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Soup (spoiler)

posted 15 years ago by tpupkin
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Not a bad movie, but one thing about the ending bugged me: why did the parents eat the drugged soup? Here you have two known evil children who you can't wait to hand over to the courts. You just caught them attempting to eat a classmate. They have beaten you with a baseball bat in your sleep and stabbed you. Then they tie you up. Are you really going to eat some soup they fixed for you? Really?

(Also, I don't think attempted ritualistic murder is one of those minor offenses the cops just don't bother with on holidays. Starting at that point, the movie began steadily losing credibility.)

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[–] ryoki9-1 15 years ago

yes but if the parents HAD tied the children to the beds,then THEY would have been hauled away and charged with child abuse. so there you go.(however, given what you all say happened to the parents this might have been preferable treatment)
btw:havent seen this, just cruising the site trying to recall another horror movie released about this time and was intrigued by the title and description of this one.

[–] Replicant_0376957 15 years ago

Overall a good movie.

I was also wondering the same thing. At first I thought they were trying to start a fire when the first showed the stove being lit. They didn't really NEED to drug them, but I think it added to the suspense when they were standing, untied, by the window, the mother left and then came back, but they hadn't disappeared. Foreshadowed towards them having something else up their sleeves. How exactly they fed it to them is beyond me though. I also didn't understand the point of showing the kids setting up the nails, as they had no further cameo in the movie. The one shot near the end of both the parents on the table with the mother convulsing was quite chilling too.

[–] llbrokenmindedll 15 years ago

I assumed they force fed them when they were contsious with an emphisis on the forced part, if it wasn't something they taped plot hole disolves. Although I agree it is not very well implied why they eat the soup.

As for the cops not comming, they probably thought it was the parents over reacting about naughty kids. What exactly did the parents say on the phone to them and honestly if you were a cop would you take it that seriously since two 10 year olds are probably not going to be capable of that in reality.

Her name is Meagan and she has come to punish you for the sins of her father!

[–] Anna_Screengazer 15 years ago

Well, if the kids force-fed them the soup, what was the point in making the soup in the first place? They could have just forced them to take the pills, no soup required. That was a plothole.

[–] muskratboy1 14 years ago

agree... but this was just ONE ridiculous plot hole amongst MANY.

to keep this movie going, the parents have to behave in such ridiculously unbelievable ways. if your movie makes so little sense that you have to resort to this sort of nonsense just to get to the end... you've got real problems.

the soup. the nails. the parents go to sleep. the parents don't tie up the kids. the parents just let the camera run the whole time. and many, many others.

just ridiculously stupid. i hate glaring, moronic plot holes... and this movie has a TON.

it's like they started shooting with only the vaguest idea of what they were doing, and then just started making things up that they thought might seem sort of creepy.

just a very poorly thought-out and executed film. and really, really stupid.

the 2nd half is completely without merit.

[–] Caractacus23 14 years ago

"I don't think attempted ritualistic murder is one of those minor offenses the cops just don't bother with on holidays."

Due to the youth of the kids, its very likely the system would not really think what they were doing was entirely serious. Kids that age rarely do really consciously evil stuff.

Been making IMDB board posts since the 90s, yet can't bring up any from before December of 2004.

[–] skampdmb 13 years ago

I wondered too, I noticed when they attacked the parents they (the parents) were both clothed on the bed including shoes. I have no idea why they would eat food prepared by their children who are obviously crazy, it also seems like the children made it after they had set all the traps. I suppose it's like everyone else says a plot hole, I couldn't figure out another reason.

[–] antdenehey 13 years ago

Just watched it for the first time. Not much confusion for me. There are many clues. When the father questions his daughter about the first incident with the boy at school, we are made aware that they are pre meditating their parent's murder. Everything that follows, is actually part of an elaborate plan. It's obvious the children have access to the camera, as they fast forward and rewind through certain moments, and know their mother can prescribe drugs. When the bowls were put in front of the parents on the table, I had no trouble believing they were being force fed. Planned from the beginning, as hinted by the daughter playing dead in the wagon at the beginning of the film.

When the parents went to bed in a state of shock, they locked the door. However earlier, the father taught his son to pick a lock.

Awesome film.

[–] antdenehey 13 years ago

Also, the children would not have benefitted from the parents knowing they were being drugged, so just force feeding them pills would not have worked.

[–] GreaseIsDaWord 13 years ago

^I agree with antdenehey - some things that you might see as plot holes can actually be explained by picking up and piecing together little clues, or just thinking outside of the box. The parents went to sleep with clothes on probably not only because they went to bed in shock, but maybe they were dressed because they assumed they'd have to jump out of bed and be ready for something to happen. The kids outsmarted them on that one though.

As for the force feeding, it looked like they were feeding them tomato soup, which is just liquid, so it's easy enough to force that in someone's mouth and down the throat (especially if they're unconscious). If they just used straight up pills, they couldn't guarantee the parents would actually swallow it.

So come up to the lab and see what's on the slab

[–] antdenehey 13 years ago

Plus, on viewing it again, the father was spitting out the soup during one of the quick edits at the table. Since they were tied up, you would seriously assume the children force fed them.