The Weight of Elephants

I get it was trying to show this feeling of isolation or childhood, but this didn't do it. It's just a movie showing an ordinary boring life of your average kid, but entertainment isn't about the ordinary or the average. It's meant to have drama, romance, action, suspense, it's meant to be an escape from the boredom of life. It got to 4 because of the few emotional moments that did hit home with me. Also even tho most of the actors were kids it was really good acting, usually with kids there's a high chance of the acting being deadpan but her everyone did well. There were just to many boring and mundane moments for me to give it a higher score. And as my mother pointed out it has a very NZ feeling about it.

Final Verdict: It's a VERY subtle drama about the problems of being a child in New Zealand. With some strong emotional scenes and good acting but there were too many unnecessary scenes to make it more interesting.