Holland
Warning : major spoilers for Prime Video ’s Holland .
Prime Video’sHollandis a psychological thriller that take viewers to the rubric town , but the report ’s bend and reveals left some giving questions and a couple of plot hole . Directed by Mimi Cave , Hollandis pose in the small Midwestern town of the same name , located in Michigan , and followsNancy Vandergroot ( Nicole Kidman ) , a teacher , the married woman of optometrist Fred Vandergroot(Matthew Macfayden ) , and the mother of 13 - twelvemonth - previous Harry ( Jude Hill ) . The Vandergroots survive a seemingly well-chosen and perfect life until Nancy begins to mistrust Fred is cheating on her .
Nancy turns to fellow teacher Dave ( Gael García Bernal ) for support and help in find out if Fred really is cheating on her or not . In the process , Nancy and Dave fall for each other , and together , they make a distressful find about Fred that goes way further than screw on his married woman : Fred is a serial killer and has been targeting women in town around Holland for years , disguising these trips as oeuvre - relate ones . Hollandhas a couple more twists after that reveal , but they all provide some freehanded query about the characters , their futures , and more .
9What Happened To Nancy Before She Met Fred?
Nancy Mentions Her Past A Couple Of Times
Hollandmostly takes place in the title town , with some scenes localize in nearby towns as Nancy and Dave follow Fred on his guess “ work trip . ” This gives a claustrophobic feel to the level , as if Nancy could never escape the town – and yet , she ’s very comfortable last in Holland . At the start ofHollandand at other points in the movie , Nancy mentions that Fred saved her and brought her to Holland , where she found a home and a community .
Nancy only mentions that she add up from a pocket-sized town and that ’s it , but Holland is also a small town , so in that sense , it ’s not exactly an rise .
However , it ’s never mentioned just what was going on with Nancy before meeting Fred that makes her say she was “ rescue . ”Nancy only mentions that she add up from a modest town and that ’s it , but Holland is also a small town , so in that sensory faculty , it ’s not incisively an upgrade . mayhap Nancy had a unmanageable upbringing and untested years , butHollandnever go into it .
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8What Happened To Candy After Nancy Suspended Her?
Holland Begins With Nancy Confronting Candy
Hollandbegins with Nancy confronting Candy ( Rachel Sennott ) , Harry ’s babysitter . Nancy implies that she catch Candy thievery , to which Candy immediately confess and says she has a food job and sleep together it so much . Candy admits to taking bacon that was hypothesize to be for Harry and is truly gloomy for what she did , but that ’s not what Nancy is talking about . Nancy finds out that one of her earrings is missing , and she ’s sure that Candy steal it , which she deny . Nancy does n’t believe her , and narrate her to not come back until she ’s quick to be honest , and that upset Harry .
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confect is n’t attend again inHolland , and Harry bring up her again when he complains to his mother about how much she has “ ruined ” his life . Nancy finally get hold the missing earring among the many buttons she keeps , with no approximation of how it get there – butCandy does n’t reelect , and it ’s unknown what happen to her .
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7What Did Dave Do Before Arriving In Holland?
Dave Has A Difficult Past
Nancy and Dave work at the same school and they are supporter , so much so that Nancy confides in him her suspiciousness about Fred ’s likely infidelity and convinces him to help her break up into his office at night . It ’s later reveal that Fred go far in Holland not long ago , and when he tries to back out from helping Nancy break into Fred ’s authority , he mentions having a history with the law .
Dave ’s past is one of the bad thingsHollandsimply mentions and never hold out into . It ’s obscure where Dave lived before moving to Holland , why he moved there , and what his past problems with the jurisprudence are . While these do n’t really affect his story in the picture show , they are observe , and that ’s enough to set off curiosity .
6How Did Fred Survive His Fight With Dave?
Fred Shouldn’t Have Survived That
When Dave and Nancy add up clean about their feelings for each other , Dave panics as he feels it ’s awry due to Nancy being tie . Dave distances himself from Nancy for a while until she yell him to say she ’s set to pull up stakes Fred . Dave tells her he can get the proof of his infidelity so she wo n’t feel bad about leave him . Dave and Nancy end up follow Fred to a nearby township as he go on yet another study head trip , but Nancy has to return to Holland to pick Harry up .
Dave continues to follow Fred and catches him dispatch a untried woman at her habitation . Fred sees Dave recording him , and they fight . Dave stabs Fred with his own tongue and tries to get away on a boat in the lake , but Fred arrest up to him and the fight continues .
day afterwards , Fred shows up at Holland , without account on how he survived not just the stabbing but being underwater for so long .
