Am the only one who thought Brad and Abby were vapid people? Always posing, like Scavullo is there taking portraits of them? Snobs who act (always acting) like life was a series of opportunities to pose for the lifestyle pages of Page Six magazine?
I'm sorry. But, I did not feel one ounce of sympathy for either of them.
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i didnt get that impression at all.
shareI agree with you, OP. The parents were terrible. It's no wonder Joshua didn't feel any emotional connection to them because they were polar opposites to Joshua. Joshua was lonely and needed someone in his life who he felt he had more in common with, and he didn't get that from his parents.
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he got it from his grandmother, then killed her. what a lovely child.
shareLike I have said on other threads, it didn't show him kill his grandmother. She was talking at one moment, the camera cut away from her, and at the next moment, she had fallen from the stairs. It never showed him physically push her. We have no proof she was murdered. It could've been an accident for all we know. Accidents happen all the time. Probably more often than murders do.
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It's quite improbable given the nature of the film and the setting that the grandmother just happened to fall down the stairs at that moment. No one just falls down the stairs when they are standing next to an emotionless, psychotic person. And there's even an additional clue: didn't u notice that moment of deadpan gaze that Joshua had on top of the stairs after the fall, before he suddenly "reacted" to the situation? The only question is WHY did he kill her? She seemed to be nice towards him.
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So you can't fall down stairs and be standing beside a crazy person at the same time? I never knew that. And having a delayed reaction does not make one a killer. As I said before, it never shows him pushing her. I think how she fell was probably chosen to be ambiguous on purpose so her fate would be open to interpretaion.
Come, fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings.
page six? these people would never read the post. so no.
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I re-watch this and other psychological horror movies every October...and yes, the parents were unsympathetic. Abby more so than Brad, because she was annoying with her "too cool for school" high society attitude. Brad was just clueless as a father.
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