"Take your left hand, place it on the nearest wall and walk - it's the simplest way to solve most mazes."
—John
Exit is a 2011 science fiction/drama/artistic film from Australia, directed by Marek Polgar.
There is a group of people living in the city who are convinced it is actually a maze. These people search, hold meetings, build models, and compare maps. One woman thinks she has found the exit.
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Tropes in this film
- All for Nothing: Alice finally gets into the door she has spent the movie pursing and it's just an abandoned building, as John said.
- Book Ends: One of the early scenes in the film has Alice writing on the window of a vacant office. The final scene is a woman seeing the remnants of those markings once the office is occupied.
- No Antagonist: This is just people struggling with themselves.
- No Ending: You never learn if the people are crazy or not. You never see Alice enter the new door she has located.
- No Fourth Wall: The characters will often stop and speak directly to the viewer.
- The Maze: What the city is believed to be by the characters.
- Muggles: How some of the people searching for the exit feel about everyday people.
- One-Word Title
- Parental Abandonment: David has left his wife and children due to his obsession.
- Remember the New Guy?: Tom kind of comes into the movie fully formed and accepted by Alice - he even gets to talk to the camera some, and then he leaves as swiftly as he came.
- Room Full of Crazy: Everyone seems to have a book, wall or full room of this.
- Sell-Out: Tom accuses Grace of doing this because she got herself a proper job and stopped searching.
