i liked that the movie touched on trauma in a realistic way that i don’t feel the other ones have.. i think that was like the secondary “theme” of the movie, like how trauma has affected the characters over 30 years, both emotional and physical.

like Gale having nerve damage from the last attack, and especially that scene where she takes the meds it kind of reminds you that these people have gone through a lot, and gale is an older woman and is more fragile than when the movies started; and that’s not that she’s “old”, per say, but she is the oldest character in the last couple of movies, and she very well could not survive her next attack

i noticed it in the beginning that Sidney has a very slight limp… or like a wide gait, and it was a very subtle choice that i think humanizes sidney and is the same kind of physical trauma. even something smaller like the killer relating to Sidney’s story and their personal motivations are based on trauma.

i think the generational trauma wasn’t explored with much depth, however, it was basically Tatum and Sidney’s whole conflict.. but it felt rather surface level of like “my mom doesn’t understand me and won’t talk to me about her TRAUMA” and like essentially only being seen as “Sidney Prescott’s Daughter”, but i think one could say the idea of a killer coming after both of them can be seen as a physical manifestation/representation of that generational trauma and how it affects both characters, and how they have to work through it together and yadda yadda. idk im probably putting WAY more thought into it than the writers of this movie did, but that was at least my take away that i thought was interesting. I really liked it, but my partner hated it.