If you've seen Zach Cregger's Weapons, you probably walked out of the theater with more than a few questions. (Spoilers for the film below!)One for me was about the significance of 2:17 in the movie. The timestamp haunts the entire film. On the surface, 2:17 a.m. is the moment when this community suffered its greatest loss. It is the exact time when 17 children from Justine's (Julie Garner) third-grade class simultaneously left their homes under a hypnotic spell, leaving only Alex (Cary Christopher) behind.It also appears on a floating gun in Archer’s (Josh Brolin) fever dream, which looks like an alien craft above his own house.I know that I kept thinking about room 237 from The Shining as I was watching, so I felt like there must be some level of awareness on Cregger’s part that horror fans especially care about these things.And the number does mean something, according to Cregger, although he won't always say exactly what. Slashfilm asked about the number directly, but the director was evasive.“There's something there,” he said. When pressed, he said, “It can't be that hard to figure that one out.”The interviewer deferred, so Cregger added, “I'm not going to give you a hint, but it's not nothing. I've said in other interviews, ‘It's nothing,’ but there's something there.” This Popular Theory About 2:17 in Weapons is WrongA quick Google search will show that a lot of people are drawing connections between gun violence and the film. I saw a lot of TikTokers discussing...
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