The movie is basically about growing up under tough circumstance, which
is not without its emotional scars and eventually leads up to only more
tragedy. It makes the movie sound like such a downer but the movie
actually has a sort of light and pleasant atmosphere to it, that is
hard to describe or compare to anything else but bottom-line is that it
works out well and makes the movie a still mostly pleasant one.
Not that the movie is always easy to watch though. It's still being a
bit of a difficult movie to follow at times but it never goes overboard
with anything. The movie just takes a too light and simplistic approach
for that, which is all something positive in this case.
I didn't really expected this but it really is a movie that is all
about its young characters. All of the adults are truly being secondary
characters in this and I would say that Eamonn Owens is on the screen
for about 95% of the time, if not an 100% but just don't pin me on
that. And I quite like movies that are entirely being told from the
viewpoint of a young kid. I don't know, it's always easy to somewhat
identify with I guess, since everybody used to be a young kid at one
point.
You also could say that it's a movie about the loss of innocence. Due
to circumstance the young characters in this movie have to mature very
fast, while they still have the needs and minds of a young child in
them. This leads to some pretty surprising developments at times.
Thing that this movie mostly has going for it is its originality. It's
being original with its story but even more so with its approach. It
also was the right approach to take in my opinion, since this movie
would had been an incredible dry and heavy one had it been done as a
completely serious drama.
Definitely watchable but I should still say that this movie most
definitely won't be everybody's cup of tea.
7/10
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