Here's What Happened to Mandy

May 2024 · 4 minute read

If you want the tense ending of HBO’s heavy Gen Z drama, ‘Share’ defined, you’re now not on my own. We’re breaking it all down right here.

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Share follows Mandy (Rhianne Barreto), who wakes up one evening face-down on her garden without a recollection of ways she ended up there. Even more unsettling, she comes to discover a video of her sexual attack is circulating round her faculty. 

But how does the film finish? Keep reading.

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Share tells the necessary tale of sexual assault in the #MeToo generation.

If you might be looking for a mild film or some laughs, Share isn't going to be your first select. It's an ideal sobering view into teenage life in the virtual age and the cinematography itself echoes how dark the topics of the film are (although come to think of it, is that just an HBO trend?).

We watch as basketball player Mandy's life is upended when the video of her sexual attack begins making rounds in the school, with no one realizing who filmed or despatched it first. It's super distressing, and we watch because the 16-year-old dissociates from herself — we feel like we are observing her fugue state, during which worlds and scenes and lights collide and mix into one every other.

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It's like a dream, however a in reality unhealthy one — and it is artfully rendered. Through Mandy's eyes, we see how frightening it is to be uncovered the way she is, and we also watch as her desperate folks strive to make the situation right for her — thru investigations and police studies, which lead nowhere — in the best ways they know how.

Share also offers a larger cultural observation on our day and age and makes us recall to mind the tactics we really feel like each and every different's non-public lives are public gossip for the taking. Given the constant Instagramming and SnapChatting of our day and age, we continuously feel entitled to different's personal lives as although it were in the public area. Share surely has viewers analyze this part of their voyeurism. 

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HBO's Share ending explained — here's what happened to Mandy.

Perhaps probably the most unsettling section about this movie is that we revel in it all through Mandy's perspective, that means that we do not know who assaulted her — or even the extent of the assault until the very last scene. 

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We watch as she confides in her oldsters, who need to do the whole thing they are able to to lend a hand her, and witness a young scene between Mandy and her mom (Poorna Jagganatha) where her mother explains that males don't know the way commonplace assaults on girls had been for the longest time.

And even though she's friendly with the ladies on her basketball group, everybody in class one way or the other feels complicit within the circulating video, which reasons Mandy to shut down. The handiest person we see her connect to is Dylan, who's observed in conjunction with A.J. at the video pulling her pants down as regardless that they are about to sexually assault her.

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Although they organize to accumulate just sufficient proof to attempt to accuse A.J. of voyeurism, that fee is instantly dropped, and Mandy spirals right into a deeper melancholy attempting to perceive what happened, and what Dylan — who she's somewhat more than friends with, and is frequently seen making out with or canoodling with within the automotive — has to do with it.

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The previous few scenes is when the motion selections up and the location is, for probably the most phase, resolved. Mandy chats with basketball celebrity A.J. about the fees being dropped, and he apologizes profusely over the phone. "For doing that stuff, you know, making it a joke and taking those pictures and, you know, humiliating you," he says.

However, he denies doing "anything else" when a distressed and sad Mandy presses him. She and Dylan begin to text, and he sends her a video along with an apology message mentioning she can show it to the police. When we see the video, it turns into transparent that he's the person who most certainly raped her, regardless that the digital camera is facing the car window and we don't explicitly see the sexual attack.

The movie ends with Mandy deleting the message on the very end, which at the one hand ends the potential for bringing Dylan to justice, the best way her folks want, however in in a different way, provides her with the closure she most definitely needs to move on from this school year and horrible incident.

It's a wild and, every now and then, miserable journey, however crucial glance into what teenagers face on the web nowadays. Stream Share on HBO.

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