THE STRAYS Netflix Ending Explained
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- čas přidán 21. 02. 2023
- I review, breakdown and explain the 2023 Netflix movie The Strays. I discuss the story focussed on Cheryl who was now Neve living a different life in the Suburbs with her family Ian, Mary and Sebastian. I react to other characters such as Carl and Dione and the ending of Neve leaving her family again.
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Boring!
I think it was kinda dumb… she left, she made herself a new life leaving her first set of kids…& from the way they behaved, I’d say she made the right choice…
She was all about self preservation. I couldn't believe that ending.
@@sassycatslacquer6740 …I thought the ending was the most interesting part… that tiger clearly didn’t change its stripes…
I found the ending so funny. You would think that she would ask the delivery guy for help but she couldn‘t get rid of her old habits and just left her old and new family again 😂
Yeah, such a sad ending!
Yeah i also laughed xD hahaha omg
Exactly that’s what I thought she was going to do
she easily could of call the cops lol there is so many things she could of done
I laughed with disbelief that she can't be doing it again 😂
I thought she was looking for some paper upstairs to write down to the deliver guy and ask for help 😕
Me too 😂
Me too 😂😂😂
Same here!
Me too. I didn’t expect her to just…leave the new scared kids with the crazy, creep killer kids.
Same! 😂
I like how we visibly see her go into her fake self and pretend everything is okay right before the food gets delivered and she leaves them. She was so grateful for a way out, apologized and took her leave- even after knowing Ian was being killed in the other room.
I don't think she is fully capable of loving her children- new or old, fake or real. She will always run from them.
I think it has something to do with her trauma with her past which affected her daily life? She chose to escape the abuse by leaving and later on finding out that her son killed her current husband I think in her mind she felt like she's back again in the past with the abuse and she wanted to escape it again. For me, it was somehow a blessing in disguise that she chose to abandon them again. she somehow unintentionally saved the other two kids from being killed. because i think her other two children won't be satisfied killing the other two without the presence of their mother. I just hate why they chose to become criminals.
@@gabeexc I assumed the ex husband was being abusive when she said " your father, he was a very dangerous man" .. " I don't know if you remember what it was like on coldharbour" when they were at a diner. I read on a comment before that coldharbour lane is somehow a dangerous area due to the high crime rate.
@@cirigaming9377 I agree, it's deep cause it had to have been something to make her so afraid of them...if you pay attention cause why was she so afraid. It's like the movie is trying to throw you off but I do think it's either she saw that the kids were different, evil even from a young age and something happened and then with everything else that she was going through with the father that made her leave.
Cause I was like why was she so afraid of them why not introduce them to her new family but you could see the evil in their eyes.
That aside It's like the movie is showing that she develop the fake persona to both protect her from her past life both mentality and physically. From changing her name to even the wigs, maybe the reason why the aunt didn't want them is cause she knew they were evil. And then now I think she have PTSD maybe thats why she takes the pills, she can't take certain stress and situations so she mentally and physically clocks out. I was wondering if she was going to fight when the older son and her daughter came, but she knows she won't win, she knows that if she try to upset them they will go over the edge and harm her. So maybe when she came back down stairs.......yes she already planned to run away I believe cause she had the jacket but once she noticed that her husband the one person she knew who could defend her was dead, she decided that she can't do this and runs......cause yeah she could have was planning to run and ask the delivery person to call for help. but to me is like once she knew the husband was dead.....is like she looking into the mirror she saying to herself what can I do.
over all I do think she loves her family both of them...but something about her seem to be that she can't handle stress she is dealing with something and I kind of understand if she didn't want to tell her new hubby that she had kids cause she didn't want him to leave her but still if she had told him earlier he then would have decided if he wants to stay and I guess she wasn't taking no chances cause he was still part of the key to her living a better life. and her older kids represent a old life of pain and suffering that she just couldnt handle at all.
or i could be wrong n she just don't want no problems at all lol she just likes to dip when the going gets rough and never really loved anyone but herself.
Movie want to say don't leave your problem fix it while they still small or else it will become big and can effect your future
@@cirigaming9377How is it that she can be excused for abandoning her children because of past trauma, but her older children are not understood for their own traumas they most likely endured from being abandoned by their mother, father, and other family members? I can only imagine what they went through because of her "choice". It's just sad her husband and other children had to suffer from her decisions.
I personally think Carl and Dionne wanted to be accepted by Ian as well. When he said he wanted a divorce from Neve, Carl ONLY saw it as Ian rejecting them because they were black. When in the weight room Carl said, " You are not going to walk away that easy." He was taking his frustration towards his mom on Ian because Ian represented the life their mom abandoned them for. They wanted Neve to want them, miss them, and act like she would make them a big happy family, but even then, they would have always been jealous of their 1/2 siblings . I thought this was a great movie on so many levels. Her wig itching and driving her crazy to me was her black antennas alerting her that something was awry.lol😂 Her raising money for children in Africa (like white people do) then discriminating and lying on the one's right here in your face because she was uncomfortable and scared. I can go on and on,this movie has layers and I like it.
😂😂Not black antennas👏👏
That wig was tearing her up 😂🤣 But l like your explanation about Ian cuz l didn’t understand why he had to be killed 😢
@Brittney Seauxsa I totally agree, I didn't like that he was killed either. He liked her the way she was. He even mentioned she was so beautiful and/or sexy when she wore her natural hair. ALL Neve issues were within herself.
