"other boys would have, but i didn’t, so that makes me better."
one of the most unsettling things about adolescence is how it presents masculinity—not as something inherently toxic, but as something that has been hijacked, distorted, and weaponised. jamie isn’t an anomaly; he’s a product of a culture that equates manhood with dominance, emotional repression, and, ultimately, violence. the film doesn’t ask us to solve a mystery—it forces us to watch, helplessly, as a regular teenage boy becomes radicalised…
