psychetool said:
I hated that the heart about all things are deceitful movie - fucking DISGUSTING scenes! Even if it's fake, i'm NOT about watching some kid get buttraped. Fucking not cool! That among the MYRIAD of other fucking TERRIBLE shit that happens to him. UGH! I turned that shit off.
This movie, while nothing like this one, was much like Children of Men.. not by plot, story, acting ability, style, etc..
but in the fact that from the beginning it was just negativity and seeing a horrid picture painted, but with nothing to compare and contrast that negativity to.
This is problematic, b/c both movies could have been great films and turned out to be absolute shit. When you see people in films like this and cannot make an emotional connection.. can't see where life is or was good.. and how that's taken away.. or how one might find joy in the midst of all the fucked up shit going wrong.. i have a hard time relating, empathizing, or feeling anything. I think i'm just looking at tragedy piled on top of tragedy, and it's numbing. You don't feel anything. You watch a world in children of men, and you don't give a shit the girl is pregnant and needs to be saved.. b/c you see a world not worth saving.
Just as in the Heart is Decietful, you see this boy go through all this awfullness, but you never see him smile, play, make a constructive connection to anyone, you see nothing of value to feel bad for him to miss. Sure, that life would be awful.. and things happen like this to kids unfortunately.. and it's fucking horrific, but the movie/story doesn't make you feel that. It makes you feel nothing, at most .. morbid curiosity to keep watching to see who and what is going to hurt him next.