It doesnt matter White or black kids, i cannot blame the the dad for wanting a divorce at that point. He was a nice person. The grownup kids were just crazy.
Carl and Dione were so sick, and nothing could excuse what they did to this family.
When I saw the mom coming down the stairs with the jacket in her hands I busted out laughing. The audacity 😭😭
Making sure she nice and warm during the bike ride while leaving the other set of kids in the COLD 😂😂😂
I am so glad they never tried to sugar coat her character and who she was, all the way up to the end. I hate hate hate when movies make someone a sociopath with a heart of gold. She was a straight up sociopath all the way through, loved it
I really loved this movie. I like how no matter where she is, Cheryl/Neve was always acting. She never got to be herself, so it was so easy for her to leave it all behind. Such a fantastic actress.
Very very true!
Shitty movie i hate this movie it wasted my time
@@kerosto2441 what did you dislike about it? Just curious.
Amazing actress
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The ending is really surprising. I never thought the movie will end like that. 😅
Me too... like wtf
She dips , my jaw dropped when she just said “I’m sorry” and then fucking left , those weren’t her new kids those were accessories
Same! I was shook 😅
@@mulesalumina7220 Movie is still mid though
Me either I thought she was gonna get them help lol she hauled ass
She was a bad person, it wasn’t stress or fear that made her run the first time, it was her feeling entitled to better life. She blamed her failings on being black so she tried to eradicate all traces it, from the way the she speaks and acts to the way she uses wigs to hide her natural hair. I’m also going to assume that the coldharbour she was refering to was Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, a predominantly black area which was linked with gangs amd drugs.
The revalation of Carl and Dione being her children would of been a stain on the life i’m assuming she worked so hard to obtain. She was actually the only person who was hyper focused on their skintones, the rest of the village didn’t show any disdains towards them.
Very well put 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
True except that one school mate, her sons killed with a basketball.
The boy at school was outwardly racist. It was hidden. Why do you think the kids took so easily to other Black people? They were longing to be around people who look like them.
@@ashley.taylor174 i agree i overlooked him
@@daniterry4922 100%. The kid’s only connection to their black side was their mother, who we saw constantly rejecting it. When their half siblings started to share that world with them, they most likely felt a sense of belonging.
I feel like the only people Marvin and Abigail truly hurt were Sebastian and Mary, two people who were blameless in all of this. Their father has been murdered, and their mother has left them.
My analysis of neve is she never loved/cared about both families, I think she was more obsessed with being accepted and living the life she felt she deserved. Her 2nd family fit into that narrative perfect house, husband, career, beautiful kids. She never loved them she loved the idea of having them to build the life she wanted. The min the lie was exposed she left cause it was over, ie when the husband asked for divorce, and kids finding out the kind of person she really was. I will say at least she was consistent across the board she only thought of herself. Good movie
Interesting thought!
Very good analysis.🙌🏾
When did he asked for divorce
Lol what did the dad to deserve to die he was only caught in the crossfire
@@wouldanyoneelseliketobehea7068 during family reunion before he died.
I was soo mad that they killed the dad smh 😩😡
Me too.
He definitely didn’t deserve it. Poor guy
Exactly! This is why I hated the ending and The movie. It was ridiculous.
I didn’t hate it…as some one usually always dies in a horror movie/psyc thriller…but I definitely felt bad he was killed
Same. He had nothing to do with Cheryl’s shenanigans especially since he learned her real name like 30 minutes before he was unalived. He was talking about a divorce and I was like sir just focus on living through the night.
Im so confused .. The ending of her leaving would be so perfect as it would show that she is the real evil but then I realize the dad is dead, which makes the first abandoned children The evil for kill the dad.
Moral of this movie: Uber Eats in their world is 100x faster than ours.
😂😂😂
Currently waiting on Popeyes I ordered 40 min ago, this comment hit my soul
Carl and dionne are beyond mad . She’s wrong for abandoning them but the strange behaviors from the jump would’ve had me on guard .
Do you blame them? Carl said he had just stopped wetting the bed and he was like 18-19
@@nicolekalasuva9812 I just don't get why they directed so much of that anger on the new family and not as much on Cheryl. The new family did nothing wrong and they had no idea.
@@nicolekalasuva9812 wdym can u blame them? they killed the father 💀 all she did was abandoned them lmao and they start killing people? nah bro
@@miyuhls4508 yea the movie is garbo, those kids were bad im guessing she ran away not only from the father but from those kids lol. how the hell you killing someone you barely know like wtf.
@@wdadwdwdwadw8604that part pissed me off. That man had nothing to do with them. It was even on their side. SMH.
This should have been a series! Did the previous kids kill the new kids? Did they join together? So many questions! I need answers lol
Yeah a series would have been good!
yes-i also wanted to know more about cheryl and what happened before her suburban life
I agree I want more
I hope they joined together. They were all victims really in the end.
That’s exactly what I said! Lol
I really liked the movie. Perfect run-time, good acting and a taught story. I knew Cheryl-Neve was going to run as soon as she totally changer her persona from scared to the "everything is all right" Neve stiff-upper lip type. When she asked the Uber driver to wait for a tip and went upstairs, I knew she was getting something to run away again. She coldly assessed the situation and did what was best for her. Which makes me wonder what she did as Cheryl and if the kid's father was really a "bad" man.
One line I liked is when she said "I only did what men do all the time" in leaving kids. Which is very true.
No you didnt, know that. Shut up!
