OK, this is a great horror flick - but what bugs me is she leaves a young child on his own most of the time. Not being familiar with Japanese culture is this the norm or something?
In most westernized countries the social care would get involved.
They are not a "normal" family, if you see the first scene between the father and son, they are under the rain, they look at each other nobody speaks.
The kid is left alone (and he's very mature, assertive and independent, if you notice) because his mother is divorced and has a job, even if her colleagues say the bosses don't want to overload her because they know her situation.
Now, my parents weren't divorced but they both worked and even not at the age of the protagonist it was natural for me when I was nine or ten to go shopping for the family, and as far as I remember my mother never brought me to school, I took the bus or walked even at the age of the kid.
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No, he wasn't. He was left with his grandfather. It takes a village. Very common in Western culture. So why the weird comparison?
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