Fair Play: the director talks about the shocking ending of the Netflix film

Fair Play enters Netflix’s top 10

Published online from Friday 6 October, the film Correctness has already established itself as one of the most watched films on the platform this week. With great debuts and a still very popular genre (the erotic thriller), it should stay in the top 10 for a while.

Directed by Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich, the film directed by Chloe Domont focuses on the love story between Emily and Luke, two colleagues who work in the same hedge fund firm. Both very ambitious, their relationship is put to the test when Emily gets the promotion Luke has dreamed of for years. While they were preparing to get engaged, this event upsets the balance of the couple, highlighting the power mechanisms that operate between them as well as the toxicity of their relationship.

An uncompromising ending

Even though Luke hates that Emily has a higher place in the corporate hierarchy than him, he becomes increasingly threatening towards her. After an argument during which Emily smashes a bottle in his face, Luke crosses the line and rapes his partner in sequence particularly sordid. The young woman, in shock, then decides to lie about their relationship with her superior to permanently remove Luke from her life. Correctness ends with a face-to-face between Emily and Luke during which she stabs him several times with a knife and forces him to apologize, and to admit that “it’s nothing”.

The director explains the ending of the film

In a recent interview with Entertainment weeklyChloe Domont, the director of Correctness, gave an explanation to the film’s shocking ending. She explained that when the script was first written, the story was much more geared towards making Emily seem like the good guy in the story. However, as the rewrites and discussions with Alden Ehrenreich continued, she realized that a more nuanced version of the film it would be more interesting. She said:

When I first wrote the script, it was much more skewed in Emily’s favor. But as I rewrote it, I realized that the more interesting version of the film was a little grayer, which fluctuates to a certain extent.

Domont also highlighted the importance of the bathroom scene, where Luke rapes Emily, as a decisive moment that clearly defines the characters’ positions. The violence of this action pushes Emily towards the film’s disturbing conclusion, where he holds Luke at bay with a knife, forcing him to admit that it’s nothing. Domont notes that this scene is not about revenge, but rather about making this man admit his inferiority.

The director also emphasized that the film is not really about female empowerment, but rather about male fragility.

Finally, Chloe Domont expressed a desire to address power dynamics in relationships, a topic often avoided. She hopes the film’s provocative conclusion will push viewers to think and discuss how this dynamic can be destructive. She concludes by saying:

If you don’t talk about it, you normalize it. And when you normalize it, it creates this poison not only in your body, but also in the relationship and in that bond.

Source: Cine Serie

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