>>216000484
I love this movie but there is no reason the police wouldn't have biangulated the direction they ran in. We didnt need Brolin to do it

>>216000516
They were busy running a train on Julia Garner

>like 30 kids all run straight to the same house
>takes them weeks to figure this shit out
The only people more retarded than the writer are the fans of this shit.

>>216000536
She was such a BPD cunt in the movie opening I was convinced she was the abductor

>>216000516
These police couldn’t even bother to notice that both of the one surviving kid’s parents had been mysteriously supernaturally lobotomized. I’m not sure they even really interrogated the kid.

>>216000484
They do, that's how the Josh Brolin found dem keedz. I guess the police and feds forgot to check

>>216000516
they were distracted by the giant right wing gun in the sky

Why was Wong a homosexual?

>>216000516
The police is consistently portrayed in it as (a) small town (b) incompetent and (c) corrupt bunch of losers. Like quarter of the movie is dedicated to showing just how bad they are.
So no, they would never figure it out. And even if they did, they still didn't connect the dots, because they lack bunch of intel that later, purely private investigation reveal.

Because the actual plot of the movie was that a kid who had alcoholic parents shot up his school and the whole witch story was a mega cope

>>216002126
I don’t find the school shooting angle compelling as a metaphor when you consider anything beyond the first 15 minutes
Conversely, the ‘parasite’ perspective is explicitly included in a majority of scenes (class blackboard, radio on way to school, documentary Wong is watching, etc)

>>216001951
Feds were involved though

>>216000484
>>216000516
It's called suspension of disbelief. If the movie is good I'll do it, and this one is.
>>216002516
>I don’t find the school shooting angle compelling as a metaphor
Same. The movie is not a metaphor imo, there is a lot of subtext and theming in there though, like the parasite theme you mentioned, and to me that's what makes it interesting and an above average film.

>>216000536
>>216000553
She looked so mousy and cute from the trailer, I really didn't expect her to be such a bitch in the actual movie. Gayness aside, the Chinese dude was reasonable and nice to her the whole time, a real bro but she treated him like garbage. She treated everyone like garbage to be honest. Not likable or cute at all. It's weird casting, or weird writing. Or both. She should've been sweeter and demure so I could give a shit about her. Why would I care about some deranged bitch?

>>216000484
did you watch the movie? they saw all the kids setting them off when leaving the house but they wouldn't set them off while running through the streets

>>216002844
It took one (1) civilian two (2) sets of footage and about fifteen (15) minutes of legwork to find where all the kids went, dude. It's ridiculous.

>>216002937
Dude, don't bother. Anyone with half a brain has already completely dismissed this poorly written trash as millennial slop. The fact that people here still vehemently defend it just proves the complete "letteterboxization" of this board. You see movies are now rated on "vibes", and that's good enough for them.

>>216003031
I actually liked it, I just think the story set up could've used some work.

>>216002937
the police were set up to be retards. brolin seemed to have an open mind that it was some sort of mystical force after the asian principal was doing the same thing and couldn't be stopped. the cops didn't see any of that shit or that he was running the same as the kids. makes you look at things a different way

>>216003190
They mentioned the feds were part of the investigation though, as they should be. It just doesn't work.

>>216003406
that's fair and they showed the feds in the house but i have no idea why they didn't look in the basement. unless they felt so bad about the family situation they left them alone

>>216000484
The witch hacked the cameras except for two.