I suppose the main theme is that revenge is too often blinding and unhoned to the point of taking out innocent people. And dig two graves...blah blah blah. But that is hardly a reason to make a supposedly serious movie with so many half-conceived main characters.
Are we meant to have any sympathy for Tubs and Mandrake as to care about the force driving them and the plot when they appear to be simple killing machines with no sense of vengeful focus?
Because if this body count is what happens when it's just a guy who knew about (but didn't report) the horrors they suffered - as is implied, did they wipe out the towns and every living relative of the people who actually did the evil deeds that created them? (You know the unfortunately pretentious Frankenstein reference that is entirely out of context.)
There is danger in making the motivations of killers haphazardly known as this movie does. It is clearly trying for a very Southern Gothic story. In fact, the plot is heavily in the style of Flannery O'Connor. But even she knew to never reveal the "why" because irrational antagonists with an unknown motive are far scarier.
That's why this movie doesn't work for me.
Are we meant to have any sympathy for Tubs and Mandrake as to care about the force driving them and the plot when they appear to be simple killing machines with no sense of vengeful focus?
Because if this body count is what happens when it's just a guy who knew about (but didn't report) the horrors they suffered - as is implied, did they wipe out the towns and every living relative of the people who actually did the evil deeds that created them? (You know the unfortunately pretentious Frankenstein reference that is entirely out of context.)
There is danger in making the motivations of killers haphazardly known as this movie does. It is clearly trying for a very Southern Gothic story. In fact, the plot is heavily in the style of Flannery O'Connor. But even she knew to never reveal the "why" because irrational antagonists with an unknown motive are far scarier.
That's why this movie doesn't work for me.