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eroock Since: Sep, 2012
Nov 2nd 2018 at 12:56:14 PM •••

I proposed following entry:

  • Fauxshadowing: Early on, Jeremiah asks Brother Swan to offer up the blond chubby disciple. Later during the home invasion scene, we see chubby guy being dragged away by one of the bikers. Neither his (nor Mandy's) death is shown to us. Next thing we get is a body bag being set on fire. This scene seem carefully constructed to hide the identity of the figure inside the bag. At this point, the attentive viewer would smell something is fishy. It looks likely that the group put chubby guy in the bag as a Fake Kill Scare for Red. However, nothing comes of this hinted scenario, rendering the whole "chubby guy must die" subplot irrelevant.

The entry was deleted by a user who claimed that chubby guy was killed on screen so he could not serve for this trope. I don't think that is in the movie. Anybody else had the same feeling about the body in the bag being chubby guy?

Edited by eroock Hide / Show Replies
Sarcasmosuchus Since: Feb, 2016
Jun 7th 2020 at 4:40:43 AM •••

Honestly, it seems like you're reading too much into it. I don't think the scene gives us a reason to assume that anybody other than Mandy is in the bag. The order of events is pretty umambiguous: Jeremiah tries to seduce her, she just laughs at him, he gets furious and then kills her in revenge for his humiliation.

The chubby cultist is just a minor background character who doesn't even get a single line of dialogue. His death isn't shown in detail because it's irrelevant; he only exists to show that Jeremiah has no qualms about sacrificing his own disciples for his personal gain. There is no deeper meaning behind it.

Edited by Sarcasmosuchus Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
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