Final ‘Fresh’ explained by the hand of its director, Mimi Cave

Like ‘Pam and Tommy’, also with Sebastian Stan in the cast, ‘Fresh’ has come to Disney + Spain to remind us that there is also adult content on the platform. In fact, in the newcomer Mimi Cave’s film there are quite dramatic twists and scenes that we can call gore.

Spoilers for ‘Fresh’ below.

‘Fresh’ tells the story of Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a young woman who is having a hard time meeting people on Tinder. One fine day she meets Steve (Sebastian Stan), a charming golden bachelor who has no social networks, at the supermarket. Although Mollie (Jojo T. Gibbs), Noa’s best friend, is suspicious, she is not hesitant to make an escapade with him. Of course, she goes wrong and after being drugged in the first glass of wine, Noa finds herself trapped in a basement by Steve. The surgeon is actually a sadistic cannibal who is dedicated to keeping several women alive in his basement while he rips off meat that he sells to the highest bidder.

Noa, then, will make the risky decision to conquer Steve and gain his trust until she tries to rebel against him and free the other imprisoned women, including a Mollie who tragically followed her trail. In the end we can understand that they succeed. Steve and his wife end up dead and the three protagonists alive, although we don’t see much else and the closing is quite sharp, closing the image in a mobile chat reminding us again that this, in addition to a horror film, was a parody of the world of current love dates. Nevertheless, DigitalSpy He has spoken with the director, Mimi Cave, to comment on the main doubts and twists that this bloody and very moving outcome holds for us. We have already talked about Paul, the waiter whose decision magnifies all of ‘Fresh’.

Who does Steve sell human meat to?

In the post-credits scene, or rather shortly after this begins, we see several diners around a pile of meat, which has triggered theories about a possible sequel or a shared universe around this society of cannibals.

I think in many ways a lot of things in this movie are giant symbols or metaphors and also serve as a sense of reality, so it’s a very strange world to play in. There is a feeling that there are people who are the 1%, or the 1% of the 1%, and they can ask, and get crazy things, and nobody ever says anything. People who do horrible things and have a lot of wealth and ability to move in the world in a way that they don’t get caught. I think that was something we wanted to touch on a little bit without getting too into it, and really stay in the story between Steve and Noa.

Cave’s notion about the most powerful people on the planet having to look for extreme things to entertain themselves or enjoy also reminds us of the explanation behind ‘The Squid Game’, with whose masked millionaires it bears a lot of resemblance.

The bloody final sequence of ‘Fresh’

The final sequence where the three women confront Steve is really chaotic and you never really know when it’s going to end or where it’s going. Cave herself explains her intentions behind this sensation.

The ending was always really quick and chaotic because that’s how it would really be, and I wanted it to feel like it would be in real life in terms of action scenes. When they start fighting in the kitchen, I cut out all the music in the first half of that scene. I just wanted them to be heard, felt and seen, that they are real women and not action heroes. They are just trying to save themselves and each other. They were always going to be victorious, but the way they did it always changed. Logistically we were going back and forth on different things, in terms of different characters coming in and out, and who was going to ultimately save the day. We were constantly trying to get the right balance of that.

‘Fresh’ ending explained What’s behind the ending phrase?

‘Fresh’ ends with an ironic ending. Instead of showing us the protagonists completely safe, the police arriving at the scene or them, together, some time later, what we have is the closure of a gag. When Noa was telling Mollie about Steve, her friend’s default thought was “he’s probably married.” That phrase, from Noa realizing that in addition to all the cannibalism and such, Steve was married comes full circle.

Mollie says, ‘He’s probably married,’ and that line wasn’t in the script. We added that to mention later, so you can laugh and remember that scene when they were all together, innocent in the park, and nothing had happened to them. Their delivery (from the actresses) was excellent at that and it was a really hard scene to pull off because we were trying to finish the movie and there’s so much going on. In many ways, what’s so great about the tone of the film is that there’s a lightness to these moments. When you’re in these crazy times, sometimes you need to make a joke and sometimes you need to laugh just to deal with the trauma of what’s going on.

‘Fresh’ is available on Disney + Spain, although if you have read this article we hope you have already seen it.