Film Shimmer Lake

Introduce Movie Shimmer Lake to Winston Schmidt in New Girl

Hey Winston Schmidt, I know you are the wealthiest person within your roommates, I doubt that you never worried about money in your life. I would like to introduce a Netflix original movie whose main clue is money to you. It is a thriller and suspense film about how a sheriff revenged for his illegitimate young son and ‘robbed’ the bank without being suspected.

The movie was narrated from the end, which makes the story more interesting. Unlike some flashback movie, which required you to have a strong logic, the director made this movie easy to be understood by splitting it into different days and well labeled. If the movie was told by chronological order, the movie would be tasteless.

The story started from Friday, and went back to Tuesday. Each day had a data label with a short description of the day. On Friday, the sheriff Zeke’s brother got the money and was killed when he met Steph Burton the prime culprit’s wife in the Shimmer Lake. The only information about the shooter was an arm with obvious tattoo. Zeke talked to his little nephew that he was going to wash the dirty people, who made mistakes, in this town which turned out be very ironic in the end of the movie. The story was a little confusing on Friday.  

On the Thursday, the story got a little clearer that Zeke’s brother got the money from the Judge, who was the owner of the bank they robbed. A young naked boy shew up in Judge’s house which explained why Judge was menaced by the prime culprit Ed Burton, and caused the death of Judge indirectly. On that day, there were couple flashback of the Little Ed. who died in a fire in Ed Burton’s drug lab near the Shimmer Lake, which was significant to the whole story.  

On the Wednesday, the movie talked about how the other partner was killed by Steph Burton indirectly. Steph asked the Judge to take care of the bag of money otherwise she would leak the male Judge’s tape with young naked boy. So far the story was pretty clear, but it was still unclear that where Ed Burton went.

On the last day, or the first day, the whole story was uncovered. Ed Burton got the bank code and got the money with the help from Zeke, the sheriff who looked like a very decent person. After Ed got the money, Steph shew up and told him about the truth that little Ed was Zeke’s son not Ed’s. Zeke killed Ed and hurt his arm deliberately to confuse people. A same tattoo appeared on Zeke’s arm, which was saying that it was Zeke killed his own brother. Staph buried Ed in the Shimmer Lake and started their plan to kill whoever evolved in this case.  

The story was very clear if we start from the end of the movie. One interesting about the movie was that, these people used to be good friends. Because of little Ed and money, Zeke and Staph killed all of them including Zeke’s brother. I knew you something have conflict with your roommates and friends, but you are lucky that no one wanted to kill you.