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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 8560001" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>Regarding the juxtaposition of the cartoonish with the genuinely horrific, there's some of that even in the first movie. When the signal goes out that sends people psychotic, the move focuses on two scenes - one of people starting to wrestle with each other on a beach, and the more high-stakes scene of the mother and her kid who we've been introduced to previously, with the mother having had time to warn her daughter to lock herself in the bathroom. And naturally, after some rising tension, the signal is cut off in the nick of time just before the mother breaks down the door.</p><p></p><p>But the movie seems to expect us to not extrapolate from that scene to the countless others that must also have been taking place, in which children were not separated from their parents or guardians by a handy locked door, and the horrors that must have then ensued. Either that, or it expects us not to care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 8560001, member: 40176"] Regarding the juxtaposition of the cartoonish with the genuinely horrific, there's some of that even in the first movie. When the signal goes out that sends people psychotic, the move focuses on two scenes - one of people starting to wrestle with each other on a beach, and the more high-stakes scene of the mother and her kid who we've been introduced to previously, with the mother having had time to warn her daughter to lock herself in the bathroom. And naturally, after some rising tension, the signal is cut off in the nick of time just before the mother breaks down the door. But the movie seems to expect us to not extrapolate from that scene to the countless others that must also have been taking place, in which children were not separated from their parents or guardians by a handy locked door, and the horrors that must have then ensued. Either that, or it expects us not to care. [/QUOTE]
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