Cultural differences lead to incomprehension

Ferne 2022-04-23 06:01:02

I was wrong, I thought it was a comedy, and I was scared again~~~ But the plot is very compact and dizzying, but due to cultural differences (actually we don’t know the Halloween traditions enough), I don’t quite understand and a little bit The feeling of inconsistency didn't come to my mind until I read the film reviews. The director is really pious. There are so many hidden lines running through it, and there will be more discoveries when I read it again. Remember, "Pumpkin lantern, protect you from going home!"

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  • [Schrader goes back for the other kids when he hears screams in the distance, leaving Rhonda alone by the old gate elevator]

    Macy: [Macy runs into Schrader] Schrader!

    Schrader: What the hell?

    Macy: We have to go. We have to get out of here.

    Schrader: Macy, calm down.

    Macy: We have to go!

    Schrader: Look! Macy.

    Macy: Listen to me! We heard voices. There are other people here.

    [the kids begin to hear voices giggling]

    Schrader: What is that?

    [voices mumble and giggle as the kids see the original school bus massacre children walking toward them from the fog, the kids scream for their life]

  • [the kids arrive at the location site of the old Halloween School Bus Massacre]

    Schrader: Great, a rock quarry. Nice way to celebrate Halloween, Macy.

    Chip: Why are we here?

    Macy: To pay our respects to the dead.

    Chip: What happened? Did somebody die here?

    Sara: Wait. Is this where - ? It is isn't it? This is where that school...

    Macy: Shut up, Sara.

    Chip: The Halloween School Bus Massacre.

    Macy: Just don't call it that.

    Schrader: What's she talking about?

    Sara: It's this awesome town legend. There's this bus full of...

    Macy: Jesus, will you shut up and let me tell the damn story?

    Rhonda: You said a bad word.

    [Macy rolls her eyes at Rhonda before telling the story]

    Macy: It happened 30 years ago on a late Halloween afternoon.

    Macy: [begins narrating the flashback] A school bus was on its usual route. But this wasn't your typical school bus and they weren't your typical kids. There were eight of them and they were different. Troubled. Disturbed. Every day, parents put their dirty secrets on this bus to be driven to a school miles out of town.

    [we see the kids each in their creepy Halloween masks and costumes]

    Vampire Kid: [we see the vampire kid in his seat counting the addresses outside] 3260. 3264. 3266.

    Macy: [continuing to narrate] But that day... the driver took a different route.

    Vampire Kid: Wrong way. Wrong way. Wrong way.

    Macy: And instead of taking the students home he drove the bus to an abandoned rock quarry. This rock quarry.

    [narrates]

    Macy: What the kids didn't know is that, over the years, their parents had become exhausted, and embarrassed. And they were willing to do anything to ease their burden. So one day, the parents approached the bus driver and made him an offer. With the money collected together, they asked him to do the unthinkable. It almost worked perfectly.

    [the bus driver quiets the kids and begins to walk down the bus checking that each chained down kid is correct, passing them each a piece of candy]

    Vampire Kid: [the vampire kid begins to try and slip out of his chains] Wrong way. Wrong way. Home. Home. I wanna go home. I wanna go home. Home.

    Vampire Kid: [the vampire kid manages to get behind the steering wheel of the bus] Home. Home. Home. I wanna go home. Home.

    [the bus drives forward off the rock quarry with the bus driver surviving]

    Macy: [narrating] The driver was never heard from again. As for the bus, some say it sank so deep that it couldn't be found. Others say the town just didn't want it to be found. For all we know, it's still down there and so are those kids.

    [silence as the kids look down into the rock quarry]