Shyamalan’s The Visit is a thriller movie of 2015 revolving
around the week-long vacation of two children in the house of their
grandparents whom they have not yet seen. One of the interesting characters in
the film is Becca, the older of the two.
One of Becca’s passions is in film making. Because of
that, she made a documentary focusing on the visit. Tyler, the younger brother
of Becca, has been her assistant in the documentary. While making the
documentary, she found out that her mother left her grandparents’ house because
of a dispute which her mother did not want to discuss. The argument was the cause
of the non-communication of the two parties. This knowledge encouraged her more
to make the documentary in order to have a closure to this unresolved problem.
It seems that she became obsessed with the idea to make something right in
their family despite their father leaving them.
At the start, it is
noticeable that Becca is likely to turn a blind eye to something wrong with their
family. Even when her Nana, the grandmother, has been doing weird and scary
things, like the time when she ordered her to go inside the oven or when she
“accidentally” put cookie batter on her laptop’s camera, she did not want to
admit there was something wrong and just dismissed the idea. Again, this may be
because she wanted to view her family nearly as perfect as possible.
Later in the movie, it was said that Becca never
looked in the mirror after their father left. Tyler sees it as a sign that she
sees herself as worthless. She then revealed that she never forgave their
father for leaving them. This may be the reason why she wanted reconciliation
for her mom and her grandparents. Because she herself cannot forgive, she
became preoccupied with making things right.
Towards the end of the film, it was revealed that their
grandparents have tried to communicate with their mother long before the visit.
Their mother said reconciliation was possible if she wanted to. Tyler was even
able to make fun of what happened through a rap. This last part was a lesson
for Becca – she only has to learn how to forgive.
