A heartbreaking child’s-eye view of the moment when it begins to dawn that the world is going to be unimaginably cruel to a nonconformist. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There is barely any fantasy — any true fantasy — in nine-year-old Junior’s world. He may not realize this, but we see it… like when his game of playing with toy soldiers is accompanied by real gunfire outside in his Caracas housing project. Like how his dream of being a pop singer with “good hair,” his kinky curls blow-dried into sleek straightness, horrifies his mother to the point where her only reaction to the poor kid is contempt and disdain. Granted, Mom (Samantha Castillo) is wildly overstressed, raising two young children on her own and desperately looking for work, but it’s easy to see...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There is barely any fantasy — any true fantasy — in nine-year-old Junior’s world. He may not realize this, but we see it… like when his game of playing with toy soldiers is accompanied by real gunfire outside in his Caracas housing project. Like how his dream of being a pop singer with “good hair,” his kinky curls blow-dried into sleek straightness, horrifies his mother to the point where her only reaction to the poor kid is contempt and disdain. Granted, Mom (Samantha Castillo) is wildly overstressed, raising two young children on her own and desperately looking for work, but it’s easy to see...
- 1/30/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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