![]() ![]() Throughout the film, Grace condemns the Le Domas’ and the privilege they embody. That transformation is pivotal to the film as well as Grace’s mental state. He seems to not only succumb to his family’s killer ways, but to revel in them. They are murderous one-percenters disguising their bloodlust with a convenient family myth.īy the end of the film’s hour-and-a-half runtime, even Alex, the most apparently regretful Le Domas of them all, has lost pity for his new wife Grace and her unfortunate role in his family’s tradition. The victims are not hapless teenagers taking an unexpected cross-country roadtrip. Unlike the body counts of most horror movies, the fallen in Ready or Not are not intended to inspire sympathy from the audience (barring, perhaps, the penitent Daniel Le Domas ( Adam Brody), who acts as a counterpoint for the rest of the Le Domas’). Her husband, though, and his entire privilege-laden family? Yeah. The price of losing that particular game is steeper than some wounded pride.įor Grace, “game night” involves a body count – one that she, the newlywed and player of honor, does not belong to. Game night can be harmless and recreational (an evening of checkers, maybe), or it can be an incredibly deadly match of hide and seek. ![]() That curse necessitates the indulgence of a game night any time a new person marries into the family. But beneath the veneer of the family’s self-made gaming empire, there lingers a dark curse. The Le Domas’ seems like your average upper-class white household. Your psychopathic, tradition-toting family. Or, if you’re Alex Le Domas ( Mark O’Brien), the kind of girl you’d very begrudgingly bring home to your family. She is, in other words, the type of girl you’d happily bring home to your family. She is thin, well-dressed – in white, no less! – and gorgeous. ![]() When Grace Le Domas ( Samara Weaving) steps onto screen in Ready or Not, she resembles the quintessential Final Girl of the ‘70s and ‘80s. ![]()
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