Weapons (2025) was an absolute blast. Not gonna get into spoilers, but I found it to be thematically rich and a lot of fun. The ways in which we have systems and social niceties but no community. How all of these “safety measures” like the cops, the Ring cameras, and the school rules on professionalism all failed, barely contributed, or actively got in the way of solving things. The idea of the children and their safety being weaponized to form a mob. How people can manipulate the social expectations of family, professionalism, and even our empathy to abuse us. How children are an oppressed class.
It was also subtle, funny, tense, and all of the acting was top notch. Amazingly done by the guy who jerked off a ghost in WKUK
my only take from Weapons - the commentary on how community doesn’t exist in america unless tragedy knocks at their doorstep. hard. even then what people form - it’s not a community, more like a mob. and no one wants to work together (that mom who didn’t want to share cctv footage). no one listens (911 operator didn’t inform the police right away about the call from the drug addict; no matter how ridiculous that call sounded, they had to check it out bc it’s been a month! and they had no leads! and yet…). no one talks (that teacher who saw Alex at the parking lot waiting alone). the system affects us all. it doesn’t differentiate between big cities and small towns. it doesn’t care and it will never care.
that part of weapons where alex is simultaneously keeping himself, his classmates, and his parents alive while slowly becoming desensitized to the horrors surrounding him and suffering in silence as the adults around him are too focused on treating justine as a scapegoat to see what’s lurking right under their noses like THIS POOR BABY
