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BlueTigerLion posted...

I guess a part of it was the premise to me seem like this would be a horror mystery-thriller. And it ended up spending a large part of the film on characters that didnt have a personal connection to the missing children.

For some reason I was expecting an allegory on school shootings. But I should have went in without any hopes that would have made me appreicate how the plot did progress.

Honestly though, I felt like the differing perspective did drive home the school shooting angle on it?

You had the teacher who genuinely cared about the kids and who felt guilty over it all despite it not being her fault, the school staff who wants to do things by the books over the actual human angle of the whole thing, the incompetent police who miss big clues and insist that they're on it when they're not accomplishing shit, the kind of self-centered outsiders in the community who are more interested in how it can benefit them than caring about the victims, and the parents of the victims who want answers and in some cases are more effective than the police.

I feel like the structure of the story made for an interesting exploration of how an entire community handles situations like that and I definitely think that you can read it as an allegory for school shootings. It felt to me like the structure of it all was deliberately centered around the different perspectives and relations to the incident within a single community.