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3 days ago
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What Happens In The End Of Echo Valley? The Echo Valley Ending, And THAT Shocking Death, Explained.
We just saw Julianne Moore nurture birds in , but in , she's training horses. The Apple TV movie sees her character Kate reunite with her daughter Claire (Sydney Sweeney) when Claire shows up at her then reappears covered in blood. That is far from the craziest thing that happens in this flick — and viewers are still talking about the ending. The real catalyst of all the drama in Echo Valley happens in two parts: Claire's drug dealer Jackie showing up to the farm, and Claire returning home covered in blood. Claire claims she killed her boyfriend Ryan, and Kate takes care of everything, including getting rid of the body. "Having Julianne as my scene partner was everything and more," Sydney Sweeney tells Fox 5 Atlanta. "I felt so safe, and I wanted to explore even deeper versions of who Claire able to get crazy and emotional and chaotic." Well, things get even more chaotic when Kate finds Claire and Ryan together, and realizes she was tricked into covering up a fentanyl overdose that could lead back to Jackie. The dealer drugs Kate and poses as a farmhand as he gets her to agree to burn her barn down for insurance money. But when the police show up and find Greg's body in the farmhouse, we realize that Kate really does take care of everything! Along with her friend Jessie, Kate grabbed Greg's body from the lake, framing Jackie for the overdose and the fire. Despite the fact Jackie takes the fall, actor Domhnall Gleeson loved seeing the story play out. 'There's something kind of amazing about the notion of underestimating someone and then the price you can pay for that," he USA Today. And in the final moments of the Echo Valley ending, Kate's dog wakes her up in the middle of the night. She sees Claire sitting on the porch and the mother and daughter just stare at each other. Are they on good terms now? 'I don't have a clue,' Domhnall admits. 'We don't know, and that's what makes it meaningful. We all hoped for one thing, and we worry it'll be the other. And that's the same as being alive. We're all hoping things will go a certain way and are worried it won't.' "That's a question for the audience, isn't it?" Julianne Moore Entertainment Weekly. "That's where the movie ends. The movie ends with, 'And here's a knock on the door.' I know what my answer is, but a lot of people who've seen the movie have said different things." Everyone will have a different reaction to that final scene, but Julianne Moore can't help but admit she'd take a step toward forgiveness. "I would open the door and let her in," she continues. "A lot of people have different relationships to that kind of thing. But I feel like she's forever and ever connected to this daughter." What did you think of the ending? Let us know on !
Straits Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
At The Movies: Illogical twists in Echo Valley, David Cronenberg's daughter debuts with Humane
At The Movies: Illogical twists in Echo Valley, David Cronenberg's daughter debuts with Humane Echo Valley (M18) 104 minutes, streaming on Apple TV+ ★★☆☆☆ The story: Kate (Julianne Moore) is a solitary divorcee running a horse ranch in Echo Valley in America's rural Pennsylvania, where her prodigal daughter Claire (Sydney Sweeney) shows up hysterical late one night with a dead body in her car. She has, she claims, bashed in her boyfriend's (Edmund Donovan) head by accident during a spat. How far will a parent go to protect her child? To answer the poser in the Apple TV+ thriller Echo Valley, Kate, without hesitation, goes to the local lake and disposes of the corpse. A drug addict, Claire has furthermore unwittingly tossed out US$10,000 worth of heroin belonging to a dealer (Domhnall Gleeson) among her boyfriend's possessions. Kate, who cannot even afford her roof repair, has to somehow repay him or he will kill them both. The depressed middle-ager, once married to a lawyer (Kyle MacLachlan), is mourning the death of her wife in a tragic accident. She cannot risk losing Claire too. And so, it is one bad decision after another. The same can be said of the story from Mare Of Easttown (2021) series creator Brad Ingelsby, directed by Bafta-winning British film-maker Michael Pearce of Beast (2017). Beyond plot quirks such as Kate's bisexuality that does nothing to deepen her character, this study on unconditional maternal love takes illogical twists into a third-act crime melodrama once the dealer blackmails her for the murder. He is a menacing villain. But the central relationship getting sidelined is between the exasperatingly acquiescent Kate and Sweeney's shrill, manipulative Claire, whose emotional betrayal is the most grievous violence. Hot take: Moore and Sweeney are an intense double act in a movie that does not know what to do with them nor what it wants to be. Humane (NC16) 93 minutes, streaming on Max ★★★☆☆ (From left) Jay Baruchel, Alanna Bale, Sebastian Chacon, Sirena Gulamgaus and Emily Hampshire in Humane. PHOTO: MAX The story: Mere months after an ecological collapse, world leaders are mandating euthanasia either voluntary or by conscription as a means to reduce the population. Those contributing to the planet-saving effort are valorised as 'heroes', and their next-of-kin are rewarded with a substantial payout. Humane is directed by Canadian photographer Caitlin Cronenberg. Her dad, Canadian auteur David Cronenberg, is the progenitor of body-horror cinema, and her brother is film-maker Brandon Cronenberg of Infinity Pool (2023) and Antiviral (2012). Nonetheless, her dystopian fable has no bodily mutations. The characters, just the way they are, are the horror in their greed, duplicity and selfishness. A family dinner in a vaguely North American suburb implodes into a violent fight for survival when the wealthy patriarch's (Peter Gallagher) plan to join the suicide programme goes awry. A creepily cheery Department of Citizen Strategy representative (Enrico Colantoni) arrives at the manor for the appointed 'cadaver procurement', and the four adult children have two hours to decide whom among themselves to sacrifice before the armed agents do the choosing for them. The eldest (Jay Baruchel), an anthropologist, is a government propagandist. One sister (Emily Hampshire) is a snippy pharmaceutical executive under investigation for fraud. Another is a talentless actress (Alanna Bale) and the adopted sibling (Sebastian Chacon) is a recovering addict piano virtuoso. Inside the house over a single night, they turn against one another with every sharp instrument available. This is Caitlin Cronenberg's feature debut. It shows in the lack of both dramatic depth and visual flair, but the sociopolitical satire on class and privilege is blackly comic. Hot take: The Cronenberg family business continues to make a killing. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
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3 days ago
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The internet has a wild obsession with Sydney Sweeney's body. So she got in on the joke.
What's more shocking: That an A-list celebrity made soap with her bathwater, or that the soap is now re-selling for thousands of dollars online? The internet is divided over a recent marketing gimmick involving Sydney Sweeney, who, in collaboration with the men's personal care company Dr. Squatch, authorized the creation and sale of bars of soap containing, among other things, her bathwater. Yes, this is real. In fact, the actress told E! News at the "Echo Valley" premiere earlier this month it was actually her idea. "I think that's it's more fun to see everybody else talk about it," Sweeney said, when asked for her reaction to the soap. Dr. Squatch made 5,000 bars of the soap − dubbed Sydney's Bathwater Bliss − and sold them online for $8 each. They quickly sold out, and now those bars are getting re-sold for much, much more on eBay. Some are priced as high as $1,600. The soap clearly has its fans, but not everyone's amused by it. "Sad day for humanity," one person wrote on Instagram. "Everyone who bought this is an absolute vile form of human," wrote another. Sweeney clearly wanted to get people talking with her soap, and she's obviously succeeded. But could she also be making a point that her critics are missing? Sweeney has been open before about society's rampant sexualization of her and the challenges this has brought to her life. By selling soap made with her bathwater, could she be calling attention to a deeper issue? "Our culture polices women's sexuality, profits off it at the same time and shames them for profiting from it themselves − especially when it comes to young, beautiful, talented stars like Sydney Sweeney," Shira Tarrant, a women's, gender and sexuality studies professor and the author of "The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know." In short: Sweeney's soap is a statement in more ways than one, intentional or not. Sweeney said she got the idea for the soap after seeing the internet's reaction to an advertisement she did with Dr. Squatch last year. That ad, which showed a nearly nude Sweeney sitting in a bathtub, got over 1.7 million likes on Instagram, along with plenty of comments inquiring about how to buy the actress' bathwater from the commercial shoot. What health & wellness means for you: Sign up for USA TODAY's Keeping It Together newsletter Sweeney said she and Dr. Squatch decided to give the people what they want. 