Exactly it was clear she was going to leave and the first son came to the house to initiate the reality that she would leave them all in the end which would reveal Cheryl was the liar from the start
@@mitzietheodore2589 Did so!
"I only did what men do all the time"...that line being used shows one major thing. There are an abundance of women who will fight to the death for the right to behave like the type of men they hate without experiencing the shame, accountability, and consequences those men do.
And society, like your "that's true" response shows, is very willing to oblige them.
@@MrColdwilliam I didn't mean there's no accountability. When a man leaves his family, he's thought of as a dead-beat dad but how many women do the same? It just made me think. She's still accountable for her actions, obviously, but we can't fathom a mother leaving her kids behind.
Neve is living now in London, dating a Latin guy and dancing salsa.
Why do I love this ending for her?
Justice for Ian ✊ He was a good man Savannah, a good man ✊😭
Yesss🙃🤣🤣🤣🤣😭I'm happy we all feel the same ,like I understand you in your feelings,but leave dad out of this!
😀😀😀😀😀
💀☠️💀☠️
Ohhh ahh ah!!!🤣🤣🤣
Riiiiight 😩😩
My thought on why Ian was killed by Carl: I think Carl maybe wanted to erase "the white" in Neve's/Cheryl's life, just as she had tried to erase everything black in her life, her body and her children. Btw, the name Neve means snow; bright, radiant", so.... basically white.
'Carl' means "the man" or "free man", which is ironic. And 'Dionne' means "follower of Dionysus; Divine", Dionysus being the God of wine (she is drinking non-stoo) but also of insanity.
Ooooh another good thought on Ian being murdered 😮 cuz that pissed me off!
Poor Ian he was a down to earth person 😢😢
Yeah very true!
Yeeahhh...he call them "you Black children" 🤣
@@sugab3160 you realize his wife is black right, the script just needed him to say that for some odd reason, he obviously has no issue with them since he literally married a black woman and had 2 kids with her.
I felt bad for Ian too but he still didn’t have to say your black children! I’m just saying 😅
@@wdadwdwdwadw8604 AND gave a job to the only black girl in town, AND the white guy at the school defending the guy over the cigarette thing, AND the lady at the diner got abused even being very nice to them.
I think carl and dione knew she would abandon her other kids as well. Cheryl can’t handle stress and runs away from whatever problems she’s facing. I don’t know why they killed Ian but im guessing they wanted mary and sebastian to feel abandoned and alone like they did.
She was the only black woman in her town, the headmistress of an elite private school, and salesperson of the year for multiple years. She handled stress fine - in fact she handled it well enough even during the final scene, she was the only one able to play along and oblige Dion and Cole.
What she DIDN'T handle is shame, accountability, and consequences. The very idea of experiencing them gave her nightmares and made her itch. She wouldn't even come clean about her name after her kids came around, then hid that she tried to buy them off. She never expressed honesty and facing what she's done. She ran and everyone at every turn gave her a way out.
@@MrColdwilliam Remember, stress is subjective. I find working in sales to be extremely stressful, my brother on the other hand loves it and is very good at it. I think Cheryl found stress in struggle. She then associated struggling with being poor and being black which is why she specifically focused on eliminating those things from her life.
i didnt want ian to die. i liked ian
@@GraduateJLN she simply didn't handle shame, accountability, or consequences. She didn't like the accountability or consequences of her intial choices and when they came to her door shaming her, she found an out and once again abandoned her responsibilities.
Acting shamelessly, unaccountable, and repeatedly as if her actions were inconsequential.
I disagree. They were after their mother.
We all thought the kids where the strays but it's Neve that is the real stray. Amaeeeziinn
Very very true!
"What are we, some kinda The Strays?"
(Will Smith reference)
Just finished it, the ending was so shocking… this movie has SO MANY directions it could leave us with, to me it just shows your past can never leave you and also of course race
These two comments is precisely what I believe the movie is trying to explain. You never can forget about who you are.
@@ekg891 I wouldn’t say perfect, because they ended up using every trope for the dark skinned characters. It was almost like the director/writer was AGREEING with colorism. She was a horrible mother but most black kids grow up in single parent homes. It’s just too far fetched that they would retaliate to this magnitude over her leaving. They should have made Neves actions much more egregious. She left…ok wow, lots of people do that to their kids. The twist should have been she had killed their father. It would have made their violence more understandable
@@ekg891 I disagree, you don’t purposefully use tropes to make your characters a racist stereotype to try to make a movie with social commentary on colorism lol. It’s just not smart, we are supposed to be rooting for them…not saying “see that’s why she doesn’t like the dark skinned ones” lol. What a silly movie. They should have had the mom kill the first dad and the first kids are out for revenge. That would have made more sense. Their violence just didn’t make any sense.
Oh yeah of course race!
Cos thats never discussed every single fcucking day is it 🙄🥱🥱🥱
Like we meed this sh!t shoved down our throats.
@@ekg891 You said interalised racism??
Racism is about race.
I'm all the way shocked 😲 I thought she was gonna write help on the delivery guys tip, But she just left 😅
Yeah that’s what I thought!
Such a good twist
me too
Lmmaaoo
@@supremeguardianofmemory7598 im ctfu!
I really thought she went upstairs to get a pistol or some form of weaponry..instead she grabbed her purse and jacket and rode away😂😂!! That ending will stay in my mind for awhile
Same and then I remembered it was in the UK 😅
@@BrodyT6464 Lmmaaoo 🤣rigghhtt!! I should have known better
@@BrodyT6464right!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Lmaoooo she pumped right up outta there!!
