"They always were going to come out on top, but the way in which they did it always shifted. I just wanted you to hear them, and feel them, and see that they're just real women who aren't action heroes, but who are just trying to save themselves and save each other. "When they start fighting in the kitchen, I took out all the music in the first half of that scene. "The ending was always really fast and chaotic because that's what that really would be like, and I wanted it to feel like it would be in real life in terms of the action scenes," Cave explains. According to Cave, it was always going to end with Noa escaping but the sequences were constantly shifting while making the movie. It's a finale where you're never quite sure if Fresh is going to go down the cathartic route of having the good guys win or end on a bleaker twist. Mollie saves Noa by attacking Ann with a shovel and bludgeoning her to death. Their battle for survival isn't over, though, as Ann arrives and starts to strangle Noa when she sees Steve's body. Noa rescues Mollie and Penny, yet Steve isn't finished yet and a bloody battle ensues that starts in the house and ends in the woods where Noa shoots Steve dead. She pretends that she wants to sleep with Steve, but bites into his crown jewels instead. During another date night, Noa sees the mementoes that Steve has kept from his former (and current) victims, including Mollie's mobile phone. Shortly after Mollie is captured and taken to the house, Noa puts into action her next escape attempt. Unfortunately for Mollie, Steve's wife Ann (Charlotte Le Bon) knows exactly who her husband really is, potentially because it's implied that she was a former victim who maybe escaped her predicament in a similar way to Noa's current attempt. After not hearing from her, Mollie investigates and goes to Steve's actual home where she realises he's a) married and b) actually called Brendan. "I think that was something that we did want to touch on a little bit without getting too into it, and really staying in the story between Steve and Noa." The bloody finaleīy the time Noa is trying to escape by winning Steve over, her friend Mollie is unwittingly a fellow captive at Steve's place. People who do horrible things, and have a lot of wealth and ability to move in the world in a way that they don't get caught. "There is the feeling of there are people out there who are the 1%, or the 1% of the 1%, and can ask for – and get – crazy shit, and no one ever says anything or calls them out. "I think, in a lot of ways, so many things in this film are giant symbols or metaphors and also serve as a sense of reality, so it's a very strange world to be playing in," she continues. Cave noted that no version of the movie had more backstory for them, but the creative team "had our own understanding" of them. We get flashes of who they are and see them tucking into their messed-up dishes (especially in one striking credits scene), yet their identities and motives are left unexplored. However, these people remain mysterious to us. The focus in Fresh remains on Noa's plight, but we do also see Steve carry out his, erm, job by preparing the various bits of human meat for his clients. We went through a lot of food auditions and iterations of different dishes to make it happen." Who does Steve sell human meat to? "So we got pretty creative with different ingredients to add a glisten to certain things or add a certain colour to a dish. "We designed all the dishes with a chef to look real enough, and familiar enough, to be recognisable, but have just a tinge of bizarreness to them, to feel like, 'Wait, does it look appetising?'. The worrying thing for a viewer is that much like Hannibal made things look tastier than they should, Fresh does exactly the same – and that was exactly the point. On a 'date', Steve persuades Noa to eat some human meat (which he stocks in his home in a massive freezer, naturally). Aware that Steve does still fancy her, she decides to seduce him instead and make him think she's into the cannibalism. Unsurprisingly, this makes Noa change approach. She's unsuccessful though, and as a punishment he cuts off Noa's buttocks. Noa befriends a fellow captive called Penny (Andrea Bang) who she can communicate with through the joint wall of their cells, and when Steve takes her for a shower, Noa tries to escape. As a plastic surgeon, Steve can take parts of Noa and keep her alive. Steve doesn't kill Noa or the other women he captures, at least not straight away, as he wants to keep the "meat fresh". He's not doing it totally for his own consumption, as he also sells it to wealthy clients who want to eat it too. Steve is no typical creep though – he harvests human meat. Shortly after Noa arrives at Steve's luxury home, she's drugged by her new lover and wakes up chained to the ground in a room that is essentially a well-designed cell.
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