🦩Carnival for Carnivores🦩

*Spoilers*

It seemed to me to have pretty clear messaging about the dangers of nostalgia/wanting to live in the past vs the actual reality of being in the past (dangerous, deadly, people from suburbia completely unequipped to handle that life, its BAD there actually) and that wanting to ignore problems (like steadily dissolving relationships, unemployment, climate change) doesnt stop those problems and in fact makes them worse, will actually get you killed possibly.

And I think the film did this very clever thing of taking this "perfect" white suburban family and showing all the carnage and destruction of their neighbors all around them but they are largely uninvolved and ignoring the scenes of violence all around them in favor of self preservation. And they are constantly showing this family just baaaarely evading the monsters - they're around the corner, they're one backyard over, you get a glimpse of them just beyond the next house, and the family skirts away while someone else's dies.