
a review by vNEURO
5 years ago·May 21, 2020

a review by vNEURO
5 years ago·May 21, 2020
I really liked how the main characteristic of Isabella was how she wanted her children to survive for as long as they could which we can see in her expression when Emma refuses to become a mother or when they children escape and she lets them go covering up their tracks. This characteristic of survival can also be seen more selfishly in Isabella by calling the pursuers on to the kids, likely in hopes of not getting in trouble with the demons, and choosing to become a mother fully aware of everything that is going on. Another example is when she thinks that Ray burned himself alive and all she could think of was harvesting the brain of Ray We also get to see how this farm is a cycle, and similar to Emma where Norman dies, for Isabella, Leslie dies and they both cannot do anything to save them. The mother at first wanted all of the children to live as long as they could which is 12 years old, but when she finally saw they could escape she chose not to stop them and hide their tracks.
I liked the parallel drawn during Krone's death scene with the children eating food and the demon eating Krone.
I did not like the flashback during Krone's death scene. Personally I feel that adding that flashback undermined the story in an attempt to make the viewer care more about Krone before she died. It felt like the writer took a shortcut in explaining Krone's backstory.
Another scene I liked when Don got angry at Ray, Emma, and Norman, but it was not because they lied to him. It was because he was not strong enough to be trusted with the truth later explaining that he was not mad at them, but instead he was mad at himself for being "ignorant and powerless."
I also really liked how well they tied so many elements of the story. Some examples are Krone not being able to tell the mother that Ray is a spy and Ray not being able to tell the mother that Krone is working with them. How Krone was wondering why Norman and Emma were asking about the tracking device even they already knew how it worked which was later explained because the children had to be convinced that they were living on a farm so they listened through the door without Krone's knowledge.
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The scene where Ray asked his mother with a smile why she gave birth to him because he has memories of when he was a fetus and with the mother responding "it was for survival" was also a great scene since we see the mother only gave birth to Ray for her own survival and Ray is now aware of that. We see that Ray's character develops into a trope called the load-bearing hero where he bears the job of escaping with his family. We see that Ray is able to hold up this burden but comes to realize that he has let so many children die and sets himself up for a heroic sacrifice but it would as an atoner since he feels he has done wrong. We see that this escape could have been done without a heroic sacrifice which would instead have made it a stupid sacrifice.
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