Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-397235-20140906231403

The thing that really troubled me about Wicker Man is I like Nick Cage...he just has terrible taste in movies (Ghost Rider Drive Angry Season of the Witch); it's unsettling watching him die, especially like that.

The point I'm driving at is if Mei was being deliberately vague so Kouichi would get curious then we're left with the troubling prospect that she was manipulating him into breaking the rules. Now let's examine this for a moment, shall we?

Fact 1: As far as the rest of the class is concerned, the rules are the only thing keeping them (and their families) alive.

Fact 2: Kouichi has no way of knowing this. He's more or less a babe in the woods.

Fact 3: If the rest of the class finds out they're breaking the rules...it's a safe assumption to make they won't be happy.

Granted, Mei doesn't know Kouichi isn't sure what's going on. The first thing she asks him when he approaches her at school is "Are you sure you want to be doing this?" She's not willfully manipulating him either. It's just another case of people not communicating.