Question on final scene (spoiler)
What bullet hit the kid? Was it the one where they're attempting to blow out the window and hits the door? I was thinking perhaps that bullet bounced off the door?
shareI can understand your confusion.
The film told the story of two very unlikely rural American children from poorer communities. They enjoyed wandering in the vast countryside, and stealing cop cars.... but could not work out how to operate a hand gun, make it fire for almost the length of this film, or finally when at last accidentally making one function, fire it at a 2ft x 2ft window....
What might have made all this plausible was if the children had escaped an Armish community where they had had no previous exposure to such things as guns, television, complex machinery. This might have been a more interesting film if they had gone the Armish route... But anyway.
When he fired the pistol it ricocheted off the frame of the door and hit him in the gut.
I won't get into the chances of a bullet being fired at 45 degrees to a flattish surface and then bouncing back the way it came... (Oh, yes I am). This film prioritised things happening, not that they were based on any actual possibility in REALITY OF HAPPENING.
Perhaps if the director had been less lazy in his construction of the scene he might have shown the boy closing his eyes hard in anticipation of the shot, and then the gun wavering and moving significantly left of his target causing the miss. Explaining the seemingly improbable event of missing a 2ft square window from 2ft away...
But this wasn't that kind of film.
I assumed the bullet came through the car during the shootout (windows bulletproof but not the body panels), though it's possible the bullet ricocheted off the window.
And I'm not sure the average 10 year old knows that most guns have a safety.