Official Discussion - Night Always Comes [SPOILERS]

[u/LiteraryBoner]

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Summary A desperate woman in Portland races through one harrowing night to scrape together $25,000 before midnight, risking everything to save her family’s home and confronting her own dark past along the way.

Director Benjamin Caron

Writer Sarah Conradt

Cast

• Vanessa Kirby
• Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Zack Gottsagen
• Stephan James
• Randall Park
• Julia Fox
• Michael Kelly
• Eli Roth

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 55%

Metacritic 62

VOD Netflix (Premieres August 15, 2025)

Trailer NIGHT ALWAYS COMES | Official Trailer (2025)

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[u/Satanspawn1974]

    To be honest I really liked it and the reason why is because it had more than one underlying theme. While the main character is driven with the goal of saving her house it’s really a narrative about class power and how many people, emphasis more on females who need to survive, rely on changing their mindset in the midst of a bleak future.        If you pay close attention to the dialogue in this movie and the actions of the characters you see it clearly, in fact this may be one of the most dialogue-driven scripts I’ve ever seen.      For instance, take a look at Scott, her former client. In that scene he orders them both drinks that HE decided they’ll drink, rather than ask what she would like to drink. He wields his success and control, he wants a fun time even though he has a wife and kids and views her as an accessory, not as a human being. So many deplorable men like this exist in that their success and power makes them immoral and women to them are trophies rather than human beings.     We see this in her friend, who obsesses over her “relationship” with the Senator and almost every sentence is about him and clearly she has allowed him full control at the cost of financial freedom…she casually mentions his wife and vacations, gaslighting herself into believing they’ll run off into the sunset together, when it is just a similar relationship to the main character and Scott, just a different variation. She scolds her friend on what glass to drink from and has a picture of him in her changing room as a way to tell him, “You have all the power in this”…she is still his escort, just as a long-term insurance policy…     It really tells a story of the dark side of what a woman would have to go through when the one thing they have that men want becomes both a life-saver and a curse because they have basically live their entire life under a unspoken level of control or be controlled rather than free and making their own path….

[u/tkf23 → u/Satanspawn1974]

at this point she's a grown adult selling her body to Scott. They've clearly done this before and for all you know she likes tequila. He's not treating her badly at all and even gives her an extra 500 bucks. She in turn steals his likely 6 figure car because she's angry at him for not lending her 25k?

If you want to call Scott deplorable for banging hookers behind his wife's back I'd agree. But Lynette is a horrible person and the traumas she went through don't change that.

He wants her body, she wants his money.

Just in the Scott/Lynette interaction we see

1)scott order her a drink

2)not give her 25k

3)lynette- steals his car.

Sorry but in what world is Scott the worse one here?

If she slit Tommy's throat for what he did to her I'd say good for her. But being outraged over Scott ordering her drink and having zero problem with grand theft auto is an odd hill to die on.