Starring: Asa Butterfield, Zac Mattoon O'Brien, Vera Farmiga
Director: Mark Herman
This film is about the innocence of childhood, the curiosity that makes the world magical from the perspective of an inquisitive young mind. A film about childhood friendship. A film that showcases how children see the world with such simplicity, perhaps implying that it is actually grown men who are the juvenile.
Finally, a film that doesn't want to follow a traditional Hollywood ending. A film that leaves you devastated, not because of the events of the film itself, but because we've been conditioned to believe in happy endings. Every film needs a hero and a villain, where the villain is defeated and the hero triumphs, right?
Mark Herman answers that question with a resounding no.
Watch the film. You'll see why.
B+ acting.
B directing.
B- plot.
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