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Analysis
The story starts with the repeated scene from the previous Insidious prequel where Dalton and Josh are hypnotized to forget an unpleasant event that just strikes them both. And then changing the scene to Josh taking Dalton getting into college and their distant relationship, along with the fatigue that Josh felt lately and the weird dreams Dalton faced regarding a dark place with a “red door” in the middle.
Rising action in this movie starts when Dalton starts drawing out the unconscious mind of his after an art class and the forgotten trauma leaking out. He regained his ability to astral project, or known as “rogo sukmo” in Javanese, where an individual could travel in the realm of the dead while the body sleeps and starts to wander around the college not knowing the danger of his past traumatic events are haunting him and his father once again after they both regained their memories.
The story starts with the repeated scene from the previous Insidious prequel where Dalton and Josh are hypnotized to forget an unpleasant event that just strikes them both. And then changing the scene to Josh taking Dalton getting into college and their distant relationship, along with the fatigue that Josh felt lately and the weird dreams Dalton faced regarding a dark place with a “red door” in the middle.
Rising action in this movie starts when Dalton starts drawing out the unconscious mind of his after an art class and the forgotten trauma leaking out. He regained his ability to astral project, or known as “rogo sukmo” in Javanese, where an individual could travel in the realm of the dead while the body sleeps and starts to wander around the college not knowing the danger of his past traumatic events are haunting him and his father once again after they both regained their memories.
The climax of the movie reveals that the cycle of this traumatic event is going to repeat itself generation after generation to the Lambert family with the ability to astral project. This time, the vengeful spirit is after Dalton since he failed to bait Josh into “The Further” in the previous prequel. The spirit is also harming Dalton’s only friend in college since she knew about Dalton’’s ability and always accompanied him. The climax also can be seen as Dalton’s regained memories only showed half of the truth where it was shown that his father, Josh once tried to kill him and his family with a terrifying facial structure. These occurrences made their relationship even worse where Dalton once again went to “The Further” to unravel more truth and getting deceived by the vengeful spirit.
The resolution ends with Josh trying to save Dalton by going to “The Further”, as he replaced Dalton with his own life to keep the “red door” shut. Fortunately Dalton has another brilliant idea by coming after his father back and draws the “red door” black, conjuring an end of this haunting event by erasing the door from their lives once and for all. Dalton and Josh’s relationship is getting better along with the other family members.
Just like any other horror movies out there, this movie serves us with a darker tone of color as their setting indulges with mystery and eerie feelings. The toned down color grading that felt like mist or fog even in the morning or afternoon time setting, dark with blue fog and the contrast of vivid red-colored door in “The Further” really gives off the eerie effect.
The camera playing on this movie is spot on. How they sometimes zoom and slow down the pace into some part of the scene like the dark shadow, the “red door”, the toilet or under the bed scene are decent additions of intensity that could increase our heart rate. “What’s the meaning of this shadow?”, “What’s with the red door?”, “Why are you hiding under the bed?” and “What is hidden behind that toilet?”, these questions rose as we saw the zooming in of these scenes.
The movie serves us with the Lambert family not only dealing with spiritual demise, but also psychological burdens. Their past traumas and mental states resurface through their spiritual abilities hence threatening their lives again is pretty decent to be explored. Using the psychoanalytic concepts by Freud’s theory of repression, the author would unravel the unconscious desires, dream symbols and repressed trauma represented in the movie.
Repression is the unconscious mind blocking off unpleasant memories from the conscious mind, hence the memory lost of Dalton and Josh Lambert that starting to resurface through nightmares and dementia We can see how the terrifying experiences of Dalton Lambert’s traumatic childhood bothers him again in the form of nightmares and psychological disturbance that tear apart his relationship with his father, Josh. In Freudian theory, repressed trauma often resurface in unconscious forms like dreams or other psychological terms. In this movie, “The Further” can be represented as the unconscious mind of the main characters, Dalton and Josh Lambert, where those traumas are kept hidden their whole lives.
