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Fragile  [message #71985] Mon, 17 October 2016 06:46 Go to next message
timmy

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Short films like these also need to be made with unprepossessing kids.


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A stark inevitability  [message #71987 is a reply to message #71985] Mon, 17 October 2016 06:58 Go to previous message
timmy

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I have said this elsewhere:

There is, I suppose, a stark inevitability about this short film. It intends to portray imbecilic brutality and it achieves that.

The idiot father acts as if he would be violent if the lad missed his homework, got a B grade instead of an A, cheeked his mother and so forth. It fails to show the man's violence as a direct result only of his son's coming home with a doll. We needed, instead, to see him as a decent man who snapped when he saw the doll. And he is not shown that way.

The boy is also too cute, pleasant as he is to behold. These films need to be made about the unprepossessing children too. Ugly kids are T just like cute kids are T.


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