‘Blink Twice’ Ending Explained: What Happens in Zoe Kravitz’s Movie?

Phones are quickly handed over and Frida loses track of the days as she enters a cycle of drinking, smoking, drugs and partying with Slater and his band.

It doesn’t take long before Frida begins to notice unsettling peculiarities, such as unexplained dirt under her fingernails and a maid who kills the island’s venomous snakes.

Once Frida pieces together the sinister things that are really happening on the island, the action starts to pick up.

Here’s a breakdown of the film’s climax and satisfying ending.

Frida and Sarah team up to take down Slater and the men who abused and exploited women.

Slater is initially introduced as a charming billionaire who credits therapy with turning his life around. But his sadistic behavior becomes clearer later in the film.

After Jess is bitten by a viper one night, she decides she’s had enough of the island. But Frida doesn’t feel like leaving because, for the first time in her life, she’s not invisible. The next day, Frida wakes up and does her typical routine: spraying herself with a perfume made from a red desire flower found only on the island, she dresses in the same white outfit and joins the rest of the group for another day of relaxation.

When a maid gives Frida a green liquid to drink that is actually snake venom, she begins to regain fragments of her memories. Another guest on the island named Sarah (Adria Arjona) then confides in Frida and says that she’s having fun, but also has a strange feeling that something is wrong – especially considering that none of the women, apart from by Frida, has no memory of Jess, who disappeared without. explanation.

Frida and Sarah realize that the perfume erases the women’s memories and that the snake venom is the key to the memory. To help the other women regain their memories without arousing suspicion, Frida and Sarah give them shots of tequila mixed with venom. Slater’s scatterbrained assistant Stacey (Geena Davis) also takes venomous photos.

Frida regains more memories and learns that Jess was killed by the men because the snake bite prevented her from forgetting. Furthermore, Frida and the other women were subjected to varying degrees of sexual violence by Slater and the other men every night.

In another flashback, Slater’s trauma therapist Rich (Kyle MacLachlan), who specializes in repressed memories, marvels at how Frida won’t remember any of the horrible things that happened. The more traumatic the experience, the less Frida remembers, Slater tells her.

Back in the day, Slater sees the women acting strange at dinner, so Frida and Sarah start a dance party to create a distraction. The action picks up immediately as Camilla (Liz Caribe) and Heather (Trew Mullen) regain their memories.

Camilla stabs Tom (Haley Joel Osment) to death and Heather stabs Vic (Christian Slater) in the head with a chessboard. Stan (Cris Costa), Slater’s security guard, shoots Heather and chases Frida into the woods. Just as Stan is about to shoot Frida, Sarah hits him in the head with a massive rock, killing him. Slater then kills Camilla by stomping on her neck.

Stacey, meanwhile, is upset that Frida made her remember and tries to kill her. Frida stabs Stacey to death in self-defense, and Sarah shoots Cody (Simon Rex) dead.

Among Slater’s photo collection of past guests, Frida finds an old Polaroid of herself with a completely different haircut. This reveals that she was already on his island, but those memories were erased.

Frida and Sarah then head to Slater’s compound – where he’s barricaded himself, Vic and Lucas (Levon Hawke) inside – armed with a knife and a gun. When Frida enters the building, Sarah shoots Lucas from a distance, killing him instantly.

While fighting Slater, Frida regains several memories, revealing that she received the scar on one side of her face (which Slater had previously asked her about) after an incident in the woods with Slater during her previous visit to the island.

Slater ties up Frida and tells her that there is no forgiveness, only forgetting – and Frida is amazing at forgetting, as she forgot the island completely after her last visit. He also says that the world would be a better place if people were freed from remembering things.

Slater also suggests that he and his sister were molested by an older man. This is probably the traumatic event that happened to him before his 10th birthday and caused him to have few memories of that time, as he mentions to Frida earlier in the film.

Slater is interrupted by Sarah entering the compound, and he runs after her, leaving Frida on the floor.

Slater drags Sarah into the room where Frida, who freed herself using a shard of glass, is holding the knife. Slater takes the knife and Frida thinks he’s going to kill her, but he says he won’t because she’s his best friend.

As Slater is about to cut Sarah’s throat, he takes a hit from his vape pen and becomes suddenly disoriented. It was revealed that when Frida broke free from the ropes, she also laced the ship with the memory erasing perfume she used on the women.

Slater trips and falls, knocking over some of the candles and causing a fire to spread. Before the complex is fully engulfed in flames, presumably finishing off a badly injured Vic, Frida and Sarah get Slater out.

“I need a vacation,” Frida tells Sarah.

Frida finally gets what she wants.

Frida, Sarah and Slater are the only survivors of the trip. It is not clear what exactly happened after the big fight, but Frida’s life changed drastically and she successfully climbed the social ladder.

The film ends with another King-Tech gala, probably next year.

At the event, Rich approaches Slater and asks if they can continue their discussion. But Slater seems confused by what the man is referring to. Frida, who is now married to Slater and has a longer haircut, steps in and tells the doctor that they will be in Beijing next week so he won’t be available.

Frida then gives Slater his vape liquid, which most likely contains the memory-wiping substance desideria, and tells him to eat his steak. Her comment is a callback to earlier in the film, during the first dinner on the island, when Slater told Frida that she doesn’t eat red meat and she chose not to either in solidarity with him.

Now, their dynamic has been reversed; it is assumed that Frida regularly alters Slater’s memories via his vape liquid and controls him.

Then a man on stage refers to her as Frida King, the CEO of King-Tech. Everyone at the gala cheers for her, and the film ends with Frida getting her champagne glass filled by a cocktail waitress.

The final sequence drives home the film’s exploration of power and the dynamic between men and women.

The final scene is a full-circle moment for Frida, who is no longer invisible. Instead, she is in a position of power and is not subject to a man.

“I wanted to see a story that explored what could happen if women stopped playing by the rules,” Kravitz wrote in a statement included in the production notes for “Blink Twice.”

Kravitz, who grew up in Hollywood thanks to her parents Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, said she saw, experienced and heard about things that inspired her to make a film about the dynamic between men and women. Kravitz added that the film is not about a specific person.

“It’s about people“, she wrote. “Women are told to smile, every day, all the time. We are expected to “forget” moments of discomfort, terror and abuse and continue to pretend we are having fun. They expect us to play the game.”

The film ends on a well-deserved note for Frida, who is in complete control and makes all the decisions, while Slater has become her headless puppet.

“This is not an empowerment story,” Kravitz said. “This is a story about power.”

“Blink Twice” is now in theaters.