We're assigning him moral agency, and blaming him on that basis, when he can't possibly be to blame for his circumstances, and when what he's saying makes complete sense. He's not doing anything that baby monkeys won't do if you abuse them in an experiment: the more you push them off the little cloth monkey that they think is their mother, the tighter they cling. He's doing it because he's six years old, and he wants the love of his mother, and he can't understand why she hates him. That kid isn't doing what he's doing because he's a problem child, or because he's got mental issues, or because he's in some way a bad seed. Specifically: "and the kid was just awful." That is completely inaccurate. But I would say that there are some word choices that suggest that you're missing key bits of context. It's possible that you have similar reactions to The Babadook. ![]() I couldn't understand what she was doing wrong, which meant that I couldn't understand why everyone else was lauding Tracy Flick as one of the greatest film villains of the 90s (which, if you look at review of the film upon initial release, they very clearly were). ![]() Just for example, for the very longest time, I have thought that the film Election was just a bad film, for the very simple reason that I just couldn't see what Tracy Flick was doing that made her so loathed by the rest of the audience. There have been times in my past where I just couldn't understand the cultural framework that the movie was incorporating as subtext, which meant I couldn't understand what was happening. ![]() Well, it's possible that you didn't miss anything, and the movie didn't land for you.
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