I'm a pretty logical person, and it's difficult for me to watch movies that don't make sense. Do these kids not realize that they'll eventually become adults too? Would they turn on each other? Or do they kill adults because they're nonbelievers? If that's the case then why wouldn't Burt and Vicki pretend to believe?
I'm sorry, but I'm just trying to understand.
That's the whole point of the story, though. They send the older "kids" out into the corn (to die) when they get too old. At 18, right? IT's been a long time since I've seen the original (I was disappointed to watch the remake more recently, it was HORRIBLE) but don't they try to get the teen girls to have babies to keep their population up before they reach the age where they kill them? That's the whole basis of their "religion." Well, that and corn.
shareThere's no mention of having children in the original movie.
shareIn the remake it shows two of the older kids having sex to make more children while the younger ones jump up and down watching in joy. The boy's 19th birthday is coming up so it implies he will die soon in the end. Nothing like that in this movie, though.
shareThe girl who was about to drink Amos' blood and argued with Burt was clearly pregnant. You can see a few other pregnant girls as well.
shareThere is also a crying baby in one scene, which implies that the children are having babies. Perhaps they were afraid to have any explicit references to this aspect of the story.
shareOUTLANDER!
shareDo these kids not realize that they'll eventually become adults too? Would they turn on each other?
But it makes perfect sense, their God in the corn field is a deity. They do what it wants them too which means sacrificing themselves once they reach 19 years old. If they're fine with doing that then how does it not make sense? If Vicki & Burt pretended to be believers the next step would've been for them to sacrifice themselves to He Who Walks Behind The Rows.
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