@@zeuspagan5946 Lmmaaoo hell yeah!! All you heard were the tires 🛵😂
This movie was phenomenally hilarious I swear I laughed the entire way through. The way Sis scalp kept itching under those dusty ass wigs was straight comedy🤣😭 I loved the ending she dipped up outta there once she realized the husband was dead. The way she just kept flipping the switch, acting while acting 🔥
@Lucy Splendid I chucked the chuckliest of chuckles 🤣🤣 hilarious!
I thought it was serious tbh didn't find any of it funny, deep story
😂😂😂 "I'll be right back. Just gotta tip the delivery guy for the next 18years" lmao
I died when Carol confronted her in the bathroom. I wanted him to start crumping when the bathroom door opened, since she's so scared of blackness. Also was she getting her wigs out the dumpster? They shouldn't itch like that
😂🤣😂🤣👏🏽
It wasn’t until I saw her not ask the delivery man for help that I realized she didn’t love the new kids either.
It hit me that she rather keep up appearances than ask for help, so that clued me in.
And the final scene confirmed it. Definitely made the movie worthwhile
This film managed to keep me pissed off until the very end. Excellent!
I felt the same, honestly! What a way to ruin everybody's life around her
YES! pssed at the mom and eventually pssed at the ones I thought I should be rooting for. backwards trash
@@rbz1 well u shouldn’t b because they were hurt and acted accordingly I feel like ur someone that’s insensitive to trauma like yes the dad was cool but ur missing the point u shouldn’t be mad at any of the kids but the mother 🙄
me too no closure nothing☺
I hated it lmao
Well what is clear is that Sheryl cant stand stress she tends to run even they she often excels at what she does. Those previous kids tho oh my goodness they were hurt and was hooked on a sinister way of revenge... nobody gets healing in this movie. sad but i think its indicative of a psychosocial issue we may have in today's world.
She was the only Black woman in her village, the headmistress of a private academy, and salesperson of the year times over. She was shown to handle stress perfectly well. What she DIDN'T handle was the same thing the majority of characters (and audience) feel uncomfortable in attributing to her: shame, accountability, and consequences.
And it is indicative of the psychosocial issue we have in today's (western, democratic first world): society has a very difficult time saying a woman is at fault for her actions and should hold the brunt of shame, accountability, and consequences. And a woman experiencing shame, accountability, and consequences can only be seen as equitable to her experiencing abuse and oppression.
This right here!!! What everyone is scared of saying. Notice she tried to pin it on the dad but her son’s response immediately tells you that she was just as bad if not worse. Not to mention she is clearly a very good liar so we don’t know if anything she says about him can be trusted.
@@La.christo people don't want to admit this because it requires an analysis of how we as a society operate as enablers and supporters of people who commit these kinds of atrocities against others every single day. We are repulsed by the idea that a woman in the democratic western world should ever be held accountable, shamed, or experience consequences for her actions. We'll do all in our power to fill in enough mental blanks that don't even exist to justify her actions.
Society shouts "women and children first" and whispers "unless those children cause her inconvenience".
@@MrColdwilliam just because she’s fully functional in one area doesn’t mean it’s in her everyday life. That’s like saying a motivational speaker can’t be depressed because they are great at their job of motivating others.
@@taylorat3338 fully functional in multiple, frequent high stress endeavours generally speaks to an ability to manage stress.
Dione thought Mary was the favorite. She didn't know they were all just in the same level since Cheryl/Neve could discard them both. They were never loved.
This was crazy! Cheryl/Neve's flight response is on another level.
Very true!
It was on point if you ask me 😂
😂😂😂😂
I know one thing the girl who plays Dion was amazing. She did so good playing that sinister part
Recommend watching ‘Rocks’ for an epic debut performance by her (Bukky Bakray)
She switched moods so well!
@@Parmveer1987yasssss rocks was so good!! That is how I first learned of her as we'll! She is such a good actress!
I think the movie should have concentrated more on Dionne than Carl, because I really understood her pain more than Carl's.
That shimmy shoulder shake when they sang Happy Birthday 😂
I don't understand why the kids didn't go after the dad as well. He also abandoned them. I found that to be an annoying detail.
Maybe they did
This movie shows what it means to be a MOM everything is ALWAYS our fault. Society makes us more responsible and do not hold men accountable, men are coddled. Thats why I really liked the ending to the movie.
@@parisjej So we should abandon the children we created because the men are no longer interested. Really? Why have kids with a trash man? Carl and Dionne's father must have been an abusive nobody when he was dating Neve yet she still chose to get pregnant with him TWICE. Why are we promoting child abandonment because men do it? Some of you shouldn't have kids at all. Insanity at its best.
@Paris Melvin I beg to differ... men do not recieve free housing and child support when the other parent don't want us around. We work until we die to provide for what are usually ingrates and then get told that's what men do.
@@parisjej moms suppose to put the kids before themselves. It’s different compared to a dad leaving
The ending of all 4 kids standing there, then the title "Strays" all made sense. Sad but so many unanswered questions. It was intriguing tho.
I was like, noooo she is not going to leave is she? 😱 then she left! I was baffled.
