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Dragon

posted 16 years ago by Jughead5935
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So I watched this on demand last night and it was okay. I thought some of the scenes were creepy and I haven't looked at little kids the same yet.

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So watching the movie I found the part where the father was telling the fairy tale of the dragon kinda of boring and out of place. Through-out the movie though you see the kid's stuffed dragon constantly in random places. Then when the father goes into the clubhouse there is a drawing of a dragon. Then at the end of the movie when the children have both of their parents in trash bags, they are both wearing paper bags over their heads like the dragon did in the story. I really have no idea what the dragon symbolized. Maybe that the kids felt out of place like the dragon did and so they decided to kill the parents.

Another thing I did not get at all. When the father dies, it shows the pills and the soup. So we should assume that the dad ate the soup. Why in the world would he eat the soup his daughter gave him right after they beat him with a bat and tied him up. When did he have time to even eat the soup? That part confused me so much.

Overall I think the movie could have been better. It had such creepy scenes, but you didn't really like the parents. You were kinda relived when the kids finally caught them.

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[–] ggcool 16 years ago

I agree about the dragon part, they were isolated from everyone else, but the creepy thing is they wanted to be. They hid from everyone else. The story part I also didnt get, but I guess it foreshadowed the violent events coming.

As for the parents, well I felt bad for them. I would have been extremely happy if I parents like them, they were young and fun. So when their kids turn out to be Satan's children, I felt bad. I was hoping near the end the kids would be killed by the father, who just violently lashed out on them. But, well, that didnt happen. I thought maybe the kids forced food on their parents and just waited. Also Im surprised how a 10 year old can put a grown man into ropes. How is that possible, even with a baseball bat, he would have been overpowered. I liked the film, and it scared the *beep* out of me.

[–] sarah-dmonrx 16 years ago

The dragon in the story obviously represented the children..

The part that got me was when the dad was laying in bed with the kids when they were getting bitten.. why was he in bed with them? Overall, great film.

[–] jonnyheckman 16 years ago

I just got done watching this and I found it annoying. I hated the hipster, "I'm young", parents so much that I didn't care whether they lived or died. I definitely feel like I've seen this movie before, it felt like little bits from many other movies were stolen to create this. Not a fan.

[–] Iheartthewire 16 years ago

I'm not a fan either. This movie was so annoying I couldn't stand it! I wanted to turn it off midway through but, I figured if I came this far I might as well stick around to see how it would end. The thing that annoyed me the most is that the mom was a doctor but she didn't notice early on that her children were terribly disturbed? Also, another part that I couldn't figure out is how did the son drag the mom in a radio flyer red wagon across the woods? I'm sure she had to weigh twice as much as he did.

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[–] mushyelle17 16 years ago

I just watched this movie and found to be extremely annoying, not very scary, and just plain dumb. One thing that really bothered me was that the writer really did not do his homework when writing this screenplay. Being a graduate student in Psychology there were way too many inconsistencies, as well as moving back and forth between a psychologist and a psychiatrist... They are two completely different professions with completely different degree requirements. Psychologists and psychiatrists alike are not allowed to do therapy on those they know, part of the APA ethics code, so that is completely unbelievable. And the fact that the parents never really punished the kids for anything they did, just plain dumb. The acting was shoty, and this is definitely not a film I would recommend to anyone under any circumstance.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (19821846) 16 years ago

sarah, I completely agree. What was with that? Why did the dad lay in bed with them when this was happening? And then he jumped up like he did something wrong when the mom came in. Made no sense.

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[–] lucygilroy1989 16 years ago

im pretty sure at some point in the film the parents mentioned that they moved to the woods because of the kids behaviour, they sed something bout how they had to get away from ppl who would ask the enivitable question 'how are your kids?'

as for the dragon, i also got the impression that it symbolised the kids, in the story the dragon walked talked and danced like a child, but he wasnt a child and he killed them. the children in the film also walked and talked like a child, but there was a lack of innocence in them which made them not children and something evil

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[–] hardfugoo 12 years ago

I agree... there was definitely something funny going on with the direction of the movie. It's like they wanted to set it up like the dad was actually abusing them after all. Then the kids would have been justified (well maybe, not really haha) in what they were doing. Or, well, we'd at least understand it.

Then it's just like they bailed on that idea and just went on the insanity. Which I think was a better choice... but they had to organize the ending better. It wasn't really coherent and the little red herrings they tried putting in were contradictory and didn't make sense.

Still a damn good/creepy movie but poor decision making and explanations kinda ruined something that had potential to be great.