indeed like kord concluded, the strategy of horror films is to elicit the guilt by making the audience identify themselves with the persecutor rather than the victims. beyond the scopophilia and identification/allegiance, this film is also multilayered regarding to the speciality, the death, the corporeality, the psychoanalysis and cine-reflexivity
Sometimes I think all three of us got in that car. All of this is a dream, in reality, we're still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imaging what our lives would have been if we'd escaped. (Tim Robbins又演冤大头了><)