Things heard and seen ending explanation12/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While Catherine isn't familiar with Swedenborg until she moves into her new home, Things Heard & Seen makes a point to mention that she firmly believes in ghosts, despite her husband's mockery. This, of course, is partially due to the fact that they followed the teachings of Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg - who, ironically (in relation to the film's themes), claimed to have the ability to converse with spirits. She finds an old bible dating back to the 1800s tracking the family deaths of the previous homeowners, and Catherine and the audience learn that the previous wives' deaths were deemed " damned" by their husbands. Unbeknownst to Amanda Seyfried's character of Catherine, the women who have lived in her house are actually known to be cursed. Related: Why The Best Story In Stephen King's Night Shift Has No Movie Adaptation The women are presented as genuinely good people, ones that are/were, presumably (if the former two were anything like Catherine), sensitive and deep-feeling individuals who aren't treated with proper human respect, let alone cherished for the rich nature of their souls. They're all tethered by their unfortunate situations in life, specifically the plight and victimization they receive within their marriages. But their connection runs on a spiritual plane as well the ring symbolizes a sort of unfortunate fate that is similarly passed down for generations of wives within the old New York farmhouse. But let me know what you think of Things Heard and Seen.Physically, each of the wives in Things Heard & Seen are connected through an old ring that was unintentionally passed down to each of them. If I’m being completely honest I wanted a more tangible reality sort of ending and the ending we got was much more art style and metaphoric. I do wonder if other people find it scarier than I did and I would love to know your opinion on the ending as well because, to me, it just felt a bit inconsequential and I was expecting more. I would recommend this film as it is quite interesting. I did really enjoy it up until the ending, the story that I had up until that point was really fascinating as things got revealed more and more and you started putting pieces together more it became so much more interesting and definitely a horror that I could see myself enjoying again, it’s just a shame that the ending ruins the rest of the film for me. That doesn’t make this film bad in any way. But the parts beyond the actual main happening of the house just got a bit too artistic and I don’t really know what it was trying to tell me. A bit like the Amityville Horror, history seems to repeat itself, that I got and really enjoyed…and then I was intrigued that the movie continued past the point that I expected it to end. It remind me of the Haunting in Connecticut and other paranormal films like that where a family moved into a new house and the house has ghosts and slowly things unravel between the family and the ghosts. Up until the point of the ending the story was pretty standard. The husband had finally gone off the rails but to have it end like this was very much like ‘ok…what are you trying to tell me here?’ Now this is great symbolism, great foreshadowing, great use of art, but for me personally this storyline didn’t make much sense. There are a lot of religious undertones to this movie as well, with the idea of ghosts and spirits there’s going to be, and there was a painting that consistently came up throughout the film and this painting’s storyline came to an end at the end of the film where it was mimicked in what we were seeing on screen. ![]() There was something about her look that really sent shivers down my spine and if you watch this movie I hope she gives you the same sort of feeling too because it is indescribable. I will mention now the actress that they got to play the original owner of the house, who was one of the ghosts, was absolutely terrifying. I think what did scare me more were the underlying tones that the film was portraying with the family dynamic and what had happened in this house previously. It was weird because I was so ingrained into the storyline, I was really intrigued by this family and what they were going through, and yet any time the movie tried to scare me it didn’t. There were moments of jump scares and moments of horror and slight of hand but actually watching it I rarely jumped or got scared. This movie was really interesting but I think the most interesting part of it was that I didn’t find it scary. Things Heard and Seen follows a small family who move into a new home thanks to the husband getting a new job, however once in this home the family start to experience ghostly happenings and the wife, Catherine, soon realises that her house has a dark secret and her husband may also be harbouring dark secrets too. ![]()
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