Honestly, it was not my favorite movie, just because I think it was a little clichéd. While watching Night of the Hunter, I immediately saw parallels to Huck Finn. Mrs. Spoon was making me laugh; she was so naïve and stereotypically old maid-like that her little quips sounded insane. How could anyone be so dumb to take her advice? Ms. Cooper with the shotgun was really a sight though. Compared to John and Pearl's mother, she was the polar opposite. She represented a very contradictory role for that time period: a strong woman. Seeing the differences between the mother, Ms. Cooper, and Mrs. Spoon and the ideals that each possessed was very interesting.
But there were some things that I don't fully understand. For example, why were there different animals shown while the children were floating down the river. The owl eventually picked off the rabbit, but what about the frog, turtle, sheep, cat and the bird in the cage? I found it interesting that towards the end of the movie, when Powell and Ms. Cooper were singing the "lean on Jesus" song she was the only one to say Jesus, not the "preacher". Other times, Powell deliberately "leaned" his hands on things so that a hand would spell out the word love or hate. For example, HATE was spelled when he leaned on his prayer book when he was telling the Spoons about the mother's disappearance. Another time, he spelled LOVE when he was leaning on the railing at Ms. Cooper's house when he came to get the kids back.
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