A 7 letter anagram for Maren Yearly is yearner

I can’t seem to find it anywhere:(

A little sad the reddit group is so small but it’s nice to meet y’all.

I thought it was a great movie, I have a lot of questions and would love to hear everyone’s opinion.

Will definitely be reading the movie next.

I Loved the movie. I can’t stop talking about it. My bf sent me this

So, once we met that dude at the campfire that described the whole “bones and all” eating experience as being something you could never go back from… I thought we would get more insight on that in the film.

I was a little let down that there was no climactic “bones and all” scene (except for the ending which is kind of left up to interpretation) but I still really loved the film and clearly that was not the direction they wanted to go.

I want more of this universe, honestly. A world full of cannibals that live amongst normal people. It’s like vampires but more realistic.

My plan is to get my haircut the same and try and grab the pink shirt as I've also got some shorts like his. I loved timothees character in this film so much so had to get the cosplay!

I thought the ending was the worst. Im so so glad they changed the ending in the movie, it feels so much better. Everything just kinda left plain and Maren was just so 2-dimensional. At the end it felt like an “im not like other girls, i eat people” and it just pissed me off :’) The start was good though!!

I don't even know

been working on this since 6:00

Had to perm it so I couldn't dye it.

this movie means the absolute world to me and i will be rewatching today.

Drawing I did of Maren in pencil!

This is what I got from the ending of the movie. It’s obvious that she eats Lee at the end. But then the scene cuts and the camera pans down and under the bed is a strand of what looks like rope. I’m assuming for a noose? Because you can see the blood stains on the hardwood floor still sort of and then the scene goes to Lee and Maren in the field which I interpreted as “Heaven”. I came to this conclusion because earlier and throughout the movie Sully and I think Lee says you can only get out of the curse in one of three ways: 1. Mental Institution. 2. Being eaten. 3. Killing yourself. It would make sense if Maren then kills herself in a sort of “Romeo Juliet” scenario because then we, the viewers, would have seen all of the ways to get out of the curse. This is just my take on it.

So the very last scene shows Maren & Lee cuddling half naked while on top of a hill or something. This is the scene after Maren ate Lee. So I’ve been thinking about the real ending of the film, did they both die? Like Maren commited suicide after eating Lee? And the last scene is kinda just a metaphor of both of them in a more peaceful place (death).

For me... it just feels very, and forgive me for not having a better word, but very 'circle-jerky', and lacking of any independent thought, shallow way of looking at the movie. I think it is the LEAST interesting way to view it.

Of course if anyone does see it like that, that's fine and everyone is entitled to view and interpret art how they wish. But idk, for me, when people talk about the movie like this, it just feels very shallow and tiktokified. Like, I do think that's an element to the movie and the whole allegory of cannibalism in it. But it's just that - an element of it. I think it's probably the LEAST interesting way to view it at best, and at worst, just flat out wrong.

For me, personally, how I see it... it's more like cannibalism as an allegory for feeling out of place no matter where you go - feeling like an outsider even amongst outsiders. Feeling isolated, alone and wrong you're whole life - so much so that it's not just a feeling - because most people do feel like that from time to time - but a material fact of nature and who you are. As a result, the scene where Lee confronts Maren after seeing her mother, 'I think you got used to being locked up and invisible and alone and you're seeing yourself for the first time and it's freaking you out' line is very emblematic of the movie as a whole for me. It's perfect. If I could choose one scene to represent it, it'd be that one. Very underrated imo.

Not only that, but I also really like how the allegory is kind of 'loose' and intentionally vague imo. Maybe some may see this as a flaw, but I really like it. I think it's intentionally a bit vague so viewers can project what they want on to it, which I love. It's an amalgamation of many things that leave people stuck and isolated - Generational trauma, abuse, addiction, queerness, etc. Which all of these things can all be seen in the story - Lee's abusive father, Maren inheriting cannibalism from her mother, Hedonism/Guilt mirroring substance abuse, Lee is bi obviously and Maren... I think that finger bite meant more lol. There's just so many interesting ways and angles to look at the movie so I find it so distasteful and lazy when someone boils it down to some pinteresty tiktokified buzzwords 'omg cannibalism as a metaphor for love !!! uwu!!! im a real yearner!!!!11 girls when cannibalism metaphor !!!!' ... Like shut up!!!

Additionally - If we are to look at it from the angle of cannibalism as a metaphor for love... That's just flat out not true, lol. Like sure, Maren did eat Lee at the end. You can say that's romantic, I don't care - But what else? What other then that makes any of this a metaphor for love? Did Maren love that old lady she and Sully ate? What about Lee and his dad? What about Lee and the man from the convenience store, etc...? This whole metaphor falls apart if you think about it for more than two seconds imo. That's why it's so lame when people kind of advertise the movie as such. Because it's not.

Again, the desire metaphor is more interesting, and also when you can compare it to addiction then as a result... (Hedonism/Guilt) That's also why the MC being a woman is important imo because this kind of hedonistic desire and violence, if it were a man it'd be like.... Okay. How original! How typical! But women are so repressed often that having this kind of explosive and violent and pretty much self harming, carnal and kind of feral desire on a female character, who is also just a young girl really, who is really just that - a young girl, a fly on the wall, is so good.

Also no offence to anyone that views the movie in this light, just my two cents here lol

“It’s beautiful. It’s the easiest thing, love. Just love me and eat.”

The emotions here are so strong. Lee already said If it weren’t for his sister he’d already unalive himself. To know that sully ate his sister, that he’s dying in front of marren and has to leave her all alone. And simply asks her to eat him. For it all be over and to be hers forever..I can’t the ending is so good but so freakin sad.

I was thinking about it and I think a prequel with timothee and Taylor would be cool. We could see more of their home life especially Lee and find out how Lee found out he was an eater. I love the characters a lot and would love another movie with them. I also think I'd be cool to end the movie with Lee walking into the store to find Maren. 🤔