'When your fans start asking for your bathwater, you can either ignore it, or turn it into a bar of Dr. Squatch soap,' the actress said in a press release. It seems that, no matter what she does, Sweeney can't escape scrutiny over her body. More recently, the actress stirred buzz for gaining 30 pounds to play boxer Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic. Some have noted that Sweeney's soap stunt seems especially odd, given what the actress has said before about being objectified. Sweeney opened up about the scrutiny surrounding her body last year in an interview with Variety. "I see it, and I just can't allow myself to have a reaction," she told the outlet. "I don't know how to explain it — I'm still trying to figure it out myself. People feel connected and free to be able to speak about me in whatever way they want, because they believe that I've signed my life away. That I'm not on a human level anymore, because I'm an actor. That these characters are for everybody else, but then me as Sydney is not for me anymore. It's this weird relationship that people have with me that I have no control or say over." More: Sydney Sweeney promotes her own bathwater in new soap collab. The internet has thoughts. It's not just Sweeney who's come under fire recently either. Last week, Sabrina Carpenter received similar backlash when she unveiled the cover of her upcoming album 'Man's Best Friend.' The cover shows the pop star on her knees as a man off-camera holds her by the hair. Some defended the cover, while others called it degrading. "It's always so funny to me when people complain. They're like, 'All she does is sing about this.' But those are the songs that you've made popular," Carpenter told Rolling Stone about the controversy. "Clearly you love sex. You're obsessed with it." According to gender and sexuality experts, there are many ways to interpret Sweeney's intentions. On the one hand, it's possible she's acquiescing to society's mistreatment of her. If this is the case, it's something that, unfortunately, many women can relate to, says Leora Tanenbaum, author of the book "Sexy Selfie Nation: Standing Up for Yourself in Today's Toxic, Sexist Culture." "I heard the narrative so many times of 'I may as well monetize my sexuality because everyone else is already exploiting and objectifying me'," Tanenbaum says. On the other hand, it's also possible that Sweeney may be leaning into parody and satire in order to call out this objectification. Unless she states her intentions, we can't know for sure. "Sydney Sweeney just found a brilliant way to literally package her own reputation — and sell it," Tarrant says. "Is this simply a money-making publicity stunt or a provocative statement about larger issues? The answer is both." Perhaps the bigger question isn't what Sweeney is trying to say with her soap, but rather what her soap says about us. Tanenbaum says the soap's popularity raises more questions about the people buying it than it does about Sweeney. Degrading or empowering? Why people can't stop talking about Bianca Censori's naked dress. The conversation around Sweeney's soap presents an opportunity for reflection. What does sexual empowerment really look like? There's nothing wrong with wanting to feel sexy − but it's important to know where this desire is coming from and why. "I don't believe it's a good idea to engage in sexual behavior just to fulfill a script that's handed to you, or to prove a point to other people," Tanenbaum says. "When you take ownership over your sexuality to meet the expectations of other people, you actually lose your autonomy because it's about other people, not you." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Sydney Sweeney and the real message of her bathwater soap
USA Today
3 days ago
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- USA Today
The internet has a wild obsession with Sydney Sweeney's body. So she got in on the joke.
The internet has a wild obsession with Sydney Sweeney's body. So she got in on the joke. Show Caption Hide Caption Sydney Sweeney arrives at the 2025 Met Gala in dazzling black gown Sydney Sweeney graces the Met Gala red carpet in a dazzling black gown. What's more shocking: That an A-list celebrity made soap with her bathwater, or that the soap is now re-selling for thousands of dollars online? The internet is divided over a recent marketing gimmick involving Sydney Sweeney, who, in collaboration with the men's personal care company Dr. Squatch, authorized the creation and sale of bars of soap containing, among other things, her bathwater. Yes, this is real. In fact, the actress told E! News at the "Echo Valley" premiere earlier this month it was actually her idea. "I think that's it's more fun to see everybody else talk about it," Sweeney said, when asked for her reaction to the soap. Dr. Squatch made 5,000 bars of the soap − dubbed Sydney's Bathwater Bliss − and sold them online for $8 each. They quickly sold out, and now those bars are getting re-sold for much, much more on eBay. Some are priced as high as $1,600. The soap clearly has its fans, but not everyone's amused by it. "Sad day for humanity," one person wrote on Instagram. "Everyone who bought this is an absolute vile form of human," wrote another. Sweeney clearly wanted to get people talking with her soap, and she's obviously succeeded. But could she also be making a point that her critics are missing? Sweeney has been open before about society's rampant sexualization of her and