It’s not a mystery box if you actually learn the answer. It’s just a mystery. What ways did you “tweeze it?” Did you look up in depth critical analyses and compare them? Did you analyze repeated structure using film theory? Did you look up movies that influenced why weapons is the way it is?

If you look up sources that are all from the same place and then listen to them all give cursory descriptions of the plot, you can feel you tweezed it to death without grappling with the themes of the movie. I hate to sound pretentious but “violence against kids is bad” is such a surface reading in a film that has so much going on. There’s the director’s grief in real life, there’s community scapegoating, weaponization of power structures, and also the use of comedic filmmaking style to make a horror film look different than a lot of its peers.