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The Children Were Annoying Brats (spoiler alert, blah blah)


Any real children in that weird scenario would have been rather dark and emotionally disturbed, especially having just lost both parents, even if they weren't all that familiar with them (since it seemed like the never-seen parents traveled abroad a lot). The kids in this movie had no depth of character. They were just 2 annoying, always smiling, gullible brats who had a strange view of death all because some drunk weirdo they idolized told them things. And most of what he said was utter horse shizz. The kids should really have been the focal point of the movie since they were the ones misunderstanding grown-up things and doing all the mimicked violence. I felt a little apprehension when they were acting out the bondage scene & didn't quite understand what they had seen or what it meant, but by the end of the movie I was well sick of their goofy grins and the inability of either one of them to emote anything else other than misconstrued, smiley fascination with adult affairs. They didn't have a shred of common sense and while they may have lacked comprehension about the weight of their deeds and what it actually meant to take someone's life because they had not been properly schooled for lack of parental attention/care, I wasn't buying their goofy demeanor one bit. 2 very empty characters who didn't even come off as slightly dangerous in a prank kind of manner, as some "evil" kids in scary movies should. When the kid shoots Brando in the head with an arrow he barely looks any different than the scene where he asks for more prunes. The sister is equally emotionally bare.

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