Thanks for the link. The video is really close to the story, much closer than I expected. The boy is really cute. I find it weird though that there is this association with maturity and being cold and distant. The sex scene in the middle just seemed gratuitous and unnecessary. I think with the internal dialogue in the story, you get a better idea of what the father is thinking. To me what disturbs me about the book and the film is how "perfect" the family is. I guess that's true for a lot of films, but it really stood out for this one. Maybe because the boy is not responding as expected to the perfection of it. The story doesn't change my initial perception though that basically the dad is very self-conscious and self-aware, so the son is basically the same way. I see lots of kids around here and after a certain age, most of them are just not very close with their parents at all. And that age is probably 7 or 8, if not younger. Though the parents are not very affectionate either, which is different from this film. The thing the kid said about "I should have a right not to consent to hugging" is sort of typical of today's language, I've seen a lot of stuff online about that sort of thing. It's very odd though that there's a lot of people who are so reactive about touch. I wouldn't think of a hug as something dangerous to be avoided, to be obsessed with consent or not. |