Boy

It's incredible to see how Taika Waititi pinpointed and translated on the big screen the way in which kids perceive the hardship around them, a particular, almost blinding, sort of vision that we can't really understand as adults and don't really remember from our childhood. So, in a sort, Boy was a way to look back at one's own childhood. It made me think of how i could've been kind of oblivious about some hardships that my family faced in my infancy. Well, I guess I'll never really know about it, except through second-hand, biased recounts. If people still remember them, that is. Sadly, as the years pass, i tend to forget a lot about my childhood, only remembering "key frames". I wish the human brain was a perfect machine, incapable of letting go of the things you care and keeping in difficult to erase tracks the things you really don't want to remember, but they still find a way to creep into your life, without giving you much control. As for the movie itself, it was quirky, funny, but it hid many depressing but still fascinating aspects. It's far away from a feel-good movie, and I must say: thank god! Thank god the borderline-fantastical outlook we see doesn't necessarily sugar-coat the matter. Of course, feel-good movies aren't bad. I enjoy them myself. But i believe that, with certain sensitive matters, playing everything positively without a counterweight does more harm than relief. Taika Waititi was hilarious in his performance, even though it was of a character really, deeply flawed. And I always love when child actors show their talent and capability. Much, much more impressive than their adult peers, of course.