YMMV / Bodies Bodies Bodies

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• Alternate Aesop Interpretation:
  • The film serves as a critique of Gen Z moral absolutism, but it could also serve as a lesson about responsible drug use. The characters spend the movie coping with the stressful situation they're in by doing drugs, including smoking weed, popping Xanax, snorting cocaine, and consuming some unknown drug that's hidden in a board game container, which further convolutes the group's growing paranoia and fear of the killer. Perhaps in a safer location, this wouldn't be as bad but the characters are also doing drugs in an isolated place away from immediate help with no designated driver in case of emergency, and the only person sober at first is Sophie, who is a recovering addict. If David hadn't been high, it's possible that he would have been in a better state of mind and wouldn't have killed himself in such a stupid way, and in turn spare the rest of the cast, and even if he did, at least two or three deaths could have possibly been avoided if the characters hadn’t taken more drugs and were more sound of mind.
  • There could also be a moral about being safe with weaponry and not treating them like toys. Jordan steals a gun from David's family and holds it very casually while she's under the influence of drugs and in a heated argument, and she ends up shooting Alice and escalating the situation to a violent conclusion. David also kills himself by using the Gurka sword very unsafely for a TikTok, and it was mentioned that it was easily accessible, as David's family hangs it on the wall.
• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Bee. Although we learn that she is "innocent" (in as much as she isn't the slasher-style villain the girls initially thought, though she does kill two people), it's also debatable whether she's actually telling Sophie and the others the truth about her backstory. She's supposedly a college dropout who has a sick mother to tend to... but she doesn't seek further employment when she loses her job, and immediately jumps at the opportunity to spend a weekend with her girlfriend's rich friends. Although she's not a psychopath, it's up to interpretation whether her intentions or goals were actually noble or honest.
  • Whether Sophie actually killed Emma on purpose is left up to the audience, as Sophie is the only living witness of the death, and she reveals her guilt after it costs Jordan and Alice's lives. Was it genuinely an accident after she gave Emma sleeping pills? Or was she angry and fed up at how Emma was begging for attention so soon after David, who was Emma's boyfriend and Sophie's best friend, died in front of them, and, in a drug-fueled rage, pushed her down the stairs?
  • Because of the film's Black-and-Gray Morality and that the group as a whole is a bunch of Unreliable Narrators, who you see as more of a victim in Sophie's dynamic with her friends can change depending on what you believe. Is Sophie a manipulative Attention Whore who acts like a victim to avoid criticism and who put unnecessary stress on her friends with her addiction, making her call out of Emma and Jordan hypocritical? Or is everyone else horribly unempathetic to her struggling and hypocritical in their more positive treatment of Alice and David (who are also addicts, but are white and richer than the rest), while being unwilling to relent on the partying for Sophie's sake? Or is it somewhere in the middle, where everybody has a point?
• Crosses the Line Twice: The whole film is full of this.
  • While having your friends die violent deaths and being stranded in a life-or-death scenario is anyone's worst nightmare, the film manages to make it hysterical due to the fact that everyone involved is a vapid, narcissistic moron who worsens the situation at every turn possible.
  • When Jordan shoots Alice in the leg, it marks as a point of tension in the debacle between the four remaining girls. However, Alice's vocal complaining about how bad it hurts to be shot and how pissed she is that Jordan dared to shoot her, followed by a rather pathetic Gun Struggle turn it into something quite comedic.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Alice has been repeatedly cited as the favorite of the cast, with Rachel Sennott putting in an excellent performance as the histrionic and tone-deaf ditz of the group.

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