It was weird seeing all three of them together by the lake in one scene and nobody said a word??? Not even while riding their bikes together. Anyone explain?
shareTo add an element of forced creepiness. It was lame and contrived.
sharethe texting and not speaking to each other...that part was actually realistic. lol. i've seen girls/guys around their age literally sitting right next to each other and they were having conversations texting but never saying a word to each other. it was eye opening and kind of sad that that is how many younger people communicate to each other these days.
sharebroad City has a whole episode about it, where the two girls spend so long on their computers in a surfing time warp they forget they are at opposite ends of the couch and start skyping each other.
It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!
I love that show .I miss it, it needs to be on all year long. But, yeah I agree they showed the texting only communication definitely to poke fun at the millennial generation, I find it absurd tho, but this whole movie is absurd imo...
shareTrue fact. I saw two girls sitting across from one another. Night at their heads down texting on their phone and they would look at each other a d laugh then they both left together. Freaking. Weird
shareIve texted people who where sitting less then 3 feet away from me. But it was usually sexy text talk just so no one else in the room would hear. lol
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Someone alluded to making the characters more creepy. I think also it's more economical to hire unknown actors who have no lines to rehearse nor can be criticized on the delivery of those unsaid lines. Easy to play a mute. Easier to play a mute with a mask.
He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.
I was thinking the same thing. If an actor has no lines they get paid less.
Teens interact without phones? Not anymore. That was realistic. The other elements, not so realistic.
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Is to illustrate their lack of humanity in a digital age
shareIt was part of the message of the film. People becoming obsessed with violence and technology. Hence the husband always talking on his phone, the killers only talking through text, the killers playing shooting games on their phones, the little boy at the end with the toy gun, etc.
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Does anyone find that message a little hypocritical seeing it was in what was essentially a SLASHER FILM?
If that was the intent of the film, it wasn't very subtle.
It was a bit caricatured. People text a lot, but not to people sitting right next to them. That is just awkward. For a while, I thought the three kids wear deaf or mute and incapable of speaking.
Oh, I've texted people sitting next to me, but only in settings where I didn't want others to overhear, such as while sitting in a meeting or conference. Texting when you could talk instead seems a little weird, I agree, but others here claim that it does happen.
In this case, though, there's a logical explanation. The texting-no-talking was one of the rules of the game the boys were playing. They were acting out a video game, where you can't talk to your fellow players but only interact through messages.
I think it was a social commentary about how the younger generation has lost its ability to communicate or interact in person and their ability to feel empathy.
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