So you should? For a start, you will not have to look for analogies for a long time: the prologue of this picture is great reminiscent of the well-known ringing comedy with Macaulay Culkn, when a hastily forgotten boy, alone on vacation in an empty house, is visited by a couple of hapless thieves who meet the decisive and stunning rebuff of a reckless reclusive who turns aggressors into helpless reachmen.
Here, too, the story begins with a solitary confrontation between a boy and thieves inside an empty house, unexpectedly facing themselves face to face, as in a mirror, noticing the fear in the eyes of their opponent, but the raiders who had time to understand the threat did not have enough time to escape: in a fit of affective fear, an eleven-year-old teenager unceasingly discharged the ammunition of a multi-loading rifle in them.
Two corpses on the lawn, however, allow parents and police to assess the outcome of the attack prosperous, considering the actions of the child decisive and necessary, attributing to him according to the results of the early manifestation of masculinity, worthy of loud notes in the television releases of local news, stuffing the idol with his pathetic admiration, while the idol himself, despite his small years, feels that he went through too much.
A very clear example of how different people can assess the situation, how difficult it is for parents to recognize the psychological state of a son who is justified in committing a double murder, without understanding what he crossed the threshold and what he encountered there, beyond the threshold, is unable to explain to anyone the non-compulsory nature of his actions, understandable only to him alone. And this suffocating pressure of conscience is additionally superimposed anxiety from the threat of expected retaliation, merging into one nightmare chasing the boy around the clock, turning the guts of Andrew Starns, who bravely accepted this role, who picked up a secret code for this very difficult personality.
Having witnessed the bloody events, it is not difficult to understand the reaction of the teenager, both at the time of the shooting and after, the realization of the treacherous power of fear, which continues to deprive him of restful sleep, while others praise the young “hero”, considering the accident that occurred to him a great feat. Opinions of adults are expected to fit into several eloquent formulas, starting with the simplest: “they ran into themselves” to an even more cynical sentence – “so they should.”
Everything is foldable, but if the director did what he did wrong, it was that, carried away, almost completely dissolved in psychology the pathos of the value of life, separated from death by an invisible moral border, arising in the enlightened consciousness of a teenager pursued by avengers, inevitably approaching the same boundary point, when retribution should seemingly bring redemption, but the way out of a beautifully set dead end frankly tramples the logic of criminal thinking, instantly inflating the finale with a powerful flow of pathetics, completely depriving him of regularities, although it is impossible to imagine such an outcome.