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I thought she was getting a gun Didn't see that coming til I saw the jacket in her hand I was like wait hold up😅
@@treasurewashington8519 yeah the red jacket. 🤦🏻♀️
@@treasurewashington8519 🤣🤣the minute I saw that jacket my brain started screaming No!
i think carl and dione both wearing the color red alot before could also be a reference to the movie Us, where the doppelgängers in that movie all wore red too. Carl and Dione were like the parallels to Mary and Sebastian. I hope this makes sense lol
Yes, I told my bf that this movie reminds me of US. In both movies, the mother was hiding a dark past.
Absolutely gave me Us vibes!
She didn’t even care about her kids safety that is wild to me lmao 😅 they were just accessories to her
Yeah it did seem that way!
Yes, remember how she would get mad at her daughter over her hair. She didn’t speak first, just went to critiquing her daughter’s hair. She was not a loving mother to her new kids.
@@ashley.taylor174 she dipped out on all 4 of them lmao 🤣
@@nicolekalasuva9812 💀
Ian’s death was supposed to be symbolic. From the beginning of the movie it’s explained that Cheryl feels like her life is hard because she is black. She was good at her job but no promotions no raises she was just a light skinned woman with 2 black children and a black husband. Fast forward she has the life she always dreamed of she gets to be the person she deep down felt she was. When Carl ask Ian how many kg’s he’s pushing he says a few. The death by weights was supposed to symbolize the weight that would come with everything that’s attached to Cheryl the kids their life. Basically he couldn’t hold the weight literally but the think point was to be figuratively which is why he wanted a divorce. She not only left her kids she left them with her sister who ended up giving them away. This means they ended up in the system and some where along the lines some bad things happened to them. Which is why Carl just stopped peeing in the bed and Dione was in a facility. The same way Cheryl attaches her hardships to being black they attached theirs to her. If she left because she didn’t want to be a parent they probably would’ve just killed her or took the money. They thought she was dead to only find out she left them to start a new life have new kids and act as if she’s a suburban white woman.
I think they killed Ian for a reaction, but when she left, it’s almost as if their faces were in disbelief because she didn’t care about her new family either. If she did run away, I think the kids will realize that she is truly the evil one, Ian didn’t deserve to die but his death definitely set the tone in regards to showing what really matters, which is herself. I know Carl wanted to give up and he should have at that point, realistically lol.
Exactly. Honestly i wished he was arrested
She was all about herself. She didn’t even love the new family. She lied to them even after the truth was revealed. I know a few mothers and fathers that walk away from their children only to live the so called perfect life they want. I hope it’s a part 2 and they get her this time
Not sure why the first children believed this was a way to reunite with their mom. If they were going to hurt anyone it should have been their mom alone; the dad had nothing to do with it. (Felt really sorry for him, he was a good guy) But I'm guessing that will really hit home after their mom did another runner ! She only cares about herself and what she believes she should be getting out of life ! I bet that 20 grand cheque bounces !! 🙂😁
I think the reunion was decided after she tried to pay them out, if she did what a mother did and embraced them I think the outcome would have been different. The kids didn’t want to be bought, they wanted love, it shows in the diner when Neve Reaches out to Dionne’s hand. i think neve fucked up and set the tone after trying to give hush money
I truly enjoyed this movie and you touched on all its' good points. Once Neve's demeanor changed to a smile in the last few minutes, I knew she would repeat her old habit. Every movie does not have to have a tidy resolution at the end. Well done.
Yeah the untidy nature of the ending almost reflects how it unfolds in the movie in the closing moments
If "she's a runner, she's a track star" was a movie title
Now 4 kids will be stalking and haunting her as she starts her new life with a new man and new children... there should be Part 2 of this movie... lol
But I dont think her mixed kids would be as crazy as her black children though
@I McCormick at least they were raised with both parents. The black children had no mother she basically deserted them with an abusive father to the point they had to live with their grandma. Those kids went through their entire childhood and adolescene without their mom knowing that she left them to start a new family. So growing up thinking that she left cause she hated the family. That'll psychologically screw you. With the mixed kids the mother only then just split. Those kids had their mom confess her illness to the father and kids so they sort of had the luxury of having her and the dad as a family at least. Even though she was trying to control the kids hanging out with black children. If anything I think they're more concerned about her illness than angry.
@@mariekano9730 _don’t forget. They just watched their dad die and mom walked out and left them for dead. I’m sure that will change them._
When she walked out that door I was just as shocked as the kids she didn’t even care about the husband
I just about lost it when Neve said she was a proud Black woman. It is amazing that Sebastian and Mary have not internalized their mother’s self-hatred. On the other hand, their lack of Black friends made them way too trusting of absolute strangers. They are lucky that Marvin and Abigail did not harm them.
Yeah just made both of them piss their pants and kill their dad 😂
Who knows what happens after she left them. The two kids were witnesses to the murder of their Father. The two older kids were sociopaths
This movie was chilling, I was laughing from nervousness, because of how uncomfortable it made me.
It was definitely an interesting one!
Black trauma is generational and our everyday reality.
It was very unsettling.. I’d planned on watching with my sons but ended up watching it alone. I’m so happy I did that, it was good, but too much for an immature mind. Idk if they’ll correctly process the gems
@@justxkendra If you have Black sons, they definitely needed to watch this movie, since most Black males (the common Black males and Black male celebrities) are the main perpetrators of colorism against their own darker skinned women. The world knows how Black males worship lighter skinned. In fact, this movie would have been more truthful if the story was about a Black male who left his Black family to marry and have children with a White woman or for any woman who was not Black, being that this happens often with Black males. TBT
The restaurant scene with her son Carl lashing out at the waitress killed me 😂
She was a very awkward character wasn’t she!
