I majored in psychology. The "shadow people" are painfully moronic.

Rating: 3/10 (23 March 2019)

I wanted to like this film. It started out strong. But let's cut to the core of the story, which caused me to want to leave.
If you know you know simple basics about human behavior then you know that the "shadow people's" (there is a term for them that I don't want to look up now) behavior is stunningly unrealistic. Let's say that they're idiots who can't formulate sentences and act in barbaric ways. Fine. Even the basest *animals* aren't going to stick around and do tricks for overlords who aren't even present and aren't presenting a system of punishments and rewards to them.

Even the lowest I.Q. people would have escaped such inhuman conditions long before the girl had the idea. When they show flashback scenes in which they do mimicked movements there is no one who is barking orders at them. There is no one who is standing guard over them with weapons. There is no reason for them to even be there. There are just cameras that are mounted on the walls, which are apparently useless-- a little girl escapes easily.
I have profound difficulty with accepting that millions of idiots thought that such conditions were acceptable until a "topsider" child informed them that they could have better lives then they remained patient enough
(FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS) to escape en masse in a calculated way..... to form a human chain.
What the hell did I just watch?