10 Movies That Wanted You To HATE The Hero

4. Basically Everybody - Bodies Bodies Bodies

Bodies Bodies Bodies
A24

Bodies Bodies Bodies is an amusing Gen-Z riff on the typical And Then There Were None formula, where a group of twenty-somethings find themselves being picked off by a shadowy murderer.

The entire conceit of the movie is that we as the audience have no idea who the hero or Final Girl is actually going to be.

And at the end, we learn the most unexpected of answers: it's both everybody and nobody all at the same time.

As it turns out, there wasn't a killer at all - the first person to die, David (Pete Davidson), accidentally killed himself by slashing his throat while trying to open a wine bottle with a machete for a TikTok video.

The rest of the night's events are fuelled by nothing more than fear, paranoia, and a ton of drugs, as the remaining youngsters start getting one another killed.

But it's Bee (Maria Bakalova) who most obviously fits the Final Girl mold, given that she's the group's outsider. Unlike the wealthy girls around her, she's poor and is forced to care for her mentally ill mother.

Yet even she, the most signposted of heroes, ends up succumbing to the group hysteria and killing two people.

Though Bee ultimately survives along with her girlfriend Sophie (Amandla Stenberg), it's safe to say that she ended up becoming just as detestable as the vapid, privileged girls in her midst.

Basically everybody sucks and true heroism is hard to come by in this movie, which satirises Gen-Z's worst instincts with a sure spikiness.

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