were some redeemable elements of CAUGHT, at least in my own opinion, although I did have to indulge in a lot of potentially (and sometimes certainly) unwarranted speculation about what's actually going on in the picture. So much of the narrative is vague and ill-defined one has to indulge in speculation to make any sense of CAUGHT. So here are my potentially unwarranted speculations.

In the very first scene, where we first see the Blairs walking towards their encounter with Andrew and Julie, they move with perfect synchronicity. Walking, starting, stopping, head movements and etc. all in perfect unison. Clearly they they are "connected" in some way not in visible evidence (telepathy?). This suggests to me why the Blairs ability to communicate is so poor and their speech habits so peculiar. If you're an alien accustomed to telepathic communication, how difficult and unnatural must verbal communication seem?

Additionally, as we humans would tend to anthropomorphize aliens, what sort of anthropomorphizing might aliens fall into with respect to humans? How would that affect their perspectives and assumptions when trying to communicate?

The behavior of the Blairs suggests that Mr. Blair is of some sort of higher or managerial "rank" than the female, while Mrs. Blair has a decided tendency toward violence and hostility, like an attack dog. Mr. Blair seems rational, curious and sincerely desirous of communication, although focused on his objective. Mrs. Blair is hostile, murderous, and decidedly un-curious.

The focus of the Blairs is apparently tied to the fact that Andrew took some photographs of the mysterious military installation and in that process accidentally "caught" something having to do with these aliens. None of this is satisfactorily explained in CAUGHT. SOMETHING is clear in a photograph (as we are led to believe), and is the source of the conflict with the Blairs, but we never get to see what's in the photograph nor is it ever described. As viewers, all we can do is throw tons of speculation at the entire situation. Are the aliens there because of the military activity or is it the other way around? If the military is there because of the alien activity, why would the Blairs be particularly interested in what Julie and Andrew know about it? Why wouldn't the director let us see what was in the picture? Bad direction or the inability to create the necessary artwork to depict the event?

The second unresolved issue in CAUGHT is the fact that the 6 or 7-year-old boy is attempting to escape with the baby at the end of the movie and the movie just ends without us knowing for certain what happens to the boy and the baby. In my opinion, it's clear that they are caught and killed. Literally NOTHING that Andrew or Julie tried (in their exceedingly irritating half assed, incompetent and uncommitted way) ever worked at all. Not even a little bit. Why would the boy's lame escape attempt suddenly work? And the boy demonstrated an inability to follow parental commands AT ALL (run and escape with your sister). The Blairs showed no hesitancy to kill Andrew and Julie and did so. The boy, rather than doing his best and running with the infant, just sort of wandered away. We also catch half a glance of something considerably larger than the boy and in close proximity to him right before the end of the movie. So it is clear to me that the boy and the baby were killed just as the parents were.

Lastly, anecdotally, I should like to point out something non-British viewers might possibly miss. In England, depending upon the locale, one hears a lot of fox screams. If you're unaccustomed to it, and you're walking around in rural England in the dark and you hear it, it can make you soil your pants. It is a seriously creepy sound. (You can find examples of them on YouTube...) If you watch any British crime dramas like FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES, you often hear them in the background. As an American, you wonder what the hell that sound is you keep hearing and why nobody on screen is reacting to it at all. For Brits, it's no more noticeable or reason for comment than chirping birds.

Well, as it happens, fox screams are pretty much the same sounds that the aliens make, or at least the violent ones like Mrs. Blair. This is intended as a scarey punch line at the end of the movie as we realize that the recent "fox noises" that the family has been hearing recently has actually been aliens calling to each other as they've been observing the family leading up to the horrific final encounter. For a Brit, I'm guessing that would be a pretty creepy tie-in to a common British sound.

mikemilligankcmafia · 2018-08-01T11:06:55+00:00

Lmfao the accuracy over 9000

thecorgisleeps · 2018-08-01T12:13:52+00:00

Is that actually same girl in the 2014 pic?

