Finished The Medium? Have absolutely no idea what just happened? After finally putting the mirror back together, Marianne meets Spirit Thomas. Lily is also a medium and when Richard hurt her, it awoke a dark, sinister spirit inside her. Something terrible that eventually got out. Spirit Thomas tells Marianne that Lily can still be saved, and the monster — The Maw — can still be stopped. She must find Lilianne at the lake. Upon finding Lilianne at the lake, Marianne explains that she wants to save her.
Thomas tells her he knows what she is, and claims Marianne is the only one who can help him. Marianne — wanting to figure out who this man is and what's going on — goes to Niwa, and spends most of the game searching both for Thomas and for Answers.
As events unfold at Niwa, Marianne is presented with visions of Thomas that help fill in some of his backstory. He, too, is a medium. He has the power to send a spirit version of himself into someone else's mind if they make skin-to-skin contact with him. The spirit version of Thomas became trapped in another man's mind, thus leading Thomas to try and devise some way to rescue him.
Marianne later frees the spirit version of Thomas, but after the game's credits, it is implied the real Thomas is somewhere in the spirit realm. When she first arrives at Niwa, Marianne meets the spirit of a young girl who calls herself Sadness. The girl goes by that name because she can't remember who she is, and sadness is all she has any recollection of.
Sadness serves as a helpful companion for Marianne, showing her the path forward toward completing various objectives. Sadness also leads Marianne to discover something truly terrible that happened in the little girl's past. Through visions, Marianne learns that Sadness's real name is Lily, and that Lily is the daughter of Thomas. Marianne also sees what happened to Lily as a child — her father's best friend, Richard, abused her.
After that incident took place, Thomas extracted revenge on Richard by entering his mind and destroying it, leaving him in a vegetative state.
The damage was done, however — the abuse stirred something dark inside Lily that later manifested into something deadly. In this tradition, shamans function as intermediaries between the physical and the spiritual world or the natural and supernatural world. This write-up is an attempt to explain some of the aspects of the film that requires more clarity. However, some of the events lack a straightforward explanation. The director Banjong Pisanthanakun leaves things on an ambiguous note.
This ambiguity opens the possibility for expanding the imagination of the viewers. According to Nim, there are good spirits as well as bad spirits, those who protect and those intent on causing harm. The calling of this ancestral deity has been passed down the female bloodline of her family for generations and she serves the villagers by helping cure those sufferings from unseen ailments or caused by supernatural manipulation.
Nim talks about her grandmother and her aunt who served as the shamaness of Ba Yan. Nim never wanted to become a shamaness and even attempted to take her own life to escape but she was unsuccessful, and at last, accepted the possession.
She has grown to like her life as a shamaness as it allows her to help people and gives her a special rank in the village. Nim makes frequent pilgrimages to the mountain where the sacred idol of Bayan is positioned to perform rituals and to pray to the goddess. She positively believes that she is a conduit and vessel for the goddess but there is no documented evidence of any miracles performed by Nim.
En route, she also witnesses a dead dog in the middle of the road, which in fact, serves as a forewarning for the ominous events to follow. Marianne meets a young girl spirit named Sadness, who helps Marianne make her way through the hotel. Thanks to The Medium 's dual-reality gameplay mechanic , players are able to explore both the real world version of the Niwa Hotel as well as the spirit world version while they follow Sadness around.
Sadness is a mostly benevolent spirit, but there is another being in the Niwa Hotel that is not. The Maw, a hulking monstrosity voiced by Troy Baker that relentlessly pursues Marianne whenever it sniffs her out in the spirit world, desperately wants to take over Marianne's "skin.
During her investigation, Marianne starts to learn more about Sadness and Thomas, who was a medium himself. Marianne has visions that lead her to some startling revelations. For one, Sadness is actually Marianne's supposedly deceased sister Lilianne, or Lily. Not only that, but Thomas is her biological father, and he was equipped with some unique medium abilities.
For instance, whereas Marianne is in control of both her real body and her spirit body at the same time, the spirit version of Thomas had a completely separate personality and consciousness from the "real" version of Thomas. It seems as though when Marianne was born, her mother died in childbirth. The family lived at a house in the woods not far from the Niwa Hotel , but the Soviet government became aware of Thomas's special abilities.
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