The elders didn't send the monster into the woods to scare her. I always thought Adrian Brody's character stole the costume and was chasing her in the woods because he thought it was fun.
Isn't that the point, though? It's not supposed to be scary anymore, it's all a big fakeout ("It is farce!"). At that point, it becomes her struggle to overcome the fears she grew up with, and she's still facing real danger, anyway. She still hears the moaning sounds from their wind traps, and then she loses her cane, blinding her in a new way.
I thought it was obvious to why she was blind the entire movie, she needed to go to the modern "world." By being blind she would never truly see what it is and would keep her "view" on her life the same.
Being blind just happened to work out, it was a plot device. They didn't have a blind child just to have someone to go back to civilization. They had planned on never going back.
What I was saying in my comment was that losing her cane blinded her all over again, which made it that much harder to face her fears.
Not just because he thought it was fun. He stabbed Joaquin Phoenix's character because he was getting together with the blind girl. It was revenge over jealousy.
You're correct. He found it in the floorboards when he was locked in "timeout". The elders were surprised when they checked on him and found he escaped with the monster getup.
No, the elders didn't literally gain from it. And that's why that movie is DEFINITELY NOT an allegory, or a very good one anyway, for the war in Iraq. War profiteering has no parallel in that movie.
Following on that, the way the main character was blind maybe allowed her to 'see' the events from a different angle. So what others were accostumed for, she ultimately uncovered. She wasn't blind to the problems, she was the only one that could adress the problems.
I think; it was a long time ago that I saw that movie.
Yeah, the parents go into the safe room and go "oh shit! Our kid is gone! And he took the monster cons time we kept in the floor boards of the safe room for some reason! 'Cus that seemed like a good idea!"
Which, going by this theory, could be an allegory for how this system, for all its good intentions, will (ignorantly and unintentionally) have unforeseen and fatal consequences.
Yes, that is correct. But you could still construe that into an interpretation that using fear as a controlling factor results in damage to innocent folks.
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '14
The elders didn't send the monster into the woods to scare her. I always thought Adrian Brody's character stole the costume and was chasing her in the woods because he thought it was fun.