the challenges this has brought to her life. By selling soap made with her bathwater, could she be calling attention to a deeper issue? "Our culture polices women's sexuality, profits off it at the same time and shames them for profiting from it themselves − especially when it comes to young, beautiful, talented stars like Sydney Sweeney," Shira Tarrant, a women's, gender and sexuality studies professor and the author of "The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know." In short: Sweeney's soap is a statement in more ways than one, intentional or not. Sydney Sweeney, Sabrina Carpenter and the truth about sexualization Sweeney said she got the idea for the soap after seeing the internet's reaction to an advertisement she did with Dr. Squatch last year. That ad, which showed a nearly nude Sweeney sitting in a bathtub, got over 1.7 million likes on Instagram, along with plenty of comments inquiring about how to buy the actress' bathwater from the commercial shoot. What health & wellness means for you: Sign up for USA TODAY's Keeping It Together newsletter Sweeney said she and Dr. Squatch decided to give the people what they want. 'When your fans start asking for your bathwater, you can either ignore it, or turn it into a bar of Dr. Squatch soap,' the actress said in a press release. It seems that, no matter what she does, Sweeney can't escape scrutiny over her body. More recently, the actress stirred buzz for gaining 30 pounds to play boxer Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic. Some have noted that Sweeney's soap stunt seems especially odd, given what the actress has said before about being objectified. Sweeney opened up about the scrutiny surrounding her body last year in an interview with Variety. "I see it, and I just can't allow myself to have a reaction," she told the outlet. "I don't know how to explain it — I'm still trying to figure it out myself. People feel connected and free to be able to speak about me in whatever way they want, because they believe that I've signed my life away. That I'm not on a human level anymore, because I'm an actor. That these characters are for everybody else, but then me as Sydney is not for me anymore. It's this weird relationship that people have with me that I have no control or say over." More: Sydney Sweeney promotes her own bathwater in new soap collab. The internet has thoughts. It's not just Sweeney who's come under fire recently either. Last week, Sabrina Carpenter received similar backlash when she unveiled the cover of her upcoming album 'Man's Best Friend.' The cover shows the pop star on her knees as a man off-camera holds her by the hair. Some defended the cover, while others called it degrading. "It's always so funny to me when people complain. They're like, 'All she does is sing about this.' But those are the songs that you've made popular," Carpenter told Rolling Stone about the controversy. "Clearly you love sex. You're obsessed with it." According to gender and sexuality experts, there are many ways to interpret Sweeney's intentions. On the one hand, it's possible she's acquiescing to society's mistreatment of her. If this is the case, it's something that, unfortunately, many women can relate to, says Leora Tanenbaum, author of the book "Sexy Selfie Nation: Standing Up for Yourself in Today's Toxic, Sexist Culture." "I heard the narrative so many times of 'I may as well monetize my sexuality because everyone else is already exploiting and objectifying me'," Tanenbaum says. On the other hand, it's also possible that Sweeney may be leaning into parody and satire in order to call out this objectification. Unless she states her intentions, we can't know for sure. "Sydney Sweeney just found a brilliant way to literally package her own reputation — and sell it," Tarrant says. "Is this simply a money-making publicity stunt or a provocative statement about larger issues? The answer is both." Sydney Sweeney's bathwater soap is selling for thousands. What does that say about us? Perhaps the bigger question isn't what Sweeney is trying to say with her soap, but rather what her soap says about us. Tanenbaum says the soap's popularity raises more questions about the people buying it than it does about Sweeney. Degrading or empowering? Why people can't stop talking about Bianca Censori's naked dress. The conversation around Sweeney's soap presents an opportunity for reflection. What does sexual empowerment really look like? There's nothing wrong with wanting to feel sexy − but it's important to know where this desire is coming from and why. "I don't believe it's a good idea to engage in sexual behavior just to fulfill a script that's handed to you, or to prove a point to other people," Tanenbaum says. "When you take ownership over your sexuality to meet the expectations of other people, you actually lose your autonomy because it's about other people, not you."
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The internet has a wild obsession with Sydney Sweeney's body. So she got in on the joke.
