Was he just put in there just for diversity sakes?
shareI looked this up because I was confused why the kid looked Asian and was wondering if he was adopted. But apparently the child actor is half Chinese, and the other half is mixed Latino/Native American/German.
Another disappointing part of the movie is them not explaining so much of Max's backstory. Who was the mom, where was she? How did Max know so much about the Wishing Rock artifact? What did that kid do all day when Max was gone? Just hang out in the office building? Poor kid probably didn't even have a GameBoy back then as it wasn't invented yet.
To be fair, the kid seemed to be pretty content just staring at things and almost never speaking. So there's that.
shareAnd why was the kid seemingly just wandering around at his own leisure? He just randomly shows up at the office, and every time Maxwell seems surprised to see him there.
This movie was batshit insane. So many times I just found myself staring with my jaw dropped to the floor, wondering if anything was supposed to make sense or not.
I'm pretty sure the son had a babysitter of some kind or Max had someone taking care of him and stuff (can't think of the term for it at the moment). I think we saw that person earlier on in the movie. The person might've been a middle man too between the parents. I believe we saw that person the very first scene we saw the son. But then after that, we didn't need to really see them since it was implied they were still hanging around and stuff and right outside the office or something.
And then him wandering around in the third act made sense. The entire world was in complete chaos with all the wishing going on. The person hired to watch Max's son more than likely made a wish and ditched/quit. Or another person's wish could've done something to that person and forced them to abandon Max's son. Or with all the chaos going on, the person was killed.
I mean, it makes sense when you add all the details in on your own, but the movie doesn't explain or show us anything.
I didn't hate the film as much as most, I just think it was a waste of such massive potential. The first one was amazing, and this was such a weird follow-up to it.
Nerdrotic pointed it out, lol. Now we never got to see the mother, so there's no way to make it plausible that his kid would look like that. What's especially funny, is how Nerdrotic joked that the only reason he knew the kid's name, was because the villain screamed it so many times in the film, hehehe.
"ALISTEEEERRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Well, we never saw the child's mom, so I'm just going to go with that the kid looks more like his mom than Max (the bad guy). Maybe if we saw the mom, I'd be questioning stuff. But I just shrugged it off since we never saw the child's mom. Plus throw in that my dad was pretty much white and my sisters and I look Native American (well, if I let my hair grow out, if not, I can pass for white). But my mom's side of the family has a lot of Native American in it. Mainly my grandma's side of my mom's family if we want to REALLY break down stuff. My grandma was 100% Native American, making me a quarter. So I just related the kid to my family's situation. My dad is is white, but because of my mom being half Native American, that's where I get my Native American from and why I look more Native American than white. But when I was younger though, I looked a lot like my dad. But the older I get, the more I kind of look like my mom. Probably the Native American coming out more and more as I get older. Not too much though since I can still pass for white. At least I have a Native American picture ID I can bust out if anyone wants to question me (talking in person) about if I'm white or Native American.
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shareWait a minute...are you serious? Max Lord is Hispanic, NOT white to begin with. Secondly we never see Alastair’s mother so she could have been Asian or of course he might have been adopted. No one ever alludes to this that I’m aware of.
shareOk first of all hispanic are white.
Secondly, mixed ethnicity children dont just look like pureblood one ethnicity children no matter who the mother is.
The kid's ethnicity didn't matter. He was shoehorned into a movie that didn't need a kid and just made it even more of a cringefest when he was on screen.
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