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What’s Real and What’s Not in Never Let Go’s Surreal Ending


An earnest attempt to make the Halle Berry horror movie’s unreal ending make sense.

If there’s a lesson to be learned from director Alexandre Aja’s fork-tongued horror tale, Never Let Go, it’s that one should never come between a boy and his dog — even if you’re Halle Berry. Never Let Go follows Momma (Berry), her two sons Samuel (Anthony B. Jenkins) and Nolan (Percy Daggs IV), and their dog, Coda (played by a very good boy named Brass). Like, I thought when Nolan hugged the ghost of Halle Berry under the trapdoor at the end of the movie and she turned into a snake and then disappeared when he said “I love you,” that meant that the evil had been defeated.

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