Is this a Sick Movie or What?
Really, this family is the scum de la scum. And we are supposed to identify with them.
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You must be a saint if you don't have any dark corners of your mind or bad impulses you just manage to stop. These folks just didn't have any inhibition in their mental faculties, or it was severely hampered by their upbringing. They never seemed alien to me in that regard, but maybe that's just me.
"what is your major malfunction, NUMBNUTS?!!"
Yup, it has been one TMC & Showtime all month!
Believe me, I am no saint and have plenty of sick thoughts too. There are plenty of people I would love to blast too. But this movie crossed a line. Maybe I just don't get into to a couple of clever scumbags wandering around the country murdering random innocent people at will, especially teenage girls. Okay, the flick was a cut above the average exploitation flick, but that made it even worse,
What are they doing? Why do they come here?
Some kind of instinct, memory, what they used to do.
The movie to me wasn't about grossing you out for the sake of making you sick. its an exploration of human nature, and beyond that, about the struggle between order and chaos.
Piggy Banks made me question the amount of will-power we truly have (and we have much less than we think) over our subconscious pull-push, like in those moments the main character puzzled over killing Kelly Garner...she became precious to him yet he simply couldn't stop himself from behaviour that had become too engrained.It made me think of the frailty of human life, the risk we take when we decide to be trusting of others, the random estimation of the worth of human life when it comes to people.
Then there is the order-chaos element,one is never completely without the other, and life is about the pendulum swinging back and forth between each. In reality You'll see people from awful backgrounds work exceedingly hard to overcompensate the sin of their forebears leading strictly disciplined lives only then see their catholic schoolgirl rush off to become strippers, while others continue to crash and burn until they take themselves out of existence. We get to see both happen in the movie; From the sister erasing the past (but introducing the seeds of evil into herself) to the brothers taking one too many risks. The main character even tries to reconcile himself directly by pitting himself against the lottery and God, and found himself to be the antithesis of order.
All in all this was not a movie made for cheap thrills, there is an artistic message there.
"what is your major malfunction, NUMBNUTS?!!"
I respect your defense of the movie and your insights. The movie was a cut or two above the average exploitation movie and did have some interesting angles to it. But that scene where they killed the 2 teeny boppers then the older woman, who had become sort of a friend, was a real turn off.
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