Review of Big City

More like a Kid City

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So this is a French movie about the American West as seen through the perspective of a child. Okay I dig it.

This is one of the many in-flight movies I watched this past week and the ratings might be slighly skewed to the favor of the film in question since I was really really bored.

If you've ever been to Wannado City or something of that nature you'd probably really connect to this movie. Essentially all the adults, except for the village idiot and drunk, are out fighting Indians or something and it's up to the kids to keep the city running. At first they have this giant free-for-all party until the village drunk manages to make them take up the jobs their parents once did and carry on the city functions.

So now you have 11 yr old prostitutes that are selling kisses for a dollar and stupid boys running around in KKK costumes stealing people's cats. It rather (blunty) pokes fun of the period of that time (and to an extent present day). Kids are raised to be just like their parents. They don't exactly understand why they act that way but that they should based on what they've seen their own parents due. So that's why you have little kiddies in KKK garb running around like it's Halloween. I think. I'm not even sure the KKK even existed at time the movie is set but eh.

The kids are cute and because they are so young you forget that the issues they face are issues many adults have to deal with and sometimes the kids just deal with those issues better and sometimes they don't do any better. And sometimes they have to question the decisions that adults have made. Anyway, it's a not so nice and cute film about society. There's more than meets the eye here.

8/10

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Thilian

Posted : 4 months, 2 weeks ago at Apr 3 20:56

It sounds like it's a companion work to Huck Finn.

Added by chibiyusa 4 months ago on 27 March 2008 12:40