Great movie, but I couldn’t help feeling like the joke’s on us–only it’s not a joke. The movie is a condemnation of a culture that entertains itself by watching kids kill each other, presented as a movie that entertains audiences with scenes of kids killing each other. Are we in on the critique, or are we being criticized? “What a horrible society…who would enjoy watching kids kill each other?” says the audience, which just paid $10 apiece for a fictionalized version of the same experience.