She didn’t know how to read the room. Obviously they wanted to be left alone and weren’t there for a pleasant lunch she was very annoying and imposing
I literally hatrd her was soo happy when car shouted at her😂
If "F#$k those kids" was a movie!!!!!!!!!! lmaooo 🤣🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣
Try watching Monique’s “The Reading” as well. Similar theme.
My husband and I laughed so hard at the ending!! We loved this movie because it has so many nuggets in it covering race, culture, class, mental health and stereotypes. Well done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Same! We laughed too 😃
Oh yeah cos race is never discussed is it? Or mental health 🙄
We go on Netflix to get away from the constant victim culture dominating every single part of our every day life!
Just what we need!
More shit stirring!
You are so pretty🥰🥰🥰
@@rizwana5684 Aww thank you 😊
Why would you laugh at something so serious? This happens to families in real life, especially among Blacks who show favoritism to their lighter skinned children. Smh
I feel like the movie is really speaking on bum fathers. In a scene neve/Cheryl exclaims that what she did fathers do all the time. Which is leave their children for a better life and later settle making a new family. But the question is if the father were to find himself in a same struggle as before their new better life...would they again run? People never change, they ran away from their kids once they will do it again and again. No matter the mask or wig they wear. Good movie.
She tried to make this about men rather than owning up to her own fucked up mentality & character. She didn't have to make this about absent fathers. Women can be dead beats too but they are too prideful to admit it.
Makes sense now why it’s called the strays, mom abandoned them just like that
Very true!
She operates like a stray too
Man the ending really baffled me i was like “its over???” I feel so bad for the children. Their faces at the end esp Mary and Dione’s was so heartbreaking
Yeah they were all the same by the end!
I guess I’m a jerk, but I don’t feel bad for the children. The older children were out for blood and the younger children took her for granted. I thought they all got what they deserved. I love the commentary on motherhood in this movie. Mothers are not people in society, they are romanticized self-sacrificial saints who are both put on a pedestal and in a box. Cheryl/Neve wasn’t having it. I love her for that! ❤
@@BrainPilot So you are justifying her abandoning her children? Really are you not aware that in some countries that is criminal behaviour? Here is an idea, WHY DID SHE HAVE KIDS IN THE FIRST PLACE? You think someone who abandons her kids deserves to be appreciated by the other kids she has?
@@jam_is_jammin you're messed up if you think abandoning your children on more than one occasion is something to be admired. You can't use motherhood as a label here because mother's wouldn't run away from their children and leave them in the face of harm repeatedly and not look back. Please do not have children.
@@deadlydizzle3942 I never said abandoning children was ok. The point I was trying to make was Cheryl/Neve had her own traumatic experiences. It’s very easy to side with the children, but the story was told from the point of view of the mother for a reason. I like that the story didn’t give in to modern conventions and neither did Cheryl/Neve.
Cheryl said I look out for me, me and only me
I thought Neve was gonna electricute everyone when she realized there was water everywhere 😂
Me too!
I feel bad for Ian who was also a victim in this movie. Crazy Carl and Dione should have taken it against their selfish mom not the new family who are unaware of Neve/Cheryl's past.
Fr he didn’t do anything wrong I felt so bad poor guy🥲
It was so stupid of them to kill her husband. He had nothing to do with her lies. He was a victim as well. Killed him for no reason but they found out they are ALL disposable to her. When shit gets hard she is gonna leave without regret.
The first children were crazy
and sheryl is the reason why they're crazy
I feel they shoulda went into more of what they been thru for us to feel how they got that bad moving house to house psychical emotional abuse homeless abusive foster parents probably it didn’t really give us a good backstory or tell what happened to there dad
@@pueroricanwaifu yeah i feel like people would be more able to relate to why they got like that
The children suffered trauma....they were given to her sister which gave them away yet mother was assumed dead and living a beautiful life while they were in poverty in all areas of life
@@pueroricanwaifu shiiiid u could look at them and tell they went through hell
The ending was outstanding. I've never seen someone be such an incredible POS in a movie like that. It was pure, unfiltered narcissistic entitlement and cowardice all rolled into one racially self hating package. I usually don't like ambiguous endings, because I think it's just lazy writing, but in this context, it was perfect, and it pissed me off in the best way, if that makes any sense lol. Glad this movie caught my eye and I took a chance on it.
This movie reminds me of the movie US. Both mothers were hiding a dark past. The kids are like indirect replacements or tethers of each other.
I haven't seen "us" but I thought it was going to be something along the lines of "get out"!!!
Just watched it with my sister on FaceTime I was holding up my phone to show her the ending 😂 I couldn’t believe it great ending
Interesting way to watch a movie! 😂
Why not watch it on your phone and screen share it lol
@@PrincessGenecia I only just showed her the ending and I was watching it on my telly 😂
Ian was probably not used to lifting weight. When he realized he couldn’t lift the metals up, he could have gently lowered the bar down to his chest and roll it down his stomach to his waist side. He could have avoided his death (that’s if he died).
That’s what I usually do when I’m alone in the gym and suddenly get weak while holding a heavy bar when doing a bench press
Carl would have killed him anyway because he walked back over to him with the long machete when he thought he would do what you suggested as a warning. Because in the scene you see him holding his hands under the bar for "support" (which we know he is not doing that) and then he starts walking away and comes back holding the machete. So Ian knew. Sucks when you have to choose death but at your own hands. 😢
She had some trauma in her life. She was also a sociopath. She did the same thing at each opportunity and was able to move forward and code switch. Hopefully her second set of children were able to take out the first set or they bond and seek the mother out.
