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Apr. 17th, 2004 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3pipeproblemSo, I just saw I'm Not Scared at the festival...
It was lovely. Of course, I'm a sucker for films about little kids, especially those that take place in the 70s and whatnot. But besides that, it was gorgeous. The opening shot began with this dark hole in which one of the kids was imprisoned, then moved upwards to a crow and then finally the wheat fields where the other kids were riding bikes. The fields went on forever, and they were...indescribable. It was a completely different world. I loved the bicycle-riding sequences. There was this sort of crazy classical music playing, and the camera was handheld, and it really captured the excitement of little kids riding bikes.
The coming-of-age (or rather loss of innocence) was so well done. In the first scene, this ten-year-old boy slaps a little girl. It's shocking. It shouldn't be, but in the context of the world Michele (our hero) lives in, it is. And the kids all act like kids. I love that, even though it's often brutal. They bicker over who should get the wine and betray one another for the opportunity to drive a car.
And...the friendship that forms between Michele and Fillipo. Michele was so completely horrified at what the adults had done to this boy, yet he still tried to help him. Maybe because he had to do something, and, in some ways, it was the only thing he could do. He composes this story about the two of them being brothers, then the next day asks Fillipo if his father has the same name as Michele's. There's a gradual transition from there to the reality of the adult world, but in some ways the boys' friendship sets them apart, outside of all that.
Guh. It was good.
It was lovely. Of course, I'm a sucker for films about little kids, especially those that take place in the 70s and whatnot. But besides that, it was gorgeous. The opening shot began with this dark hole in which one of the kids was imprisoned, then moved upwards to a crow and then finally the wheat fields where the other kids were riding bikes. The fields went on forever, and they were...indescribable. It was a completely different world. I loved the bicycle-riding sequences. There was this sort of crazy classical music playing, and the camera was handheld, and it really captured the excitement of little kids riding bikes.
The coming-of-age (or rather loss of innocence) was so well done. In the first scene, this ten-year-old boy slaps a little girl. It's shocking. It shouldn't be, but in the context of the world Michele (our hero) lives in, it is. And the kids all act like kids. I love that, even though it's often brutal. They bicker over who should get the wine and betray one another for the opportunity to drive a car.
And...the friendship that forms between Michele and Fillipo. Michele was so completely horrified at what the adults had done to this boy, yet he still tried to help him. Maybe because he had to do something, and, in some ways, it was the only thing he could do. He composes this story about the two of them being brothers, then the next day asks Fillipo if his father has the same name as Michele's. There's a gradual transition from there to the reality of the adult world, but in some ways the boys' friendship sets them apart, outside of all that.
Guh. It was good.
