Comments on: The Little Things Movie Discussed and Explained

By: Sasha Dence

Sasha Dence — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:41:10 +0000

Definitely aiming for ambiguity – and that is a bit forced, seems to me. Almost as though the director/writer wanted a kind of “gotcha” moment in the sense that we can feel like we should realise that good and evil are grey areas. It seems like that was the point – but I think it fails because they aren’t. While the detectives are “no angels” and make some major mistakes, like killing the wrong people! they are good people, or at least, want to be. The Sparma character does not want to be. He wants to make other people miserable. While ultimately there may not be easy justice or uncomplicated characters or moral clarity, the detectives and the suspect– at least as much as is given to the viewer to know — are not coming from the same place. The detectives are trying to find someone who kills people other people love. They fail. They fail also in terms of their own moral code. They kill people they should not have killed. They cover up their deeds. But unlike Sparma they do not enjoy inflicting pain. They are not aroused by someone else’s murder (again, at least as far as the viewer can see) which to me is a bit damning for Sparma regardless of whether he is in fact the killer. That the dectectives both lose their cool at different points while not admirable, sure is understandable. One has had his life wrecked already and had a heart attack. The other is having his life wrecked because he cares too much — seeing his children as possible victims. He is exhausted, he is almost falling alseep on his feet, the suspect ridicules, bullies, gaslights and taunts him into committing a crime. As he said earlier when the other detective lost his cool in the interrogation room, “you lost control!” He achieved his ends which is to make good people do bad things. That makes him a killer in my books regardless of whether he actually kills. He loves killing — he celebrates those who do and enjoys the suffering they cause.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:39:55 +0000

Bah, unlike most sites where the author avoids “influencing” or “affecting” the comments, I find the comments the most fun of any post I write. Why post if you aren’t wanting to engage and discuss where you are wrong, or other ideas to better clarify the movie?? So yeah – of course you got a response! hahah. Welcome again.

I do like your Renfield analogy. I had to go back and read up about the movie to even remember it. But yeah, that really could be it. The murderer is one step away – at a remove – manipulating. I like it.

Make sure you check out Buster’s Mal Heart if you enjoy complicated movies and also Rami Malek. Barry and I will be discussing Buster when we record this week. And I’m more than a little nervous about it as it is soooo complicated. So many possible explanations. Until next time @Chris – and say hey to England for me. I miss it.

By: Chris mackey

Chris mackey — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:06:19 +0000

I’m from England and I think this film flew really under the rader in my town so I’m really late to this topic. Wow. I’m totally amazed I got a reply. Its first time Iv ever posted something. Yeah. You have become my go to writer for the stranger films out their.i look forward to adding more posts and more reviews.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:10:23 +0000

In reply to Chris Mackey.

Personally cannot even remember Little Things presently… even though I wrote this review! hahah. Just wanted to welcome you Chris to the party. If you really enjoy movies that make you think and this universe of films, we are glad you are here. Heck, we are glad you are here regardless. But you might want to also join us over on the discord as well… if you are really into this stuff. We are constantly talking about new movies over there. Happy to send you an invite if you are interested.

By: Chris Mackey

Chris Mackey — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:11:20 +0000

I’m new to this site and now I can’t stop reading reviews on it. Me own thinking on it was that Sparma was like a “familiar” type character. Like Renfield for Dracula. The real killer was someone he knew from work(possibly)and that Sparma couldn’t or didn’t ever even want to kill anyone but “got off” on being so close to it and was being used by the killer to twist the police in knots so that the killer could get away with it. Sparma aswell due to lack of evidence. So he wasn’t the killer but he wasn’t innocent and it didn’t work out to well for him in the end.

By: James

James — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:26:56 +0000

Sparma is guilty because of mile marker 467!!

By: Char

Char — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:42:42 +0000

What about Sparma having the key to the gate? No one is addressing this tiny fact. Why would he have a key to a gate in the middle of nowhere??

By: Sam Smith

Sam Smith — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:11:36 +0000

Moral of the story….. Don’t be a dickhead troller

By: Gregg

Gregg — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 03:16:53 +0000

This was not a great movie. I would not suggest my audience to watch it as I do many many movies. This movie was good, it had DW who is always good, but this is a very unsatisfying movie. It was good enough to not quit, and good enough to go in search of “what did I miss, I must have missed something?”

But no, I did not miss anything but RM’s character dug more holes. I must have looked away/been distracted and missed that, it simply looked to me like he was pathetic and whining that he killed that schmuck who pushed him to far, and DW had to complete the jerb of burying hippy boy.

By the way – hippy boy deserved to die for being such a A-H@le, and telling RM he would show him where the bodies were etc etc etc. He was a murderer even if he had (maybe) not yet killed anyone yet, he would have soon. PLUS RM did not intend to smack him in the head with a shovel, it was NOT premeditated, but hippy boy pushed him, taunted him, wound him up a like a spring and hippy boy got what he deserved…. AND RM was instantly sorry he did that. So… I forgive him.

The only problem is the real murderer is still killing people and that sucks. This movie kind of sucked. It seems like the writer had 7/8 of an amazing “tie it all together” at the end perfect movie but fell short of how to do it. The writer seemed to “almost have it”, I bet the writer struggled trying to perfect it, but in he end failed.

It is OK to not catch the murderer (as we did not catch the killer in “**ll*n” (no spoiler) a truly GREAT DW movie. BUT…. to not even allow the viewer to find out who was behind the anal light bulb caper…. come on man!

I define a great movie as being re watchable (many time) to see it all again, this movie is not that. There is not reason to re-watch this. I got it all the first time.

But I do thank the OP (TH) for this write up confirming what was going and what I might have missed… but I did not miss anything. The red berret was a good plot piece, but not a great one.