{"id":4981,"date":"2021-11-10T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/patterns-of-representation-in-the-horror-genre\/analysis-of-the-children-2009\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:30:08","slug":"analysis-of-the-children-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/patterns-of-representation-in-the-horror-genre\/analysis-of-the-children-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of The Children (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Movie: The Children<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Production Year: 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tubi Provided Summary: A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to violently turn on their parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Film Can Be Accessed At: https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/417719\/the-children?start=true<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does This Movie Pass The Bechdel Test: Yes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Analysis:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elaine: Sweet, caring, maternal, feminine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jonah: Caring, loving to his children, educator, feminine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chloe: \u201cHippie\u201d, sweet, maternal, feminine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robbie: Goofy, druggie, playful, masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Casey: Emo teenager, secretly caring, mix of masculine and feminine traits<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miranda: Oldest daughter of Elaine and Jonah<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paulie: Son of Elaine and Jonah<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leah: Daughter of Chloe and Robbie<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nicky: Son of Chloe and Robbie<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robbie: First to die, extended death scene, sleds headfirst into a garden rake before mutilated and finally dying off-screen, killed by Nicky<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paulie: Second to die, quick death scene, skewered on a glass shard, killed by Elaine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chloe: Third to die, killed off-screen, stabbed in the die and killed off-screen, killed by Nicky and Leah<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nicky: Fourth to die, quick death scene, skewered on a wood shard, killed by Casey<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jonah: Fifth to die, killed off-screen, attacked in the car and killed off-screen, killed by Miranda<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miranda: Sixth to die, quick death scene, hit by a car, killed by Elaine<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survival Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No confirmed survival<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Statistics:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Sex Ratio: 5 Females: 4 Males<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Survivor Ratio: 0 Females: 0 Males (not including ambiguous characters)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Death Ratio: 40% of Females to 75% of Males (not including ambiguous characters)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Takeaways:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Children is an interesting and unusual watch in the horror genre. Aside from its lack of typical horror tropes, such as unsettling settings, dark environments, or unrealistic circumstances, the antagonists of the film are none other than the children expected to be the innocent victims. Additionally, the majority of the characters have mostly feminine traits, even the male characters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The film is also an unusual one in the horror genre due to its passing the Bechdel test easily. Additionally, although the cast was fairly equally matched by sex, the death ratio was not. More males died in the film and additionally, particularly gruesome endings were mostly saved for the male character with all ambiguous endings saved for female characters. Due to this analysis with the Sex Role perspective and The Children passing the Bechdel test, this film makes for a surprisingly progressive film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie: The Children \u00a0 Production Year: 2009 &nbsp; Tubi Provided Summary: A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to violently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[187],"tags":[112],"splot_meta":{"author":"Ariana Nichols","license":"","source":"IMDb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}