audience complicit my arse

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Yay? The film "succeeds" at being deeply disturbing. I don't think that's much of a feat. A real feat would be having a good story to tell, or even a reason to tell a story. This film fails on both counts.

Every time someone (rightly) questions the asinine "remote control" scene, others pipe up with "but the characters already broke the 4th wall!", as if that explains or justifies it somehow. It does not. "But the 4th wall breaks make the audience complicit!" Oooh, deep thoughts there. Unfortunately also total BS. The 4th wall breaks cheapen the movie and take us out of it, and serve no intelligent purpose. As for complicity...

The audience is "complicit" in continuing to watch the film NOT because we want to continue seeing the family tortured. It's because we want to see the two sadistic preppy twats get fucking gutted. That or because we expect the filmmaker has SOME POINT to relate to us that won't be clear until the end.

There's a difference between a happy ending, a dark ending, and just selling out. This is a total sell-out. The filmmakers had nothing substantive to say, so they just tried to tart up their little torture porn experiment with some flaccid philosophical drivel that has nothing to do with anything. Don't look over here, where the actual movie is happening...look *over here* at this sparkly little retarded teaser I'm dangling to distract you from the utter lack of substance over there.

Fail.