A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath. A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger's van. No help for miles.

Overall, No Exit is a strong thriller by Adams...but while the story moves fast enough to read in one sitting, there are a few minor flaws worth pointing out. For one thing, Jay, who is said to be nine years old, acts mature beyond her years, and not necessarily in an endearing, street-smart kind of way.

But anywho, if you liked No Exit, here are a few other books with a similar vibe that you should check out: Fear Is the Rider by Kenneth Cook. One by One by Ruth Ware. Falling by TJ Newman.

No Exit is a 2022 American thriller film directed by Damien Power from a screenplay by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Taylor Adams.

"No Exit" is primarily a plea for the evolvement of a true human morality, for stringent self-examination on the part of every individual and the assumption of an attitude of moral responsibility toward his acts and his thoughts.

Human Interaction, Control, and Sense of Self In No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre suggests that true misery comes from the human inability to control the nature of one's own existence.

No Exit, as an intense and compressed dramatic parable, presents the core existential truth that each individual must ultimately face self-truth and consequence, forced to an inescapable encounter with others who provide the measure for moral judgment.

Themes See All

• Isolation.
• Lies and Deceit.
• Philosophical Viewpoints: Existentialism.
• Freedom and Confinement.
• Suffering.
• Power.
• Life, Consciousness, Existence.
• Courage.

Direct, clipped. That's right. There's no beating around the bush, for Sartre or for his characters. Of course we can't forget that we're dealing with a translation, but still, the majority of text is short, clipped dialogue, almost a Q and A form.

According to this expression the space is closed in two ways: just as no one can exit, no new person can enter. The three characters in Sartre's play are both attending and starring in their own sold-out show. The only difference is that this performance never ends.

John Erick Dowdle, known for several horror films, and who wrote the script with his brother, Drew Dowdle, was set to direct the film. The two brothers based the script on a near-miss of political upheaval when the Dowdle family were going on a trip to Thailand, in real life.

The windows are bricked up; there are no mirrors; the electric lights can never be turned off; and there is no exit. The irony of this hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned.

The absence of a mirror is significant: It prevents the characters from being able to see themselves with an object; thus, they are forced to see themselves through other people's impressions about them. This places more importance on one's inner self-image than on the details of facial makeup, hair, and so on.

One's life is a constant battle to make choices within the vast possibilities of an indifferent universe, and precisely because of this radical freedom every choice is one that you must take ultimate responsibility for making - you're “condemned to be free.” The characters in No Exit may be dead, but the tremendous ...

Mirrors. The drawing-room's lack of mirrors represents Sartre's interest in how perception influences a person's sense of self. Unable to check her reflection, Estelle feels existentially amiss, as if her mere existence depends upon her ability…

No Escape is rated R by the MPAA for strong violence including a sexual assault, and for language. This additional information about the movie's content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards: Violence: - Frequent non-graphic violence.