In Zach Cregger's film Weapons, the disappearance of seventeen children from the same class triggers a contentious reaction among parents, directed at their teacher, Justine. The film sheds light on contemporary anxieties about schools as battlegrounds for cultural conflicts, echoing recent societal concerns. Structured in chapters reflecting different perspectives, the screenplay shifts between the teacher, a grieving father, the school principal, and an involved local cop. The narrative opens with a chilling warning about the fate of various characters throughout the story.
In Zach Cregger's Weapons, the parents have good reason to be upset. Seventeen children have gone missing, rising as one in the dead of night and running out into the streets, leaving only their teacher, Justine, and one remaining boy, Alex.
Like Cregger's previous work, Weapons isn't a movie about contemporary anxieties so much as it is around them. Split into chapters named for a point of view, Cregger's screenplay hopscotches from one character to the next.
Weapons draws strength from cultural tensions without settling on any particular stance, highlighting the anxieties surrounding schools as sites of culture-war skirmishes.
Narration from an unidentified girl warns the audience that in the story we're about to see, 'A lot of people die in a lot of weird ways.'
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