Together, the plot and subplot added up to little in the
way of social, cultural, or political satire beyond the
glaringly, non-controversial
obvious («50s suburbia in the U.S. of A. was a hotbed of conformist, racist, and misogynist behavior) and the predictably clichéd (IQ - challenged criminals tend to suffer horribly for their sins, real and imagined to balance out the scales of cosmic justice).