Well shit right out of the gate
Boys already in the trunk
Already in a secondary location
Oh not cut back to 6 hours earlier
They live... Somewhere vold apparently
I thought they were strangers
Boyhood intimacy that dissolves when toxic masculinity sets in
In apparent middle of nowhere
No frame of reference for location
Wind and trees so you already have the appearance from this scene they are two boys alone in the middle of nowhere
Despite the fact that they are children, they can't be alone and they are dressed for a ball game so clearly there's a school a house a community.. something but we are estranged from that
They are doing a good job of not aging up this young black boy
Think this is assisted by the boys constant voice cracking and the intimacy of the shots prior
Juxtaposition with ocean cuts... California, the dream
The other boy was separated (taken out of the trunk first)
The black kid makes a break for it then realizes his bestie in the house and he turns back
We are still very much in the middle of nowhere
Stealth is not this boys expertise
Luck and being in the middle of nowhere has helped him evade notice thus far
Oh shit there's two men this just got bad
Through the house obvious creeper tries to placate the boy everything is locked so it's not a hostile chase as an adult (sicko) trying to calm a boy down
Luck is on the boys side almost physical comedy he gets his own self killed slipping into a knife basically trying to pretend hes not going to hurt the boy (bobby)
Now we see the watch again 38 mins on the clock
Kevin is ahackled in the room which is why he ain't done anything
Bobby after an unknown length of freak about apology session for the dead kidnapper
Keys to the room and presumably shackles are unlocateable
But keys to the car are in dead kidnapper no 1 pocket
Bobby tries the car to go get help
But bobby is fucking 8 or some shit and not only cannot drive but definitely can't drive a fucking a manual from the sixties EYE can't drive a manual from the sixties that shit didn't even look like it had power steering
Bobby finds a rotary phone
Kevin knows how that shit works lol it's 2020 and their 8
I will note the car rolled down the drive which might provide cover ??
The use of sound is to isolate small noises and pump them to 11 the watch beep a nail crack a screw turn
The kid dials 911 and the 911 operator calls him " sir"
It's obviously a small child
The dialogue is limited (as with most horrors) and the supplemental info is radio and tv soundtracks
Kevin unscrews a heating grate (it's an old fracking house it's thin iron wrought
And tries to chop his foot (before interruption)
The emphasis at the age of these kids is highlighted at every turn because that will most certainly not work it's not heavy enough hes not strong enough etc
Bobby struggles like hell to move the corpse and it's only assisted by the pool of blood that slicks the way
He is TERRIBLE at cleaning like children are there's a lot of blood and it's almost comically bad how he can't get it come out
Failed to mention the rotary phone was in a chest of otger little boys bloody clothes so here we are
Bobby successfully temporarily hid the body and the car rolled in a ditch so as predicted he seems like he left
I don't know that this scene is even necessary but the boy is at least covering all the angles
The kidnapper #2 comes back and access a safe and goes elsewhere the boy then acesses the safe and finds a shit ton of cash and pedo paraphernalia
As if we don't know, and does the kid need to know? Did we need an innocence further lost moment
Best guess is an explainer that these men are human traffickers not pedos themselves and that is why the boys are in immediate bodily harm?
Because the photos were staged that speaks to sale and gives the audience a time explanation for why they are alone for so long, this is a stash house???
Bobby injures himself trying to get kev out again reinforcing they are children and complete idiots
911 rolls up and instead of smashing the window he just starts screaming
The intensity of this film is relaying to the audience just how young and stupid these kids are
Not surprising snatching two kids at once is a multi partner operation
PLOT TWIST the other guy is a woman there are only two .so far
Local cop tips his hand that there's a kidnapper traced to the area???
