Joshua is the god who restores order.
Joshua in the film was rebuilding order from the beginning, and he was rebuilding order for the family. Especially after his sister was born, he rebuilt the whole family for her sister. He thinks his parents and grandma are not qualified. This is confirmed by many places in the film.
So everything he did was to create the ideal family in his mind.
He saw his neurotic mother when he was young on the videotape. He didn't want his sister to have such a mother. Then he told his father that he was much better than his mother.
Why did he kill the hamsters in the school? He thought that children shouldn't like to imprison animals since they were young. So he rebuilt order according to his method and killed those mice.
Why did he kill the old dog Buster? It was mentioned at the beginning of the film that the dog should be locked up, but he never did. It is dangerous to have large dogs in a house with a baby. But parents didn't do anything. Joshua rebuilt order for her sister.
Why did he kill grandma? He tried to push the stroller down to prove that grandma did not do her best to protect them. After getting rid of his grandmother, he thought that his father and him would take good care of his younger sister. He didn't expect his father to doubt him, so he realized that his father was also inappropriate, and then used a series of incidents such as a psychologist to drive his father away. I remember that he asked his father to put his arms around him to sleep, and when his father woke up, he saw him feeding his sister with a bottle, indicating that he could do better than his father. The battle in the park also exposed his father's rude side. Not a good father.
In this way, he rebuilt his family and got rid of his parents who he could not choose. Give his sister an environment that he thinks is healthy.
Final details: painting is his plan. To become a mummy pet, he knows that the pet will die one day, and he wants to keep it forever by turning it into a "mummy".
The story is what a child did to restore the order in his heart. Get rid of the parents who he considers unqualified, let the pets live forever, let the old dogs disappear, and let the mice in the class disappear. Everything is because he is using his methods to rebuild the order in his mind.
He is Joshua.
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Supplement: The child is For those who cannot choose their parents, we cannot say that all parents in the world are responsible. When a child faces a pair of incompetent parents, the child is often the most helpless. The so-called Anti-parents, or anti-parental alliance, is a manifestation of this phenomenon.
Hope to help everyone understand this film.
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