He follows him around and that's it? Why?
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TwoThousandOneMark — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 10:25 PM)
The more times I re-watch it, the more I believe that Michael wants very little to do with harming the children.
His first kill on the street, after the dog, is only after Lindsay is brought across the street to watch movies with Tommy.
The film's opening scene is his crux, when he was a kid himself. I think he's still a juvenile within. In a way, at the school, he's standing up to Tommy's bully for him.
He cruises along watching Tommy, & before we can imagine wtf that's about, it's as if he departs & opts not to go further as he does stalking Laurie on her way home.
I say all that not knowing anything about the sequels which I've never cared about watching, not least this film is standalone enough for me.
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TwoThousandOneMark — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 07:25 PM)
I guess we're to place Michael in a child's mind, thus sparing fellow 'children' as he seems to hold that very identity of himself as child.
Just as he needs to hide within a mask to go through with anything, not just to kill yet to stalk & be seen. The mask seems to let his juvenile ego run free.
We see his face for a second near the end, as Carpenter cast someone to look 'angelic' (i.e. childlike) for that single shot. Every other shot of Michael is an entirely separate actor. He's nearly completely vulnerable to Laurie without the mask.
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TwoThousandOneMark — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 10:51 AM)
btw, I've not seen a single sequel, other than Halloween 3 which really isn't. I do know they've been mostly panned by critics, & yet with that childlike ego play, I wonder if the series could've benefited by chasing that idea & really making Michael a more layered character? Maybe an army of children could turn on him & defeat him.
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dave626 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 02:35 PM)
You should see the sequels and judge for yourself. Yes, it's panned because of individual opinion, which by definition varies from person to person. I for one, found each sequel up until the last film to have something that made it worth my watching it, whether it was story, which got layered, but some would say poorly, the creative forces, the actors/actresses, etc. there was always something. Even as much as I disliked Halloween 2 2009 version, it did have beautiful women.
"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN