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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Children of the Corn
amanda-watson82 — 11 years ago(November 01, 2014 12:55 PM)
I'm a pretty logical person, and it's difficult for me to watch movies that don't make sense. Do these kids not realize that they'll eventually become adults too? Would they turn on each other? Or do they kill adults because they're nonbelievers? If that's the case then why wouldn't Burt and Vicki pretend to believe?
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ginger-51 — 11 years ago(November 08, 2014 10:35 AM)
That's the whole point of the story, though. They send the older "kids" out into the corn (to die) when they get too old. At 18, right? IT's been a long time since I've seen the original (I was disappointed to watch the remake more recently, it was HORRIBLE) but don't they try to get the teen girls to have babies to keep their population up before they reach the age where they kill them? That's the whole basis of their "religion." Well, that and corn.
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ElectricWarlock — 10 years ago(May 01, 2015 09:00 AM)
In the remake it shows two of the older kids having sex to make more children while the younger ones jump up and down watching in joy. The boy's 19th birthday is coming up so it implies he will die soon in the end. Nothing like that in this movie, though.
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preachcaleb — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 08:33 AM)
Do these kids not realize that they'll eventually become adults too? Would they turn on each other?
Yes. They know they go out into the corn rows at age 19. There are two whole scenes devoted to this with Amos.
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residentevil6901 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 06:14 PM)
But it makes perfect sense, their God in the corn field is a deity. They do what it wants them too which means sacrificing themselves once they reach 19 years old. If they're fine with doing that then how does it not make sense? If Vicki & Burt pretended to be believers the next step would've been for them to sacrifice themselves to He Who Walks Behind The Rows.