What a bad movie! I can't say anything else about this film but it was painfully slow with almost zero story line and/or climax.
I had to leave the room on several occasions it was so bad!
Thursday, April 3, 2008
SAVE YOURSELF... TIME!
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I read this a while ago and meant to comment on it. Saw the movie again this weekend with family in Florida and was reminded.
I am so sad you didn't like this movie! It won so many independent film festival awards and won my heart the first time I saw it in the theater.
Though the movie is setup to make you wonder if Joshua is some sort of Antichrist, the truth is from start to finish, we never see Joshua ever do one thing wrong -- which might have given you the miconception that it is plotless or without climax. But instead of being the tale of the supernatural it allows us to assume it's going to be, what we come to find is that it's a movie about child abuse, first mental and in the end physical. In every frame, the parents are at such a distance from Joshua. We see a bond they feel for their new child that they do not feel for Joshua as they continue to keep themselves at a distance with him throughout the movie. Most musical child prodigies hide themselves and their true feelings in their music. Joshua obviously had grown up too quickly and his own corruption of the "Twinkle, Twinkle" child nursery rhyme is both metaphoric for the corruption of his childhood and also a way for him to express what's happening inside of him.
Kids needs love, affection and attention. No matter how adult they may seem.
Joshua's parents weren't providing.
The script is pretty brilliant too. The uncle says at one point outside the mental institution, "I'm trying to play spot the looney, but it's hard to tell who is."
That's the point of the movie. To make you question why you ever thought Joshua was the evil one in the first place.
Pretty brill! Totally deep movie.
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