This is a horror film with a child-oriented perspective, portraying the tense relationship with parents. At the same time, the rise is also a sociologically meaningful story about how aliens resist assimilation and survive.
The main line of the story is very simple. Michael, who doesn't like meat, moved to a new home with his parents and started a new life. During the period, his father always fed Michael meat, but he didn't want to eat it at all, because he felt that the origin of the meat was unknown. Later, Michael discovered that his parents were really cannibals. In the end, he killed his father and his mother was buried with him.
The father was very high-handed in educating his children. He was not allowed to put his arms on the dining table. He always forced his son to eat meat. Every time his son was disobedient, he would say something like "There is a boy of your age who turned out to be lonely because he was disobedient. Selfish people" "Dad was afraid of the dark when he was your age, but became a man in the end" "You have to know that to survive in this world, you must become an invisible talent" and so on. Simple and crude and specious remarks. When Michael doesn't When obedient, the father will be very angry and say, "You don't look like me, you don't behave like me, you hate me", but when the son and mother kiss goodnight, he will show jealous expressions, softly and domineeringly. "Don't you kiss me too? "
The mother role in the film is a gentle and considerate housewife on the surface, but in fact it is also the complicity of the father. One day the teacher asked her to go to school and pointed out that Michael had a series of weird behaviors and deeds at school, but her mother was noncommittal. When the teacher asked "How good is his relationship with his father?", the mother immediately replied "very good", full of guard, but couldn't tell what was good.
Michael is always rebelling against his father passively, and he gestures to shoot at his father who is practicing golf. Not only did he refuse to eat meat at the dinner table, he also hooked up with female classmates against his father’s wishes, and even the curious son witnessed his parents’ sex life. The biological company that went to his father’s work found that his father was stealing the internal organs of a person, and he ran to the basement to find a corpse. Calling the teacher indirectly killed the teacher. In the end, after the parents were cannibalism, his father said to Michael, "You are an outsider, you are different from others, you are the same as us", and he wanted to persuade Michael to cannibalize. , Michael picked up the knife and successfully killed the father and killed his mother's hand and destroyed the home.
Both father and mother are "cannibals" who hide their weird behaviors. Michael's female classmate claims to be a "stranger" from the moon. Michael's teacher is an alcoholic and smoking "educator". The only boy in the film is Michael. A normal person with weird behavior. Michael wants to resist "assimilation" from his parents (hope that his son will learn to eat human flesh), the adult world in his eyes is full of alienation (seeing his parents use internal organs and blood to increase sexual interest), and his weird words, deeds and behavior are regarded by the teacher again." Abnormal"; and parents have to hide their true identity, and cannot give up their desire to cannibalism (resisting being "assimilated" by normal humans and wanting their sons to inherit the habit of cannibalism), resisting legal and moral condemnation (the father said if they were Will be burned if found).
Therefore, on the surface, this is a story about the betrayal of cannibals by children, as well as a story about how aliens fight against the squeeze from the outside society and the disintegration from within the family.
The father told his son:
"When you are looking at others, they are also looking at you, at school, at home, or even in the bathroom. Don’t let them look at you. This is the first rule of survival. Do you understand? Invisibility is the best thing. Up!"
The words of the screenwriter in the interview gave the finishing touch to the film. He said:
"This movie is liked by many niche fans, especially LGBT people ."
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