The last five minutes of Weapons is the best experience I've had in a movie theatre in years. It was just so perfect, so cathartic, so intense, and still really fucking horrible.
Once the thrills have died down, the part that resonates the most with me is the feeling that it really captures this moment in time in a way much more serious films don't.
Because it's the end result of what happens when the old are feeding off the weak and devouring them. We see them in the news every day - parasites in power who will destroy everything, if it means they can hold on to their meagre power and life for one more day.
And the grown-ups - who are neither innocent children nor malevolent elders - are just useless, they can't help because they've got their own pressures, and can even be weaponised against their own children. It's notable that the one little kid who isn't bewitched is the only one who actually does something useful and stops the madness.
But you can only push the kids so far before it all boils over, and they will come to you and tear you fucking apart.
Some movies are trying to grasp the vibe of life in the early 21st century, and so many of them are just painfully clumsy - I know enough about Eddington to know that I can never watch it, for instance. And some of them are perfect - I think of the 'people are under a lot of stress' scene from Twin Peaks The Return all the fucking time.
And then there are those tiny kids smashing through windows and coming for the old witch, not stopping for anything because things have gone too fucking far this time, and ripping the old fucker who has hurt so many people apart with their teeth. It isn't just a big fat metaphor for modern society, it's a clear warning to all old fuckers everywhere.
Age with dignity and empathy, or face the bloody consequences.
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