Disappointed by the Strangers

Spoiler Alert-If you have not seen the movie The Strangers you may not want to read this.           

This weekend I watched the movie The Strangers.  I looked forward to watching it because generally I like scary movies.  However, I was completely disappointed by it.  The movie held no deeper meaning whatsoever.  Basically the movie consisted of a couple, James and Kristen, who spent the weekend in a house in the woods.  As they spent the night there a stranger continuously knocked on the door and then seemingly left.  Only she did not leave, she and two other strangers who wore masks continued to knock on the door aggressively.  They then broke into the house and followed the couple around stealthily.  The couple became very frightened and attempted to run away and get help.  Naturally their attempts failed and the three strangers captured and stabbed them.  When Kristen asked, “Why are you doing this to us?”  One of the strangers replies “because you were home.”  The strangers then left the couple at the house and drove away, never showing their faces.  They then encountered two Christian boys on their bikes down the road giving out pamphlets for sinners.  They stopped the car, took one and drove away.  The boys then went into the couple’s house to discover their bloody bodies.  Kristen, seemingly dead, opened her eyes and grabbed one of the boy’s arms.  The end.  This movie literally did not include any meaning.    After going through a year and a half of AP English it causes me to look at things more closely.  We analyze everything and pull meanings out of every detail of the books we read.  However, after this movie I could not find anything remotely analytical or thought provoking.  Simply a random killing because the killers could, with some added situational irony at the end when the killers pick up a pamphlet for sinners.  I sometimes get frustrated in English when we look at every tiny aspect of a book and sometimes wish the books could be simpler.  But I realized it makes books and movies much more interesting when they include hidden meanings and symbols.  Just like the books we read, it feels more fulfilling to watch a movie like Shutter Island or Inception and think the entire time and put different parts of the story together, then to watch a trivial movie like The Strangers.