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Dave deplume the knife out of Fred ’s abdominal cavity and he falls into the lake , with Dave convinced that he drown . daytime afterwards , Fred shows up at Holland , without account on how he survived not just the stabbing but being subaqueous for so long – at least recollective enough for Dave to get up , get the camera , and leave , and not get caught .
5What Happened To Dave After Being Injured?
Where Did Dave Go?
Dave gets very paranoid after “ kill ” Fred and has nightmares about Fred ’s endurance and the murdered cleaning lady ’s dogs licking her rip from the level . Dave is in the end ripe as Fred live and returns to Holland , but before he reveal himself to Nancy , she get with Harry to a motel for their safety machine . Dave follows them and tells Nancy they should call the law , butshe crusade him to get the earpiece out of his handwriting and a television receiver drops on his head , injuring him .
When Nancy kills Fred , she hark back to the motel room , but Dave is gone .
When Nancy calls Harry for assistance , she finds him with Fred , and for the next few minutes , Hollandfocuses on Nancy , Fred , and Harry , while Dave lies injured in the motel room . When Nancy kill Fred , she returns to the motel room , but Dave is depart . In the final voiceover atthe end ofHolland , Dave advert his feeling of lonesomeness and being invisible , and how it all changed when he met Nancy , but also question if it was all substantial . It ’s unknown what happens to Dave after being murder with the TV , but he credibly left town .
4Do Nancy & Harry Leave Holland?
Nancy & Harry’s Future Isn’t Clear
Nancy find safety gadget in Holland when she moved there after meeting Fred and has stay on in townsfolk ever since . Nancy became part of the community and never testify interest in depart . However , know what Fred had done , how he used his township modeling to keep track of the people he had kill , and everything that happened at the motel , it would be enough for her to leave Holland with Harry so they could start fresh . Even the final voiceover has Nancy saying she find a way out , but it ’s undecipherable if she and Harry depart .
When Dave tells Nancy that they can last be together and allow , Nancy panics and uses the upcoming Tulip Festival as an exculpation for not leaving Holland , as well as Harry having his whole life there . It ’s improbable , then , that Nancy and Harry left Holland after the motion-picture show ’s termination , and or else , they just move on the best way they could .
3How Will Nancy Explain Fred’s Death?
Fred Was Well-Known In Town
As mentioned above , Fred is a well - jazz man in Holland thanks to his caper as an optometrist . Because of this , explain or just excuse his death would be quite tricky , more so if Nancy does n’t want his law-breaking to be known . Fred ’s death ca n’t be regale as an accident as he ’s shot and later trounce with a geta to destruction , though it ’s all in self - defense – but then again , give his image of a upright household man and if his crimes are n’t expose , Nancy could face up big bother .
2Will Fred’s Crimes Ever Be Exposed?
Fred’s Crimes Aren’t Exposed In Holland
On the topic of Fred ’s death , the large question is whether his offense will be exposed or not . When Dave evidence Nancy that Fred wo n’t be bothering her anymore and they are now free to be together and move on , Nancy say they will plainly ignore what Fred did and obliterate it , as they always do . It ’s quite possible that this continued to be Nancy ’s stance on Fred ’s dark two-fold life after his death , though , turn over that his death could be mark as “ suspicious ” , if there was a proper investigation , it would all come to light .
This would patently affect Nancy and Harry , especially as Holland is a diminished Ithiel Town , and their unagitated life-style would whole switch . Hollanddoesn’t give any speck of what would happen with Fred ’s dark arcanum after his dying , but no matter what , it ’s fair to say Nancy and Harry wo n’t recover from all of it presently .
1Why Is Holland So Special?
Holland Is Just A Small Town
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The world is that Holland is far from being an idyllic , calm , perfect township .
give the title , the opening sequence , and all those multiplication Nancy talk about her life in Holland and how Fred rescue her and ask her there , one would wait the movie to go deeper into what makes the town so special … but it never does . Nancy name the tulips , the windmill , and the tight residential district , but the reality is that Holland is far from being an idyllic , unagitated , perfect town . The house physician of Holland are nosy , intolerant , rude , aggressive , and racist , the latter seen in how Dave is targeted for being Mexican .
It would n’t be surprising if the townsfolk of Holland kept many other dark secrets besides Fred ’s , with the close and happy community being nothing more than a frontage . It ’s also a mystery why Dave choose to move to Holland , specially after seeing how aggressive its residents can be , so the town is nothing more than an illusion of beau ideal and residential area .
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