The weapons were deeply inspired by the beloved “Hugh Jackman”

This article contains Spoilers For “weapons”.

Although the last horror movie “Weapons” has already received a lot of comparisons with the 1999 “Magnolia” movie, it turned out that there is another hard film director Zach Craigger that was inspired by it. in A recent interview with LetterboxdCregger explained that it was the movie “Hugh Jackman”, which is led by Hugh Jackman who paid him more than anything else.

“First of all, cinematography of” prisoners “is very great. “It is a washed, cloudy, cloudy and rainy movie. I really wanted to evoke everything visually this movie, so the film photographer I watched and I watched” prisoners “and I talked about it a lot when we were exploring. He lived very, and the film feels originally. Interview with the operating menuCregger emphasized this regard again, saying: “Prisoners” all over this film. “

It is easy to see what it means: they are both films about the apparent suburban city of suburb, which has shattered its world through a mysterious tragedy. With “weapons”, the sudden disappearance of 17 children from one semester, a hypothesis dating back to 17 children who were killed in the shooting of Parkland School in 2018. With “prisoners”, mystery became a little more, and begins as a slight kidnapping.

Although the kidnapper’s motives are detected that they are more complicated than expected, their methods are less I am terrifying existential from the aunt Glades “from” weapons “,”, “ “Prisoners” is still a darker and more painful movie in general. “Weapons” are back away from the tone of fear of fear Give us an enjoyable final; “Prisoners” deprives their viewers of this comfort.

Creggers explained how, in addition to the inspiration from “prisoners” and “Magnolia”, there were also parts of “genetic”, “Hanging Rock” and “The Virgin Suicides” in his movie as well. “These types of suburbs are only. These are those.”

All of these films live in the idea that American life in the suburbs, which is believed to be often the ideal place for people to settle and start a family, has a dark and decimal thing under the surface. In “weapons”, darkness is not only the wizard of the evil magician, but the town’s inhabitants are isolated from each other. The witch cannot cause a lot of damage in the first place because Alex, the child you are strengthening to help her charm his classmates, is exposed to intimidation by his peers and neglecting by adults in his community.

There is an adult (his teacher, Justin) trying to communicate with him, but she has been repeatedly reprimanded to help her students outside the dynamic of a strict teacher/student. The true human relationship is inhibited in this town, which is why Alex can seize the witch for more than a month without any of the neighbors (even those on his own street).

In “prisoners”, the dark darkness in the city is not just kidnapping the two girls, but rather the fact that Alex was mentally ill (Paul Dano) a victim of kidnapping For more than a decade, he ignored his suffering by society around him. The key to both films is that horror does not actually start with an accident that incites the story; With both films, horror was brewing for years before the city was forced at the expense of the results.