Part 2 would be excellent to see. I thought she was going to get the police but the movie ended hanging on with no closure. Very good movie I loved it but the ending was like not expect being pushed off a mountain or you’re left in a fire and no help comes to the rescue. Her children had developed dangerous mental issues, maybe the first had bad influence over his children. I think they came to kill her and the family. OMG! I think the dad should’ve lived because he didn’t know anything. Her so was very better and very angry!
Praying 🙏🏼
are you sure there’s a part 2?
they left it like that. the creator of the movie made us choose who to side with and how to react. it will also reflect or show our personality based on our opinion. For me, she may be irresponsible as a mother, but these two children won't have any excuse for what they did. they chose to become criminals. while their mom chose to become a survivor.
She had no reaction to Ian dying. She knew inside that she would have to leave again and find another rich man lmfao! 🤣🤣🤣🤣thts why she left all her kids once again. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah she just looked and walked off... cold!
I loved when she said: " men do it all the time". Honestly, they do. Men leave their families all the time, but when a woman does that, people get judgmental.
That’s because once a woman is pregnant, she has options. She can put her child up for adoption or ab*rt the child that she doesn’t want .If a man gets a woman pregnant, there’s really nothing he can do about it.
I have never seen anyone praise a man for leaving his family.
@@ms.valdez5633 The point is that people do not see it as a big deal because it happens all the time.
@@gaila.9852 It has always been a big deal and men get judge for that. But if assume since women carry the children you would think they want their kids. Non the less it fucked up if both genders do. And walk away moms happen more often then you think.
Right this story made no sense, if this is a plausible string of events why don’t we see people killing their dead beat fathers out here lol. It was just a silly movie. She was a narcissist. So what, lots of parents are. They should have added a twist that she had killed their father and then ran away to the suburbs. Then the kids being violent towards the family would have made a lot more sense
I think the hardest part of what really broke the childrens' hearts is that the mom wanted to get rid of them by telling them to go back to where they came from with two separate cheques.
As much as how the children wanted the luxury lives they have missed out, it's more of the nurturing and loving mother they were hoping to find. But it turned up more disappointing and therefore the revenge took place.
I think the father died innocently. But also a trauma projection of the father figure that the children never had.
Ending just pulled all the children together, I believe.
A shocking realization that it's not the children at fault, it's the life that the mother has created and abandoned as soon as it longer fits the way she has planned it.
Actually all the characters in this movie are victims of hers.
Of how she wants to live her life and how she's seen by others is far more important than the people in it.
But no one gets this
Ppl would rather call the fully black kids super crazy rather than get the message
Facts. I'd say the older brother had the most heart, he even stopped pressuring the younger brother when he saw him piss his pants. His intention was never to heart him, but make him stronger and prepared for the pains of the real world, and to not depend on "mum".
Why don’t kids who have good moms kill their dads who have abandoned them? We never hear of that. Why is there not more responsibility on their father, a Black man, to have raised them best as he could. So are we saying, “we know your dad is a POS, so it’s all up to your mom to be a saint and carry ALL the burden of parenthood… and if she doesn’t, she has committed a mortal sin”? Why?
@@daniterry4922 the dad was abusive and she left the kids with him when she knew. I’m not sure if the dad was dealt with or not, but the main point of the movie was the mom was willing to abandon her kids, twice.
I hate how the father was killed. They should have killed Cheryl instead.
Loved this movie. I'm pretty sure it's about colorism. (Basic racism but adding levels of "darkness" means more discrimination even between Blacks.)
Cheryl/Neve isn't happy with who she is, but she's a narcissist so she just makes up a new life and abandons the old one. No empathy for her own children.
At the end she was already flirting with the delivery driver & uses him to escape, all 4 kids this time. They're each a different beautiful shade of color but she can't feel love.
Ian getting crushed is the worst! He seemed so open and really cared. Literally got his heart broken
Loved it!!! The ending left me with my mouth hanging open!!
Big abrupt end!
Why
We never have movies about kids harming their black dads who abandon them. But we can’t talk about that now can we?
Why does the gender matter so much to y’all? Point is abandoning kids you didn’t have to create in the first place is shitty, end of story
@@Las645 …it’s not the end of the story. All it takes is a little critical thinking on your end. A little less of an obtuse mindset goes a long way.
I just got done watching this movie, and I thought it was great.
I believe Ian died because he was White and seen as a threat, just like the bully on the basketball team.
He saw Ian as a threat and knew he was privileged due to the color of his skin.
He also wanted him to feel the same weight that people of color carry in our society by forcing him to hold up all the weight. This scene's symbolism can be seen when he says, “We are the same now.” This is a very symbolic scene that is hard to catch and hard to understand unless you rewatch it.
Wow excellent But it was still hard to see😥 but yea that's exactly what he meant Dam😔
I forgot even about the bully
Interesting take. he didn’t deserve to die tho
🤔 thanks
The same Ian that gave the only black girl in the town a job and wanted to get to know them better. He was a total victim.
Loved it!
I was like "oh cool they're going to subvert my expectations and she's going to redeem herself and die with the family or figure it out." 'Nope! But riding it!" SAVAGE! 😂😂. Now they're all strays.
