#As I Say its not a proper day unless someones unhinged and/or insane in my inbox so thank you for starting my day off right so far

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your mcavoy!charles is so incredibly squishable to me i just. like. the way everyone was talking about comics erik using comics charles’ waist as a stress toy? that’s how i feel about your mcavoy!charles but with literally all of him. i want to click and drag him at the corners to compress him like a photoshop layer. i want to put him in a hydraulic press and watch him pop in it. i want to melt him in my toaster oven<3 <- i am normal and can be trusted around fictional characters

hello Perfectly Normal And Hinged Xmen Fan anon sometimes people call me snap its lovely to meet you :)

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Can you spoil the plot of The Tutor for people who are curious about it but don’t really wanna watch it (me)

Unless you’ll do it in your proper review in which I will sit tight and wait for 🧎🏼

I don’t mind! I’ll give a baseline overview / spoiler here, and then write my full review without spoilers for everyone else still interested in what I thought lol.

WARNING: full plot spoilers under the cut!

The plot twist of this movie is that Noah Schnapp’s character (Jackson) is pretending to be someone he isn’t to frame his mother’s murderer—aka the tutor, who seems very sane until he starts losing his grip on reality becsuse Jackson is…basically torturing him by being insane / drugging him / lying to him about everything.

That isn’t revealed until nearly the end of the movie though, and the setup for it is really weak (think the exact opposite of what we all see from Stranger Things, even for something as simple as the Henry/One/Vecna reveal in 7 episodes in S4, nevermind something as multi-seasonal as Byler lmao).

The basic premise of it is as follows:

We start the movie from the perspective of Ethan (the Tutor—Garrett Hedlund) and learn that he is expecting a baby with his girlfriend of 5 years (Victoria Justice) but without much money—which is why a phone call from one of his “old friends” saying he’ll make ridiculous amounts of money per day working to train some nepo-kid, Jackson, sends him on his merry way to a week away to teach him.

The story basically shows us as Noah gets too attached to his tutor for reasons we think are half neurodivergent & half stalkerish, but are also rooted in the fact that apparently this “Tutor” was having an affair with Noah’s pregnant mother years ago, and ended up killing her because…the tutor is psychotic and hiding it himself. Jackson’s secret goal is to make Ethan admit to the fact that he killed Jackson’s mother, yes—but (and we don’t learn this until later) he also wants to make Ethan pay for what he’s done (taking his mother and future sibling away) by making his life a living hell, basically.

The escalation of the conflict is the fact that Jackson basically manipulates Ethan into doing shady things (along with the friends he’s working with) in a house that doesn’t belong to him—all while Ethan doesn’t understand there is a connection between them. This is followed by ongoing gaslighting to make Ethan unstable enough to admit what he’s done. We learn sporadically that Ethan’s dad (and him?) was a drunk, and that Ethan has cheated on his girlfriend, which is why he’s trying to “become a better person,” but…Jackson being as unhinged as he is puts a strain on him as time goes on.

After a bunch of increasing manipulation from Jackson and his friends, Ethan agrees to meet Jackson “where she died,” and we learn “the truth.” We then see Ethan complete his breakdown from his “good” self to the point of killing Jackson’s friend + trying to kill Jackson, who has also managed to convince Ethan’s own pregnant girlfriend that Ethan is insane through his ongoing tortures (Ethan hadn’t told her about his connection to the dead woman, and when she finds out it causes problems, obviously).

Noah ends up shooting Ethan and killing him (see: the iconic Noah with a gun shot) because Ethan gets distracted from hunting Noah when his girlfriend shows up—and then we end the movie with Jackson and the girlfriend just. Not telling the police where Ethan’s body is in the water he fell into after being shot lmao.

—basically it’s a story that flips who you think is the good guy on its head, though Jackson is certainly not “good” by any metric lol. Honestly the plot of the film isn’t technically that terrible—it’s just really poorly executed, albeit hilarious in a camp way. The “review” part of it will come later, but hopefully this synopsis is enough for your question about the plot itself lol.

Thanks for the ask!