DecksDark99 · 2018-08-01T11:23:20+00:00

I’m having a hard time believing the fat girl is the same girl as the pic in red dress

Shdwfx__ · 2018-08-01T13:39:35+00:00

Yep, seen it happen multiple times.

300 pound whale dating a 100 pound (handsome) guy. 10 years into the relationship the whale decides to do something about it and gets a stomac surgery. A year later, she dumps him because she's getting a lot of attention suddenly ...

3 different couples, same story.

ovrload · 2018-08-01T10:50:10+00:00

That isn’t chad. But yeah he’s more attractive than the dork. The other dudes like a 5 and the so called “chad” is a 6.5 at best

drizztdourden420 · 2018-08-01T14:27:00+00:00

Well, here's to hoping she just created another MGTOW.

Zefirez · 2018-08-01T15:18:56+00:00

I'm not even sure if "Chad" is not the same guy on the left. Ditch the nerdy glasses, grab shades and they look very similar. Similar dress code (shirt and elegant pants). similar hairstyle (short), similar silhuette...

2018-08-01T17:38:52+00:00

Cucks gonna cuck. Simps gonna simp

nofilmynofucky · 2018-08-01T18:31:57+00:00

holy fuck

I shit you not, when that first pic originally surfaced reddit had a collective orgasm over it, I guess cos it was 'proof' the ugly losers could still get hot girls. I was massively downvoted for suggesting that she'd leave him as soon as she realized how much her options had improved

NolanKnowstheTruth · 2018-08-02T00:17:51+00:00

Once a fatty, always a fatty....there's just a pause button sometimes.

DrFeelFantastic · 2018-08-01T10:02:06+00:00

I'd rather have the chubby teenage version than the skinny 25 year old version to be honest.

cafeorange · 2018-08-01T10:30:53+00:00

Im Surpirsed !.......not

fuzzyjames123 · 2018-08-01T13:29:06+00:00

People change, he just stayed the same and she wanted better

StoneTempleFlyboy · 2018-08-01T14:15:37+00:00

All those insatiable hungry hungry hippo fat cells are still there just waiting to pounch on some guns of ice cream. She'll be hitting up Poindexter again in a few years.

Freenorthman · 2018-08-01T19:11:56+00:00

Can you Blame her ? I wouldnt play minor league if i can Go for the superbowl

Itisforsexy · 2018-08-01T19:44:20+00:00

2014 to 2018 - The "Chad" is now an above average looking dude, objectively. However he'd probably get no matches on Tinder. He isn't 6'5 with an 8 pack & 17 inch arms.

andrewscool101 · 2018-08-01T12:12:07+00:00

I remember seeing the pic on the left years ago. Also, is it the same woman? I can’t tell.

EffinWhiteMale · 2018-08-01T15:24:47+00:00

Should've let the bitch stay fat...

cobaltcolander · 2018-08-01T15:35:37+00:00

Who is the THOT?

Secret_Combo · 2018-08-01T17:34:44+00:00

You can tell she only valued herself in the SVM because she says he deserves some arm candy. I'm sure she thought she "paid her dues" to the old boyfriend for a few months as a "thank you", but the day she saw herself in the mirror as an attractive woman, she was already looking for her chad.

blaizken_420 · 2018-08-01T19:42:13+00:00

Who are they?

Yggalf · 2018-08-01T23:26:10+00:00

Could it be thats the same guy? If so thats a Unicorn.

iManZul · 2018-08-02T01:11:06+00:00

is it really the same thot?

ImpressiveDig · 2018-08-02T03:48:57+00:00

if hypergamy was a before and after photo, oh man this reeks of it

sanjeevpalakala · 2018-08-01T10:10:04+00:00

Right is a different woman. Doesn’t mean the practice doesn’t happen.

Title	Not so rare isn't it?
Author	TheJoestarDescendant
Upvotes	416
Comments	83
Date	August 1, 2018 9:47 AM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MGTOW
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