During my second-go at this game, I remembered Švankmajer's short film Dimensions of dialogue. Not because they share anything in particular but because of their topics on "power over".
As I was thinking about the short film, Kids could've been a short film instead. But the addition of interaction may add the player in the plot as we follow along the crowd, as it is scripted (or so we think), we follow as well.

Just thought of sharing for the sake of conversation. Would enjoy to read others' thoughts.