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Think that’s about where I am too. It promises something better than it delivers

Gladys is the only scary part but also optically speaking: old women/unattractive women are yet again vilified? I

My argument is that the allegory is the central structure of the entire picture and without it being sturdy, everything all just becomes flimsy around it

I disagree tbh! It’s there in the subtext (bullied, abused kid is surrogate for school shooter) and the literal text in that scene with Brolin’s character (dream sequence, 2:17 above the house) but it is really only a surface allegory once you consider Gladys