The Florida Project

I love how, whenever something truly cruel happens, the film chooses to frame it from a child’s perspective. The camera stays behind the kid’s head, locking us into their point of view, while the violence or devastation in front of them remains blurred and out of focus. It feels like an act of protection. Sean Baker shields the children from fully confronting the reality of the moment, but it also reflects how these experiences will live on in their minds. The trauma is real, yet filtered, fragmented, and softened by memory. What we see isn’t just what happens, but how a child remembers what happens.