But the later scenes in the movie seem more-not less-exploitative. Is there some kind of social message here? Some overarching purpose? If there were, then the material itself would not automatically be offensive. (Does he succeed? The movie's shifty editing seems to permit two conclusions.) This scene is paired with another in which an injured bird is killed by a bouncing basketball.
Indeed, under the urging of the boy, he seems to regress to his earlier state, and there is the particularly nasty scene where he attempts to gas a neighbor's cat in his oven. Now move!" The movie at least doesn't present the old man as repentant. He brings the old man a Nazi uniform, makes him put it on and orders him to march around the kitchen: "Attention! March! Face right!" When the old man protests, young Todd barks: "What you've suffered with me is nothing compared to what the Israelis would do to you. And climbing, they died in a mountain of themselves." Soon the boy undergoes a transformation into a bit of a Nazi himself. And the film, to its shame, allows him to linger on details: "Although the gas came from the nozzles at the top, still they tried to climb. No one can tell it better than you." The old man is outraged, but trapped. Everything they were afraid to tell us in school. Using Internet databases and dusting the old guy's mailbox for fingerprints, Todd determines that this is indeed a wanted man and confronts him with a strange demand: "I want to hear all about it. Bran Renfro is the co-star, as Todd Bowen, a bright high school kid who after a week's study of the Holocaust, notices a resemblance between a Nazi criminal and the old man down the street.
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