The Barbarian director is back with an unexpected meditation on powering through tragedy... that's also bonkers and terrifying

The Polygon report added that though Weapons was not a direct metaphor for grief, its chaotic and mysterious tone emerged as a byproduct of emotional upheaval. He said he was exhausted of grief-as-metaphor horror movies, but the energy of the grief is in the film.

The marketing for Weapons is going heavy on the mysterious event that happens at 2:17 AM to set the film in motion. Does that time have a deeper meaning?