Analogy of teenage rebellion?

Did anyone feel like the movie was making subtle or blatant analogies to teenage rebellion against parents who dictate their children's lives through religion and tradition?

A few scenes came to mind:

* Iris having sex with Anders, very rebellious despite she understands how much of a danger he is to her family in regards to what he could learn.

* Iris and Rose realising after their kill and carve that they do not want to live like this and deciding their father could not make them.

* Rose changing her hair style, from near and innocent to wild and very untamed.

* Rose being reluctant to eat the meat.

* Rory (not a teen but a valid point anyway) defiantly going into the barn regardless of being warned not to.

* Rory eats something from the table during their fast despite knowing he shouldn't. He's told to spit it out and he doesn't as far as I could see.

* Iris jumping in front of her fathers aim to the doctor, very defiant.

* The ending where the two girls cannibalise their father, the ultimate rebellion, the final act that ensures that he cannot make them life the life they do not want to.



Interestingly enough, in the end Rose is seen sitting with the book about their family's grisly past, which seems to symbolise that sense of guilt we all have at one point or another as a teen when we defy our parents. I got the feeling they would still eat flesh, just like many rebellious teens sometimes occasionally end up on the path they strayed from under their parents thumb.


Interesting movie.