This a stupid cop trope or a woman aren't suspicious commentary
Cop clocks woman cut her hand is being obviously go fucking suspicious AND her attempts at banter are off putting in a way that's clearly designed to put him on the defensive
Lady decided shes been caught and shes putting down local cop because she just leaves him at the front door
A small black child runs out of a white womans house and says help us
Local cop is like oh fuck this is real situation
Cop down/ which means help is on the way later because... dispatch is gonna ask soon, even if it's in podunk no where
Shinning reference/ axe door
The gun obviously comes out now because obvs she was trying to protect the merchandise
She found her partner in crime
Lil reference to even racism in trafficking she was going to leave him in the car to die presumably because she can't get money for black kids
Not presumably she just said it
Annd now shes aging him up as a "fighter" because he's trying desperately not to get trafficked, classy
Bobby gets the drop on her she's clearly illustrated she gets smol white boys probably with lures and probably makes her partner do the fighting
Despite getting the drop on her and handcuffing her to a pipe he literally left her with the gun (kids are dumb)
He gets grazed but hes 8 so getting shot isn't ideal
WTF does kev got on his neck??
There's racial implications here in the non black child
(I don't think kev is white tbh)
Really seen just panicking and not doing shit to save himself, he's less mobility due to being chained but after his one idea of self harm is concluded he is largely seen just screaming and crying no survival instincts
Is this appropriate for a child yes
But there's clearly a race element as who is expected to be saved and who anticipates their own rescue even when bobby is doing anything and everything he can injured fighting adults kev is just crying don't leave me as if he hasn't been there the whole time when he could have left
But it's janky as shit and clearly made from AA batteries only after bobby LITERALLY passes out from pain and blood loss does kev find it in himself to save his own ass and does the decent thing to collect his bestie to
I'm not convinced had the cutters to the shock collar not been with bobby kev would have just dipped
The got into the police cruiser and at least kev is a boy scout he's doing first aid once again the radio dispatcher is trash and tells them to get off the channel
They evade long enough for the cops to come in the nick of time
Apparently they make it to California the boys carry we never see the parents their house their lives anything it's wholly insulated
For instance what's the context be if we see the parents ( not saying we should have) but it's two boys from separate families meantto attend a ball game
These under 12's have neen missing overnight there would already be an amber alert
Two boys who say their first and last names say they have neen taken
That should have illicited a response
Anyways solidly constructed
Child in the cupboard playing with mice
Blood and screams coming from above the floor boards
Man digging bog is big news in small town
This woman doesn't want her mother picking up her kid from school
There's a dig bog adjacent, mummified corpse
Bog digger saw something and died
Intruder in the back yard??
Mom has seizures ( for the record immensely poorly imitated seizure, it seems hard for actors to do that for some reason
It's poorly researched ??
It looked like a literal tremor including the bed
Researcher comes into town, flirty with woman who has dark family history
(Murder of granny to start with)
Home invasion of woman - one of the guys on the researcher team says they're making me do it
Attacks them, steals milk??
Let's out a scream in a voice not his own womans voice
Lady protag not too terrified to clock it
Mom is gonna get stabbed in mouth obligatory horror phallic intrusion into mouth ๐๐๐คฎ๐คฎ everybody take a drink
With a hammer no serious injuries except to research tram member
The guy comes by to apologize on behalf of his employee
Saying he's literally the nicest guy on the team and he had to have snapped thru have known him for years
She tries to connect it to the past but the head researcher says he would have been a teenager when that happened and also not in this country at all
I knew the old man knew something he says bog man was very nice to before he started digging crazy bogs and
It's starting again DUNT DUNT DUNNN
Mom not buying it but she drops they go to get an mri and a demon child if following her around the hospital ???
Why did u stay in the elevator with a demon child?
Why are taking their hand they chanting somi
Omg lol the child passed ou and she left it in the elevator ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Chant translation: she never died
Dutch traditions of bog whispers legend of Feike
The bog digger is referenced to by his father as a sensative
He's saying his son probably heard a whisper
The woman fights with the researcher in the car about not being crazy and asking genuine questions about what the bog the digging and the woman they are digging up have to do in common
The researcher says hes not going to tell her if she's paranoid
They immediate counteract her point by having her jump out of the car into the middle of the night screaming than pounce on the guy and have sex in the middle of the field ๐๐
Four women all throats cut
Oh yea the dead set up nature cams
Graphic take for a children's play even as town lore
And moloch didn't even save the woman she action does but ruling over prosperity and resolving town poverty is a big get
Dad setting up traps instead of serving the play the daughter played feike