I love when they do a "wrong decision" ending.
Ohhhh wow what a great explanation, so many things that I missed!
Glad it was helpful!
The second chapter of her pretend life was done.Her husband wanted the divorce her children were disappointed with her behavior towards her first family. The facade was over and those people no longer served the purpose she wanted them too. So she left her husband to die...i think she never loved him.she couldn't care less. He was purposeless if we didn't want to be married to her. And she left the children. all of them to reset her life. Change to a new scenario and maybe get away with being a new person all over again. She look at the mirror
before leaving.She was saying goodbye to her old self.she only loved herself and if not even that...she loved creating a pretend version of her.
I don’t think Dione or Carl will hurt Mary or her brother because she ditched all 4 of them lmao
I thought she was going to ask the delivery guy for help… when I heard engines, I was like “maybe she is going to bring the police”, then I saw words go up on the screen… I was like, wait! Did she just…😂😂😂
If there is a "THE STRAYS 2", it would probably be the same plot but this time, its not just 2 kids hunting her down, its 4
There isn't at the moment! But imagine if there is it will be about all 4 of them after her lol
Imagine all 4 go after her and they do find her but she outsmarts them again😂😂
I liked the movie. It explored many different themes, the intersection of class vs. race, colorism, micro and macro aggressions, what is considered family... Just to name a few. I wanted to know the story she can't telling about being abused which is why she said she left actually true. When she was talking to her first set of kids they asked why she did not take them...Maybe, they saw some of the abuse... However, her real reason for leaving is because she was tired of struggling when things get hard she flees. It did not matter her first set of kids were dark skin, her second set are mixed and very light and still left...
Yooo when sis realized it was over for Ian and she was probably next she apologized, got her wallet, her jacket and threw up (no pun intended) the ✌️ sign lol. I don't think they killed the kids though because now... they're all in the same boat 🤷🏾 movie had me POed the whole time in the best way 😂 😂 😂
They are also witnesses to the murder.
Loved the movie!!! And am not surprised by the ending at all!! This is something a person like her would do . Even the first time I don’t think jet husband was abusive. She just couldn’t handle the financial stress and bailed. One part I didn’t like was they didn’t have ti kill Ian. I mean he really didn’t know and he was upset by her actions too.
I really liked this movie and it seems like you really got it where a lot of other reviewers have not
Poor Ian. Out of all the despicable characters in this movie, he was the only one to get harmed and killed.
Yeah - and Ian wanted nothing to do with her in the end!
I think because he was the only one who wouldn’t make the family complete. Everyone was related to each other but him outside his biological kids. Eliminating him would of meant everyone else could be a “family”. Sick and twisted but hey they were traumatized severely.
White flight 🤔 lol it’s nice how they worked that conversation in there.
I can’t with the ending, too funny 😂
i really didnt expect the ending you explained this really good because i completely forgot the beginning of the movie
This movie was sad but man what a ride.
Yal remember when she looked in the mirror in the beginning an at the end I knew she was gone 🤣
Definitely!
I really loved this movie. I didn’t expect the ending tbh lol
It was abrupt, but kinda worked!
The ending of this movie threw me! Lol🙆🏾I didn't know what to do, think or say about it but to laugh and shake my head🤦🏽♂️😅🤣smh
Same here lol
This was interesting, I did not imagine it would end that way but still interesting. My assessment of the end is simply she refused to accept what she was and the kids were a constant reminder, and she had no interest in remaining connected to that part of her life.
She said best when she said men do it all the time. They do not do it all the time, but it is more common among men and they seem to turn out just fine with their new families, identities, and lives.
This heifer just bounced AGAIN!! Everybody a damn stray now 🤦🏽♀️😆😭
Why did Ian have to die?!?
True - he wanted nothing to do with it as well!
Been feeling that way since it happened! Like what was the point!!?! 😢
If a man is with a woman who refuses shame, accountability, and consequences he will experience 10x whatever was coming to her. This is an observable FACT of life.
Because he’s white.
Exactly?
I loved the song at the end
I love how it depicts the reality of black families and how black parents aren't inclined to stick around. It really shows the disgusting attitude of these people and the affect it has on their kids and the cycle it perpetuates. And it doesn't shy away from the violence of blacks against whites. As a white man i found this very enlightening. Brilliant film overall
That ending was I guess the best you could do tho .. because it's like you can't really blame Neve but you can't at all blame the other kids ... But who is gonna go to jail for the murder of Ian? Cuz I mean that did happen.
True, I think Carl will! On your other point, I totally get what you mean! I think the point was for the person you're rooting for to change quite frequently due to never really knowing who the 'bad person' was
you can blame neve she abandoned her children and never reached out.
I don’t think nobody is going to jail because Ian was working out 🏋🏽♀️ autopsy will reveal cause of death
@@ep8360 exactly! But tbh Ian was a very down yo earth person 😢
You can't blame Neve for: abandoning her children, gaslighting her own new family, lying to them repeatedly from the existence of those kids to her own real name to trying to pay them off behind her families back, to running off and abandoning her new family when the shame, accountability, and consequences of her actions appeared before her face?
Lol, if you have no moral compass you can't blame her. But I promise you this: if her character was a "him", the blame would be abundant.
This movie was so funny because it took itself so seriously but constantly led to bizarre and weird scenes. The ending even had comical timing with the terrible sound effect of the moped.
the ending was so unexpected lmaoooooo i loved it. old habits die hard I guess