Bad guys don't usually have bad guys on their faces

Catharine 2022-03-28 09:01:06

This is not a comedy, because Winnie's dad is the biggest villain, pedantic and bureaucratic, and in the end he doesn't get any punishment, the white hat is still on his head.
In contrast, the red hat is just a poor ghost who insists on abiding by the rules of the class and unscrupulously. Even like his two subordinates who lost their way in the end, right and wrong is nothing but the direction they are attached to.
The former is an abominable system pervert, and the latter is a pathetic human nature.
As for the complete subversion, the heroic box monsters have given us the best answer:
Out of the BOX!

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The Boxtrolls quotes

  • Winnie: [she has fallen down a deep hole, that leads to the Boxtrolls underground hide-out] Where are the rivers of blood, and the mountains of bones? I was promised mountains of bones!

  • Archibald Snatcher: You really think Portly-Rind and his mob will help a nobody like you? In this town, you want help, you gotta help yourself. That's what a man does.

    Eggs: You're a liar, when I tell Winnie's father the truth, he'll...

    [Snatcher knocks Eggs to the wall with a baseball bat]

    Archibald Snatcher: HE'LL THANK ME. Because... all your little Boxtroll friends... are going to die. TONIGHT!

    Eggs: WHAT?

    Archibald Snatcher: THEY'LL MAKE ME THE MOST RESPECTED MAN IN THIS TOWN! They'll have no choice but to give me a white hat, they'll parade me. They'll take me up on their shoulders. And I'm NOT gonna let that be ruined by some little Boxtroll sewer rat!