Hello Everyone, newbie member here, first post.
(copying and pasting because I couldn't find original post
"I noticed that, too.
I found this website:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266867/
It has a good description of what malnutrition does to puberty.
Another oddity, to me at least. The older girls are wearing heels during the 'weddings'. I didn't expect that."
Can life be stranger than fiction? There's a movie that came out a few years back, "Dogtooth" (from Greece so you have to read subtitles) that was shown briefly in one LA theater for Oscar consideration so not many people have seen it... Only 3 kids - all grown up - in this movie, spend their whole lives in the confine of a villa in the suburbs. No maids, no phone, no tv/radio. Dad is the control freak, mom subservient accomplice. Both in their 50s still having an active sex life together. Wealthy family, dad a factory owner. The kids are well fed and clothed, free to roam within the set boundaries. Everyday dad drives off to work and the gate shuts. It won't open again until he comes home in the evening.
Dogtooth is meant to be a tooth molar that dad tells the children when that falls off they will be able to set foot outside the gate and the "monsters" will not eat them (they thought a little cat wandering in was a monster and reacted accordingly.) When there is a plane flying overhead, mom would eventually "find" a toy plane in the garden and tells the children that it has landed. No religious indoctrination IIRC.
When the children become adults (physically) dad sees to it that their sex lives also taken care of (especially that of the boy). btw this is not a sexploitation movies, the sex is only part of the "normal" education of the children. At the end one of them escapes. Worth taking a look if you can find it, on line or wherever (I found my copy at the flea market, the movie made a splash on the art house circuit when it first came out so they put it on dvd.) One detail of the Perris children that resonates with me in regard to the movie is when the older girls walking in on heels in one of the Elvis wedding videos you could tell they are clearly doing it for the first time; and the awkward dancing - which I haven't watched - is demonstrated amply in the movie.
I'm dying to find out what made the 17 old run away (snap), one girl was allowed to drive and how that piece of info came about? The press conference btw is a total nothingburger, why bother? The kids dressed alike (albeit in sets) and taken out in public jog my memory back to the cult mass suicide in San Diego (was it Heaven's gate?) where all members dressed alike and went out for pizza and star wars/trek movies the night before.
