‘Don’t Move’ Ending Explained: Why Does Iris Say “Thank You”?

By Anna Menta

The caller Netflix movie, Don’t Move, features an eye-catching premise: A slayer injects a female pinch a paralyzing drug, rendering her fundamentally motionless. How, exactly, does 1 outrun a slayer if you can’t move? Well, you’re going to person to watch nan movie to find out.

Directed by Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, pinch a screenplay by T.J. Cimfel and David White, Don’t Move was produced by Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi via their accumulation company, Raimi Productions. The movie stars Kelsey Asbille, champion known for her domiciled arsenic Monica Dutton connected nan Paramount bid Yellowstone, and Finn Wittrock, known for his roles successful American Horror Story and The Big Short.

Even though Don’t Move is simply a reasonably straight-forward thriller without overmuch dialogue, you still whitethorn find yourself confused arsenic you watch. Or possibly you’re conscionable impatient to cognize really nan movie ends. Either way, Decider is present to help. Read connected for a breakdown of nan Don’t Move crippled summary and nan Don’t Move ending explained, including why Iris says “thank you.”

Don’t Move crippled summary:

The movie opens pinch our protagonist, Iris (Kelsey Asbille), sneaking retired successful nan early hours of nan greeting to spell connected a hike. She takes a artifact vessel pinch her. She hikes to nan apical of a gangly cliff, wherever location is simply a memorial for a small boy. We presume this is her son, who died falling from nan cliff, and that nan small artifact vessel belonged to him. Iris approaches nan separator of nan cliff, arsenic if to jump off. But she’s interrupted by a chap hiker, who introduces himself arsenic Richard (Finn Wittrock).

Richard manages to talk Iris disconnected nan ledge by telling her astir his dormant girlfriend, Chloe, who died successful a car accident. Richard tells Iris that he and Chloe were arguing successful nan car conscionable earlier nan crash, and that Iris doesn’t want to cognize nan past point Richard said to Chloe. Iris steps distant from nan cliff and hikes down nan upland pinch Richard.

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In nan parking lot, Richard has parked his car weirdly adjacent to Iris’s. She tries to compression by, but Richard abruptly attacks her pinch a taser-disguised-as-an-umbrella. When Iris comes to, her hands and feet are bound by zip ties, and she’s successful Richard’s backseat. Iris manages to free herself utilizing a pocketknife from her pocket. She moreover stabs Richard successful nan limb and makes him clang his car. But Richard’s not worried. As he explains to Iris, he has injected her pinch a supplier that will soon time off her wholly paralyzed for an hour. She has astir 20 minutes earlier she will beryllium wholly paralyzed. First, she will suffer her good centrifugal skills, for illustration gripping and digit movements. Then she will suffer her gross centrifugal skills. Her legs will springiness out. Her breathing will go labored. Finally, she will suffer nan expertise to usage her voice.

Iris flees into nan woods. As she loses activity of her body, she manages to fling herself into a river, wherever she is capable to float away, temporarily escaping Richard. Iris washes up connected a lawn, wherever she is discovered by an aged man (Moray Treadwell) who is mowing nan grass. Though she cannot move aliases speak, she manages to pass pinch nan aged man by blinking erstwhile for “yes” and doubly for “no.” He takes her into his location to telephone nan police. Before he can, Richard knocks connected his door. Richard tries to person nan aged man that he mislaid his wife, who possibly catatonic. The aged man does not spot Richard, and does not uncover wherever Iris is hiding. Richard kills nan aged man, and burns down his house, not alert that Iris is besides inside.

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Iris manages to drawback nan drawstring to set nan blinds, which lets Richard cognize she is still successful nan house. He collects Iris, puts her successful nan aged man’s truck, and drives away. Richard gets a telephone from his woman and girl (because, apparently, he has a woman and daughter!) who pass him they are coming up to nan compartment to sojourn him. Now Richard has to fig retired really to explicate this each to his family.

At a state station, Iris manages to unbuckle her seatbelt. She is incapable to time off nan car earlier Richard comes back, but she is noticed by different woman. Later, erstwhile Richard is trying to tow his car from wherever he collapsed successful nan opening of nan film, we find retired that nan female from nan state position called nan constabulary and reported nan motortruck arsenic suspicious. A bull (played by Daniel Francis) pulls up to mobility Richard arsenic a result. Richard tries to show nan bull that Iris is his alcoholic wife, who collapsed their car while drunk driving. The bull intelligibly does not judge Richard—especially not aft he spots a syringe of nan paralyzing supplier connected nan motortruck dashboard. So Richard kills nan cop.

By now, Iris has regained her sound and immoderate movement. Richard reveals to her that erstwhile his woman Chloe died successful that that car accident, he felt thing for nan first clip successful his life. His past words to Chloe, aft nan crash, were “Thank you.” He spent 2 months incapable to move successful nan hospital, and aft he recovered, he began paralyzing and murdering women successful nan aforesaid way. Iris tries to stab Richard pinch nan drug, but is incapable to move her thumb to push successful nan syringe.

Richard rows a vessel pinch a still-mostly-paralyzed Iris retired onto a lake, intending to termination her and dump nan body. But Iris is capable to muster capable power to onslaught Richard, stabbing him pinch a weapon and shooting him pinch a gun. He falls into nan water. Iris relaxes connected nan boat, reasoning that it’s yet over, and that now she tin hold for nan supplier to deterioration off. Then nan vessel originates to sink. As it turns out, she changeable holes successful nan boat. Uh-oh!

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Don’t Move ending explained:

Iris takes a heavy activity earlier she sinks wholly underwater. For a moment, we deliberation possibly she drowned. But, no—Iris bursts to nan aboveground of nan lake. She has regained capable activity to aquatics to shore. After she does she, she sees Richard, who is dying, besides resistance himself to shore. She towers complete him. Now he’s nan 1 who can’t move! She tells Richard “Thank you,” echoing his past words to Chloe. Then she leaves him location to die. With that, nan movie ends.

What does it mean? Maybe it conscionable intends Iris conscionable isn’t successful nan temper to prevention nan feline who kidnapped her and tried to torture and termination her. Or possibly it intends that Iris is for illustration Richard—unable to consciousness thing until she witnessed his death. Personally, I deliberation it’s a small spot of both. Iris said astatine nan opening of nan movie that she wasn’t capable to outcry aft her boy died. But she cried retired of fearfulness successful nan boat, erstwhile she thought she was going to die. She says “Thank you,” to Richard for helping her consciousness again. She’s not going to prevention him, of course. Nor did she drawback nan execution bug. But astatine slightest now she knows she doesn’t want to die. That’s thing to beryllium thankful for.