Beautiful Boy (2010)
7/10
One of the greatest problems of America drowned in sulking emotionalism
1 May 2021
It is one of the greatest problems of America as shooting sprees occur every now and then. It is a great effort to deal with this problem, but it fails psychologically, perhaps mainly because the problem in itself is too difficult for anyone to handle. It must be wondered at, however, that the parents themselves act awkwardly in handling it, the boy left a video which they never can bear to watch, instead of confronting the situation and dealing with it efficiently they suppress it and their pains, and all they achieve in their handling of their son's action is a lot of tears and self-accusations, which tend to lead to the sum that they actually never knew their son. Whenever there is some intelligent argument and conversation that tends to attack the problem, it peters out, it is abandoned, and nothing comes out of it, like water poured in the sand. Another flaw in the direction is the constant movement of the camera, instead of properly filming scenes it keeps constantly fluttering about, like in tiresome Danish dogma films, actually preventing the actors from acting while letting the camera go acting instead, as if it had the right to act by itself and more than the actors. It is a terrible problem left unsolved and not handled with any psychological capability. Sorry, it's an effort to deal with America's perhaps greatest problem which only manages to show it.
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