The Vanishing: A Tale of Two Movies

 

After watching this movie again, I realized how smart the movie is. Without spoiling anything (in case you've never seen it and if so, you should) the movie leaves clues that exaplain the final act but they don't spell it out for you, nor do they explain everything in the end. 

It's a perfect movie, that's entertaining and engaging the entire way through!

But this time I got to see it's predecessor from 5 years earlier. This (French?) film was copied from the US version and presents just about the same story except the endings are different. 

One of these is a happy ending and the other, tragic. I like the happy ending better because I feel like the pycho involved in the film SHOULD NOT get away with it all. It just wouldn't feel right. BUT, the ending was very interesting to see as that's really the only seperation of storylines between both films. 

You can catch the foreign film on YouTube, as for the 1993 version, I'm sure it's streaming somewhere. Everything is, these days. 

Have a good weekend folks!