Movie recs

“Wrath of Becky” is on Netflix. It’s the sequel to the eponymous(?) “Becky.”

So because of that, I’mma make a list of some movies you might be interested in watching:

• Weapons (horror)
• It’s What’s Inside (bodyswap)
• Mayhem (ultraviolence)
• Talk to Me (supernatural horror)
• Becky (ultraviolence)
• Wrath of Becky (ultraviolence)
• Bodies Bodies Bodies (group paranoia)
• Perfect Days (introspective)
• The Monkey (supernatural horror)
• Companion (sci-fi horror)
• Trick r Treat (supernatural horror)

Depending on your taste in movies, you probably don’t want to just dive on in watching these movies. I know that some people don’t like horror and especially jump scares, so you might want to watch a trailer or something first.

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“Becky” and “Wrath of Becky” are ultraviolence movies featuring a teenaged child in “Becky.” And she’s still a minor in “Wrath of Becky.”

It’s bad luck that the escaped Knotsy criminals broke out of prison to retrieve something that was at Becky’s family’s summer home. That at some point during the year when the family wasn’t around, dangerous criminals met up on their property and hid something in one of the structures. An area where children like to play. And that they had to retrieve it to complete their plans.

Becky and her family would never have faced such terribly dangerous people if members of the group those people belonged to hadn’t at some point been on their property. Doing stuff.

And you can kind of tell from the escaped criminals mien that they would have rather not had to deal with Becky or her family at all.

I don’t think most regular criminals want to involve non-participants into their dangerous crimes.

It’s much easier to break into a structure and get something if you don’t have to worry that there’s already people inside.

That said, he does not hesitate to order his men to do violence on Becky’s family.

He and his men are violent people. They have a mission and they’re not going to let anything stand in their way.

And of course they were going to kill Becky and her whole family the moment they showed up. It’s regretful, but they are escapees from maximum security federal criminals that killed the guards to escape. PLUS they are Knotsys that have a big ol’ tatertotplot to perform. Their boss is waiting for them to bring him the goods to make it all happen.

The second Becky found that thing, her family was an instant target.

Because even if those prisoners had never shown up at the summer house, whoever else that got sent would have to retrieve the item. Which could have meant them showing up at Becky’s regular house in the fall.

She could have come home from school to find her family dead.

And those guys would have been waiting for her, because she was the one to find it. And she was the one that took it.

I don’t think her father would give her up, but once they tortured him enough that they accepted he wasn’t the one to take it, then Becky would be the only one that could have.

Whoever hid that thing on the property was the one to kill people.

Like, all they had to do was hide it somewhere just off the property. They could have put it in a box and buried it.

But instead they hid it amongst stuff that obviously belonged to children.

That was cold blooded. And evidently a huge mistake when Becky starts going on her rampage.

I realize that “Becky” and “Wrath of Becky” aren’t for everyone. It is ultraviolence performed by a child in a believable way for a believable reason.

“Becky” kind of makes me think of “Where the Wild Things Are.” Becky is at the age of adventure and running through the woods “playing war.” Like, Peter Pan and skulking around and Calvin and Hobbes, all rolled into the personality of a child desperate to save her loved ones.

That she was arguing with her dad and she’d been acting out so much and basically screaming out as loud as she can “Dad, I am in emotional pain!” without ever saying the words, it is understandable that she would have big emotions.

She was grieving the loss of a loved one.

She became like Pippi Longstockings but with violence.

I don’t know. There was something about the cinematography in “Becky” that felt nostalgic. It reminded me of childhood, or of how childhood was presented to me in children’s media.

Like, they didn’t focus on it, but in Narnia those kids were killing people. Susan put arrows through so many enemies.

Cool to help out Aslan and all that, but he was basically calling forth child soldiers to do his bidding.

Children have gone to war many times.

There was even a Children’s Crusade where a bunch of them died on the way to the Crusades.

Becky was at that age where there’s an awareness that death should be avoided but also a sense that “Death can’t touch me! I’m the main character!” She did not hesitate to go out and fight, because she was already primed for a fight.

But yeah, at it’s base, “Becky” is the story of an unfortunate family dealing with the consequences of someone trespassing on their property.

Which is a crime, by the way. Or at least, it’s something you can call the police to complain about.

So all of the trouble that happened in the movie “Becky” could have been avoided if those Knotsys had not decided to break in and hide something on the family’s property.

Which means none of the stuff that happened in “Wrath of Becky” would have happened.

And some people might say that the events of “Becky” were “a necessary evil.” Because if she was not there in “Wrath of Becky,” she would have been safe at home with her dad and family. She might have dealt with her loss in a healthy way and made new connections and had a bright future of her own.

She was a smart kid. Clever and physically active; talented in ways of strategy.

Who knows what kind of life she could have lived. Whether the loss of that Might-Have-Been is more or less of a loss compared to the greater good she might have done in “Wrath of Becky.”

And we don’t know, but it’s something to wonder about.

“Becky” and “Wrath of Becky” might not be movies you will ever want to see. But they were somewhat satisfying “revenge” stories.

She was going full Boadicea.

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