Color me thoroughly unsurprised that an arrogant, aggressive young man in his late teens who is in love with his own narcissistic "sensitivity" is actually some red pill dork that is going to kidnap his mom's lesbian friends' daughter and try to force her to join the sort of white supremacy cult that conservatives that dropped out of college talk about on the Internet. This entire movie is a metaphor for the alt-right, and it's well-written up to a certain point. I put up with the odious young man for an hour and fifteen minutes until he proved me right, simply wondering what the mystery was. You can skip this one unless you're a folk horror completist or some kind of radfem masochist.
The boy is grotesquely hateable as a character from beginning to end. This isn't about "familial trauma" it's about patriarchal tribal garbage and dumb white guys who think they're vikings.
In fact, the more I think about what is wrong with this movie and what is so annoying about the way the MAN is written is that he's infantalized as though he's a 12 year old. The young man is 18 possibly even 19 and no one is slapping him across the face or telling him to shut up when he yells about how great his violently abusive daddy was or when he gets uppity towards his mom's boyfriend. The entire flaw in the film is that his behavior is not excusable for a man his age, it would be more understandable in a 13 or 14 year old at most. No one punishes him or suspects him of being an intellectually deficient weirdo. ...except the audience? Bad writing.
The boy is grotesquely hateable as a character from beginning to end. This isn't about "familial trauma" it's about patriarchal tribal garbage and dumb white guys who think they're vikings.
In fact, the more I think about what is wrong with this movie and what is so annoying about the way the MAN is written is that he's infantalized as though he's a 12 year old. The young man is 18 possibly even 19 and no one is slapping him across the face or telling him to shut up when he yells about how great his violently abusive daddy was or when he gets uppity towards his mom's boyfriend. The entire flaw in the film is that his behavior is not excusable for a man his age, it would be more understandable in a 13 or 14 year old at most. No one punishes him or suspects him of being an intellectually deficient weirdo. ...except the audience? Bad writing.
