I am completely shocked that the character of this big star in the monkey has not died

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the monkey (2025)

I was absolutely certain that a supportive character was condemned to do so The monkeyBut Stephen King’s adaptation completely undermined my expectations. Oz perkins’ The monkey is based on Stephen King’s short story of the same name from the 1984 collection Skeletal teamBut only loosely. The monkey Changes King’s history of a cursed toy into a story of sibling rivality that is facilitated by the Titular Killer toy. Theo James plays both Hal and Bill Shelburne, a few twins who inherit a toy monkey from her absent father.

The boys will soon find out that every time someone turns the monkey’s key, a person dies in a terrible, strange accident. After your babysitter is in one of The monkeyHal tries to use the bloodiest scenes to kill the monkey to kill his bullying brother Bill. Instead, the toy kills her beloved mother Lois and after her uncle Chip died in an absurdly unlikely hunting accident, the boys throw the toys down a fountain. Years later, The monkey‘S Twist Ending shows that this is not the end of the history of the toy.

Elijah Woods Ted seemed to be doomed to fail in the monkey

Wood’s annoying support character was unbearable

Bill tried to discover the monkey for 25 years, while Hal spent his life to distance himself from others to avoid them. This means that HAL is alienated by his youthful son Petey, who grew up by Hals earlier love interest and her new partner Ted. Elijah Wood’s unbearable replacement father, Ted, is a self -help author and a blatant hypocrite who preaches the value of paternity, but in the minute in which he sees him. Since Ted is incredibly poisonous in her only common scene, I assumed that he was doomed to fail.

As soon as the death of Aunt Idas Bill and Hal relies on a collision course, Ted is completely forgotten. Since then, this has been a shock for me, from the challenge from HAL to an arm wrestling competition to cryptically claimed that he took Hal’s “PerformanceTed is a strange terrible guy from him during his short screen time. With reflection, however, I am impressed how much smarter this subversive misconduct was. It would be easy to make Wood’s character of the villain of The monkey Since he embodies all the uncertainties of HalAnd he is an obviously hideous person.

The monkey that dropped Ted’s action was a better choice

This subversive step forced the story of concentrating on Hal and Petey

However, Bill ensures a more convincing villain in The monkeyThe latter half. Bill is a better film for HAL, since both men enabled a common traumatic incident from their childhood to define their adult life’s airways in very different ways. The physical similarity of Bill and Hal underlines the surprising overlap between their apparently opposite prospects.

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Both Bill and Hal think that you can control the moods of fate if you follow the right approach for the monkey, but both are deceived. Keep death in The monkeyThe end enables him to tacitly accept that he has no way to decide who lives or dies, and he never did it. If Woods Ted were the villain of the film, it would be The monkey would become a simpler story about paternity, masculinity and empowerment more than this surreal, strange life -affirmative story about the acceptance of the absurdity of existence.

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The monkey

6/10

Publication date

February 19, 2025

Duration

98 minutes

director

Osgood Perkins

writer

Osgood Perkins

Producer

John Rickard, Natalia Safran, Ali Jazayeri, Chris Ferguson, Fred Berger, Giuliana Bertzuzzi, James Wan, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, John Friedberg