A lot of people are walking out of this going, “Wow, I’m never having a kid,” which is about as far from the point as you can get. It’s not about the kid. It’s about what happens when everyone is forced to work too much, when the well-being of the caregiver is structurally deprioritized, when therapists are encouraged to maintain this weirdly professionalized, cold critical distance, and the whole thing piles up on someone who’s already running on fumes. Anyone…

I was a bit skeptical going into this. Namely, I was curious as to how this movie might endeavor to add a bit of cinematic meat to what is, in essense, a relatively sparse but entertaining anomaly horror video game. It was successful in my book. The film radically reframes anomaly horror such that the so-called anomalies in this work are either mundane discrepancies or, more critically, moral conundrums. When you notice that person being mistreated, will you do something…