USA TODAY and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability subject to change. What's more shocking: That an A-list celebrity made soap with her bathwater, or that the soap is now re-selling for thousands of dollars online? The internet is divided over a recent marketing gimmick involving Sydney Sweeney, who, in collaboration with the men's personal care company Dr. Squatch, authorized the creation and sale of bars of soap containing, among other things, her bathwater. Yes, this is real. In fact, the actress told E! News at the "Echo Valley" premiere earlier this month it was actually her idea. "I think that's it's more fun to see everybody else talk about it," Sweeney said, when asked for her reaction to the soap. Dr. Squatch made 5,000 bars of the soap − dubbed Sydney's Bathwater Bliss − and sold them online for $8 each. They quickly sold out, and now those bars are getting re-sold for much, much more on eBay. Some are priced as high as $1,600. The soap clearly has its fans, but not everyone's amused by it. "Sad day for humanity," one person wrote on Instagram. "Everyone who bought this is an absolute vile form of human," wrote another. Sweeney clearly wanted to get people talking with her soap, and she's obviously succeeded. But could she also be making a point that her critics are missing? Sweeney has been open before about society's rampant sexualization of her and the challenges this has brought to her life. By selling soap made with her bathwater, could she be calling attention to a deeper issue? "Our culture polices women's sexuality, profits off it at the same time and shames them for profiting from it themselves − especially when it comes to young, beautiful, talented stars like Sydney Sweeney," Shira Tarrant, a women's, gender and sexuality studies professor and the author of "The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know." In short: Sweeney's soap is a statement in more ways than one, intentional or not. Sweeney said she got the idea for the soap after seeing the internet's reaction to an advertisement she did with Dr. Squatch last year. That ad, which showed a nearly nude Sweeney sitting in a bathtub, got over 1.7 million likes on Instagram, along with plenty of comments inquiring about how to buy the actress' bathwater from the commercial shoot. What health & wellness means for you: Sign up for USA TODAY's Keeping It Together newsletter Sweeney said she and Dr. Squatch decided to give the people what they want. 'When your fans start asking for your bathwater, you can either ignore it, or turn it into a bar of Dr. Squatch soap,' the actress said in a press release. It seems that, no matter what she does, Sweeney can't escape scrutiny over her body. More recently, the actress stirred buzz for gaining 30 pounds to play boxer Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic. Some have noted that Sweeney's soap stunt seems especially odd, given what the actress has said before about being objectified. Sweeney opened up about the scrutiny surrounding her body last year in an interview with Variety. "I see it, and I just can't allow myself to have a reaction," she told the outlet. "I don't know how to explain it — I'm still trying to figure it out myself. People feel connected and free to be able to speak about me in whatever way they want, because they believe that I've signed my life away. That I'm not on a human level anymore, because I'm an actor. That these characters are for everybody else, but then me as Sydney is not for me anymore. It's this weird relationship that people have with me that I have no control or say over." More: Sydney Sweeney promotes her own bathwater in new soap collab. The internet has thoughts. It's not just Sweeney who's come under fire recently either. Last week, Sabrina Carpenter received similar backlash when she unveiled the cover of her upcoming album 'Man's Best Friend.' The cover shows the pop star on her knees as a man off-camera holds her by the hair. Some defended the cover, while others called it degrading. "It's always so funny to me when people complain. They're like, 'All she does is sing about this.' But those are the songs that you've made popular," Carpenter told Rolling Stone about the controversy. "Clearly you love sex. You're obsessed with it." According to gender and sexuality experts, there are many ways to interpret Sweeney's intentions. On the one hand, it's possible she's acquiescing to society's mistreatment of her. If this is the case, it's something that, unfortunately, many women can relate to, says Leora Tanenbaum, author of the book "Sexy Selfie Nation: Standing Up for Yourself in Today's Toxic, Sexist Culture." "I heard the narrative so many times of 'I may as well monetize my sexuality because everyone else is already exploiting and objectifying me'," Tanenbaum says. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr. Squatch (@drsquatch) On the other hand, it's also possible that Sweeney may be leaning into parody and satire in order to call out this objectification. Unless she states her intentions, we can't know for sure. "Sydney Sweeney just found a brilliant way to literally package her own reputation — and sell it," Tarrant says. "Is this simply a money-making publicity stunt or a provocative statement about larger issues? The answer is both." Perhaps the bigger question isn't what Sweeney is trying to say with her soap, but rather what her soap says about us. Tanenbaum says the soap's popularity raises more questions about the people buying it than it does about Sweeney. Degrading or empowering? Why people can't stop talking about Bianca Censori's naked dress. The conversation around Sweeney's soap presents an opportunity for reflection. What does sexual empowerment really look like? There's nothing wrong with wanting to feel sexy − but it's important to know where this desire is coming from and why. "I don't believe it's a good idea to engage in sexual behavior just to fulfill a script that's handed to you, or to prove a point to other people," Tanenbaum says. "When you take ownership over your sexuality to meet the expectations of other people, you actually lose your autonomy because it's about other people, not you." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Sydney Sweeney and the real message of her bathwater soap
