The beginning scene; what has it got to do with the rest of the film?
How is the beginning, the Dad getting injured and the bugs in the grass, relevant to the rest of the movie?
shareThe benevolent patriarchal authority collapses and during the rest of the film, it's in danger of being replaced - for Jeffrey - by the malevolent patriarchal authority in the shape of the violent pervert Frank Booth (symbolized by the bugs beneath the grass).
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
Cool. I guess there are a few interpretations, and that is one of them? One i thought of was that underneath the healthy looking society there are evil running around (AKA Frank), symbolised by nasty bugs running around under the healthy looking yard.
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Another meaning could be that bad things happen to good people. Jeffrey's Dad falls over ill for no reason. But at the end of the movie he's OK again, like Dorothy and Jeffrey, it ends well, they get through it.