No, I’m really interested.

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    2 days ago

    Are they friendly? Or do they just act that way just to lead the boy away? They’ve been watching for a while, why didn’t they step in and offer to help before?

    I used to think your way, that there was a glimmer of hope at the end of the bleakest book I’ve ever read, then somebody explained it to me that way, and that glimmer flickered out.

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        42 minutes ago

        Watching it again, I was wary because the guy was just telling the kid what he wanted to hear. But when the rest of the family showed up, it looked like they might be okay, but only because they have a dog. I doubt the dog would hang around with people who were cruel to others. Besides, they probably would have eaten the dog by now.

        I don’t remember the dog being in the book, so the bleakest interpretation, that the people will turn out to be bad, might work for the book better than the film.