@Robertjl It was a themed english class! Much of the same requirements, but the material studied was The Shining, Locke and Key, The Texas Chainsaw massacre, etc. I primarily focused on horror literature like Frankenstein and dracula, but also got to write about comics and games!
I was in a horror studies class last year where we watched this as a class before discussing it. So many of my classmates, and even my professor (whom I adore) found Franklin annoying. His presence was an inconvenience. A burden. This is how the film presents his disability.
There's a 78 second shot in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of Franklin struggling to get into the house while his friends are all having fun upstairs where you can see his frustration and isolation turn his sadness into anger and I think it's the most important shot of the film
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Franklin's infatuation with their family is partially due to them accepting the abnormal, but also partially spurred on by his isolation. If he were born into their family, they would likely unequivocally accept him.
In stark contrast to this, the cannibal family ADORES their disabled family member. Franklin's sister escapes because they want to include their grandpa in the killing, and he repeatedly fails due to his disability. Even despite that failure, they help and aid him.
They aborted my duo.
I can't stop thinking that the gamer who would have ranked up with me was aborted in this timeline, and that's why I soloq. In another alternate timeline, their mother didn't abort them, and they grew up to duo with me. I must be very high ranked there.
Cats are the actual favorites of heaven, too: kill too many and watch yiur civilization decimated by the black plague.
Dogs, on the other hand, have been cast as the guardians of hell from time immemorial.
I won't fall for heretical pro demonic dog propaganda.