Asked more questions than it answered?

First off, I enjoyed this documentary immensely.

That said, I thought it had some huge contextual gaps in it and didn't make the methods of the project clear enough - or even what its basic premise was. I wanted to know far more about what the children did during the day rather than odd calendar highlights of the flare-ups that will inevitably occur.

Secondly, although some eight or more boys left, we seemed to follow only four in detail throughout - indeed for some their appearance was limited to the odd comic comment that only reflected the most stereotypical reactions to how they might be coping, e.g. to show the overweight child requesting candy and sodas seemed a little cruel to me - and only included to prompt laughs in the cinema...

I wanted to see more of what they did, more of what they thought about the whole deal. Perhaps sometimes in a continuous shot of an off-screen interviewer - rather than multiple cuts between single sentences that left me wondering whether it was truly representative of their answers. Less technique sometimes equals more content, no?

I guess the directors had a huge amount of footage which needed to be condensed to a film length - a tough task. But given the fact that they only ever covered half the time they had intended to, one would have thought that left them with more space to illustrate the goings on of that 1st year more catefully.

The final cut felt, to me, like patchy coverage of a tremendously interesting story - one that might warrant a mini series rather than a 100-odd minute film.