Kim Anh

Outstanding, ey? I am surprised it has such a rating. Guess audiences didn’t get it. Can’t win ‘em all. Came across this by accident so had no expectations, a little like a sociopathic itinerant happening upon a rich vein of therapeutic material useful to the pursuit of closure. The kids were not of the age where they could make an informed choice in regards to which path might be best for their personal development, so a grown-up took responsibility, replacing the electronic device with a bullet to each head - both approaches are examples of sloppy stunting of childhood potential - whereas the fantastically personified Tubs found his agency awakened by revisiting the stage of his formation. Making that stage an abattoir for the other representative of the brutal forces that formed him, brought a degree of balance or equilibrium to his self, which is nice. The staff at these institutions are responsible, but fellow kids actually cause the most pain, daily, relentlessly in these meat grinders. Darkness fell after a day traveling through a vastness that reduces the tamed person and emboldens the feral. Something to bear in mind, next time you choose to head out for a picnic, ey? Luafutu did a great bit of work here - conveying subtle character development with just his spectacular face and a handful of lines. We have little understanding of the relationship between the two, so we have to assume that the man with a plan was too distracted by the windfall to have noticed that his security was slipping away. A regular film of this genre would have made him blatantly narcissistic, maybe, to cover this lack of awareness - but it’s good to see a film that trusts the audience and credits that audience with the sense to fill in the blanks. The movie would have been an effective short, too, but this kept me wrapped throughout with effective pacing and generally classy performances and crafty scenes, so why make it a short, ey?