Blink Twice Plot Summary
The 2024 movie Blink Twice is directed by Zoe Kravitz and stars Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie. It begins with a billionaire playboy – Slater King who meets a waitress named Frida at a gala party and gets enamoured by her. He invites her and her friend – Jess to an island where he lives for a vacation. Slater and his group of friends, go to the island and have a great time there.
However, Frida and Jess begin to realise how they are stuck in a loop of picture-perfect days while they do not have any memory of their nights. Slater helps the group engage in recreational drugs every night as they continue on their island adventure. One day, Frida panics when she realises that she does not know where Jess is. She tries to find her friend but soon realises that the people on the island do not even remember who Jess is.
What happens to Jess?
One night, the group is high on drugs when Jess gets bitten by a snake. She panics but Slater asks her to calm down. However, the snake venom acts as an antidote to the perfume that makes them forget what is happening on the island.
Jess begins to get paranoid and bleeds out of her nose. One morning, Frida accidentally drinks the snake venom that an employee was collecting. She soon realises that Jess is missing. However, upon talking to the other girls, she learns that no one has any memory of who Jess is or where she has gone.
What is happening on the Island?
Sarah tells Frida that she also knows something is amiss on the island but cannot point a finger at it. She shows a bruise on her arm and tells Frida she has no idea how she got it. After meeting Skater’s therapist, Rich who does not remember her, Frida concludes that the people on the island were being made to forget things that were happening there.
Frida learns that the perfume is given to some of the residents of the island i.e. herself, Jess, Sarah, Camilla, Lucas, and Heather. She also concludes that the snake venom is an antidote to the perfume. Frida asks Sarah to sip the venom, with hopes that she too can regain her memories.
One day, when the men – Skater, Lucas, Tom, Vic and Cody go fishing, Frida tries to sneak into Skater’s room. She tries to break the lock of his cupboard and finds her phone inside. She discovers that the phones have no reception. Moreover, she finds Polaroid photos that help jog her memory.
What are Slater and the other men doing to the women on the island?
The Polaroid photos show Frida and the other women on the island being sexually as well as physically assaulted by Slater and the men while they are in a state of trance. Frida starts to panic for Jess’ safety and rushes outside to tell Sarah.
Outside, she learns that Slater and the men are back from their fishing trip and that Camilla and Heather have yet to regain their memories. She is jumpy around Slater which he finds odd.
What happens at the dinner party?
That night at dinner, Sarah makes a comment about how she would like to start self-defence classes for women using her skills from her survival shows. Camilla and Heather also regain some of their memories back and start fighting back.
Tom tries to overpower Camilla but ends up dying during their fight. Sarah manages to injure Cody while Heather attacks Vic and kills him before being shot by Slater’s bodyguard – Stan. Slater hides in his room with Cody and Lucas.
Sarah manages to kill Stan and disarms him. Frida and Sarah barge into the room and try to attack the three men. Despite Slater’s warning, Lucas opens the door and is shot dead. Slater pulls Frida into the room and snatches the knife from her.
What is Slater doing to Frida?
Slater ties Frida’s hands and legs. She sees more polaroids of herself with long hair and suddenly recalls what happened the last time she was on the island. She recalls being sexually assaulted and beaten up by Slater and his friends.
However, after managing to escape the island, she starts getting obsessed with Slater and ends up meeting him all over again at the gala party. Slater takes her back to the island and taking advantage of the fact that she has no memory of the incident, he tries to assault her again in the same way that he did in the past.
How does Blink Twice end?
Sarah manages to get inside the room but is also trapped by Slater. Slater is about to kill Sarah when he suddenly realises that he too is losing his memories. As it turns out, Frida had sneaked some of the perfume in Slater’s vape and his memories were fuzzy because of it.
The film ends with a flashforward to another gala a few years later. Now, Slater is accompanying his wife Frida and has no memory of anything that happened on the island. Frida has the money and the freedom that she craves while Slater is submissive to her.
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