Comments on: Mindjob Movie Thelma Explained and Unpacked

By: Horror fan

Horror fan — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:57:36 +0000

Umm – this was a supernatural movie. Thelma in the end realizes the full potential of her power – that she can control it. Free of drugs and any guilt, she can end life, and she can give life – now at will. She heals Mom (for now), she brings back Anja (for now), she gets rid of Dad (forever). It’s a dark ending. She is now a person for whom the world will bend or else.

By: Namit

Namit — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:07:21 +0000

By the end of the movie Thelma had control on her powers she brought back her lover from past…healed her mother…why then couldn’t she brought her father back…she was distressed about him and tried ….she could even brought back her baby brother back with such kind of power….why didn’t she?

By: m

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:28:36 +0000

I tend to agree with Ed’s interpretation. The allegory is what’s driving the plot and behaviors of each character. Their actions are not to be taken literally, as if Anja is an automaton in Thelma’s world, and her dad really lit on fire, etc. Instead, now that Thelma is free of parental and societal shackles that are possessing her, she’s “exorcised the demon” and can allow her natural desires to manifest and attract authentic life experiences. No more angry child fantasy wishes running rampant.

But I’m curious to understand, are the criticisms that the plot falls short of explaining the “supernaturalness” occurring? It couldn’t suspend our disbelief? I didn’t personally have an issue with this.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:56:22 +0000

SPOILER ALERT: HERE IS THE CORRECT EXPLANATION

You guys are all whack. Simple as this: she’s got a supernatural power — she can make people disappear and things happne. Trouble starts when she’s a kid. Her parents are super over religious and control her every move and every thought.

But she goes to college and begins to “experience the world herself” as her father puts it. Meanwhile she starts struggling with her imprisoned past self (i.e. all scenes with parents) along with her new free self (i.e. smoking, drinking, falling in love with a girl).

She then goes home, (i.e. back to the religious prison). She then confronts her father, (i.e. her captor) and sends him to a fiery hole at the bottom of the lake. However, she struggles even with this and goes to try to save him. But she’s not successful and he dies. But, with his death, she is finally unshackled and free, hence the black bird coming out of her mouth, then coming back to life and flying away once the dad is dead. This is the revelation and the new freeThelma.

She then goes to see mom, who she now heals, then goes to bring Anja back. Life is grand and she lives happily ever after. (i.e. She’s finally freed herself from her religious nut job (or societal shackles, if you’re so inclined) and is able to harness her powers the way it was meant to be (i.e. not like what happened to grandma, who was left locked up in hospital room).

LESSON OF THE DAY: F- THE MAN. YOU DO YOU.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

By: Nicolas Danan

Nicolas Danan — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:38:17 +0000

The fact that she mind controlled Anja actually is proven in every version.
We don’t know the extent of her power.
But what we do know is that Anja appeared at thelma’s building without knowing why she was there and thought she had sent a text, shiwh she hadn’t.
Then she stays the night because that’s what thelma wants deep down.
All that happens is because of what she wants and thinks.
Hence why the scene is repeated twice in the end. She wants it to happen and it happens.
What happens with the fake weed is easily explanable, she believes it is actually weed and so she actually hallucinates through it.
And when the friend tells her it’s not weed, the hallucination stops.

All of it is because she wants it.

By: Lara

Lara — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:25:21 +0000

I agree with your version. I do not think that Thelma mind controlled Anja to love her.. on the contrary.. I think Thelma was so overwhelmed by Anja and her own feelings for her that thise feelings caused in her for her power to emerge.. at the beginning the seizures frightened her.. she had no idea what was happening nor how to control it.. she wanted explanations for her condition and she also wanted her desires to disappear (hence all the prayers, feelings of guilt when she went out, drank with Anja or went to the party)… at the opera Thelma seemed frightened, aroused and at the same time had deep feelings of guilt after she kissed Anja (due to her Christian upbringing), did not look like a person who would have mind controlled the actions of Anja..
Also.. at the party.. if she was able to control what other people do, she would not have let them convince her she was druged and embarass herself with masturbatung in front of others..
I think what her dad told her was just to put her down.. just like they sedated her to be more calm.. to make her believe that her feelings and Anja’s feelings were not real and make her “forget” about it.. because her mum and dad could not accept their daughter being a lesbian…
I do jot have a good explanation as of why did she kill her father bit I think she did that to free herself from the clutches of her father… making her mum walk was sort of an appology for killing her baby brother and to make her mother indepepndant.. because that day Tgelma probably broke all her connections with her parents forever..

By: karma

karma — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 19:51:51 +0000

On the other hand, my version is that Thelma can not make people do things. What the father said to Thelma that “actually Anja doesn’t love her…. but because Thelma force Anja to love her by her mind, then Anja loves her” is just because the parents are religious so they don’t want Thelma is a lesbian (or the parent don’t want Thelma continue to likes a woman). Being a lesbian is a sin in her parent’s point of view.

In the library, just before Thelma had a seizure, it was Anja who went to sit besides Thelma. When Thelma was swimming, it was Anja who first greeted her “hi…” and introduce her name to Thelma. Next, it was Anja who sent Thelma a friend request on facebook.

But Yes, Thelma is falling in love with Anja soon after that.
At the theater, it was Anja who starts holding Thelma’s hand. And (to me) Thelma face expression look like she is surprised but at the same time she likes it. Then Thelma’s hand starts to tremble but then Anja hold her hand. They went out of the theater, and Anja kiss her. If this moment is caused by Thelma’s mind, the scene show Thelma’s face expression is not like “aha… what I have Anja to do with me is happening now” :).

Also, later on the party, Anja is asking why Thelma ignore her message which Thelma respond that she is busy. For me, it’s hard to think that Thelma by the power of her mind make Anja text her all the times, ignore Anja’s text, then make Anja complain about it on the party.

I think Thelma’s ability (and her grandmother) is to make people disappear (or appear), not to make people like/hate her (or the grandmother). Something like “I like this human, abracadabra be here ! … I hate this human, abracadabra be gone !”

Under her parents influence force (about religious thing), this caused Thelma hate Anja (while actually she love her) then have Anja disappear.

The same with the father. After under pressure of her father to swallow the pill, she ask “let me go” but the father reply “go to sleep”. So she hates the father, then have the father disappear.

After the father gone, no force anymore.
Thelma never hate Anja (on the contrary love her), so she is thinking Anja kiss her neck. Abracadabra, Anja appear from behind her… yet Anja doesn’t kiss her neck as in Thelma’s mind before.

But still, my version has a loophole which is the mother at last can walk after her leg touched by Thelma :).

By: aguila9

aguila9 — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 09:22:34 +0000

My take: when her father told her about how she could even make people do things (be loved by Anja) and not just disappear them in uncontrollable emotional fits, she realized just how powerful she was. Unlike her grandmother, she could even overcome the drug cocktail she was given. She could even bring back someone she’d disappeared and control them. And so she did. It even seemed like she was toying with her mother, healing her, but knowing full-well she could take her out just like she did with her father (and of course the mom knows that the father is gone in that scene, it part of her panic as she is healed). For me the final minutes were even more chilling than the burial scene and the child’s stare in the original Omen.

By: David

David — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:33:37 +0000

Hi there. A bit weird that I watched “What Keeps You Alive” and “Thelma” back to back and found your website looking for some explanations on “Thelma”. Anyways, I agree in pretty much anything you said. Movie is beautifully shot and kept me glued to the screen till the very end.