First, I have to say that I have not seen this movie. But I saw a movie review for it that said that it was cool when they got to the part about: “Grandma, what big eyes you’ve got, etc.” (You’d think with Amanda Seyfried, the wolf could say: “Big eyes? Compared to who? You? I don’t think so!”) This got me wondering, was the grandmother the werewolf? She’s got a cabin out in the woods (in the fairy tale), right? What if, in this movie, her family had decided to put her in an old-folks home (which is the cabin in the woods), and that to get revenge for being cast off and ignored, she sells her soul to the devil for the ability to become a werewolf. Then she can punish everyone for the plight of edler-abuse victims and lonely, neglected grandparents. It would be totally zeitgeisty, what with the debate over slashing Medicare budgets to control the debt, the Obamacare “death panels” accusations, and our ever-increasing life-expectancies, etc. Right? Hey, I’d see that movie! Maybe it could be sponsored by the AARP.
