Karen's family is a very scary, suffocating group.
Indeed. I think the location the filmmakers chose to serve as their home went a long way toward increasing that sense. So many people in such a small, cramped, claustrophobic space -- in contrast to how bright and open the house had been where the group had been hanging out.
They seemed supportive before her husband hit her. That's the problem, that her husband hit her and that they did nothing. Before that, I think they(the family excluding the husband) were just happy to have her back and would have gotten over Karen disappearing if she had been willing to open up to them.
Supportive? I'd say they seemed more indifferent - or maybe annoyed, so annoyed that they expressed it as feigned indifference - rather than supportive. When Karen's sister tells the teenage girl who I assume is Karen's niece that Karen has returned, the girl says to Karen, "What do you want?" As if to say,
Yeah, well, we were worried about you before, but we're over it now and could not care less what's going on with you.
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