The Treehouse
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BoSoxRule — 13 years ago(June 28, 2012 12:40 PM)
"We don't know if the parents knew about the treehouse since it seemed to be something that Henry built himself."
Yeah, because that's believable that a child could've built a treehouse a mile off the ground himself.
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zachary1998 — 14 years ago(September 18, 2011 07:01 PM)
I don't think Henry's mother knew about the treehouse just like a lot of stuff about Henry.
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magolding — 14 years ago(March 27, 2012 09:43 PM)
When the ladder broke under Mark and Henry pulled him up, there was no obvious way for them to get down safely again.
So maybe the rest of the movie is something which Mark dreams while starving to death up in the tree house! -
fallen_anakin — 13 years ago(April 14, 2012 04:25 PM)
I read the novel adaptation of this and here is a bit of info regarding the tree house. I don't remember exactly but it was something about when Mark climbs down he sees nails on the ground like they had been ripped out of a chunk of wood. Meaning that Henry had purposely made the board loose for Mark when he stepped on it. Henry I am assuming was able to pull himself up and skip stepping on that board. He either planned to kill Mark(if he wasn't able to grab his hand on time) or maybe just give him a scare if he was able to grab his hand on time(which he did).
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eric_m_bi — 13 years ago(April 15, 2012 02:20 PM)
I was also surprised that the treehouse was that tall; later, I assumed that we were looking at things from a child's point of view and that the filmmakers exaggerated the height to give that perception of things being higher/bigger than they really were since children are smaller than adults.
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strvngartist5 — 13 years ago(July 01, 2012 04:15 PM)
I actually thought the treehouse was believable in the context of the movie and the time period. I don't think any good parent today would just let their kids play in something that dangerous, but parents have gotten a lot more safety-conscious in the last 15 years or so. I was around that age in the 90's, and I know I played on dangerous stuff all the time. Often, parents would just let their kids take off in the morning until lunchtime like the parents in the film. Also, as you might recall, the parents had no idea exactly what Henry was up to when he went off with Mark or by himself. They definitely didn't know what was in that shed.
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adouthit-1 — 11 years ago(November 04, 2014 09:03 AM)
I assumed they probably didn't know about the treehouse. They most likely didn't know about any of the dangerous stuff he was doing.
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rtw416 — 10 years ago(November 22, 2015 05:33 AM)
Before cell phones and being able to monitor anyone anywhereit's possible the tree house wasn't even known to the parents and may not have even been on their property.
Growing up in the late 70's early 80's-there was a wooded track of land off a old railroad yard,that me and my friends treated as our own little world.Adventure and imagination ruled-had our parents known what we were up to down there,we'd be locked up in our homes.So,I think the boys would've gotten away with such a dangerous hang out. -
fallen_anakin — 10 years ago(December 04, 2015 09:12 PM)
This shows the line between somewhat normal kid behavior and stuff that is truly twisted. You can see it building up in the movie in the scene where Henry almost kills the cat. In that scene with the cat it is the first we see Henry is going beyond just getting into innocent trouble . Well maybe the first scene was actually when he looked down holding Mark and asked him that question which was so inappropriate at the time. But anyway things like climbing the high tree house,throwing rocks through the abandoned wheerehouse windows,and even smoking are kind of innocent kid antics. In the novel there was another scene. Henry stood on train tracks up until the oncoming train got super close and then jumped away. He also stood really close to edge of cliff with his toes sticking over the edge and asked Mark.to do the same but kind of helped Mark when Mark felt himself falling forward. Again a little dangerous and irresponsible behavior but nothing psychopathic.We see that Henry goes beyond this into darker territory later.Mark realizes this when he sees Henry purposely shoot the dog.
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