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Irresponsible parents

posted 13 years ago by damien-16
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I haven't read the book, so maybe it's more comprehensible there, but in the film both Matti and Michela's parents and Alice's parents act totally irresponsibly. What parent will let 8 year old twins take off on their own, the girl being mentally unstable but expecting the boy to take care of her? And what parent would let his young daughter ski down a dangerous slope at zero visibility? Maybe parents that are always drunk or drugged or completely marginalized, but that was certainly not the case in the film. But it's exactly those two irresponsible behaviours that are the crux of the story. To me, this was very unbelievable and turned the film into a non-event.

[–] sam_vde 13 years ago

You should really take better notice. The girl needed to pee but she couldn't because she was late, which is why she had to go in the snow where she got separated from her group,leading to the accident.

Although the book differs slightly, in the movie the twins are borught to the party before the boy takes his sister to the parc and returns solo.

It's not that black and white.

[–] hand-eti 12 years ago

The peeing bit was unclear to me, but yes, in both cases the parents proved to maybe not be totally irresponsible but to put a very big burdon on their kids without taking any notice of their actual needs.

For Mattia is obvious that he will blame himself for the rest of his life even though in reality the parents are to blame. An 8 year old boy is not capable of guarding his mentally unstable twin sister and has a right to join activities with other kids without having the retarded sister in tow. And Alice's father was only concerned about the image of his family, so that's why his girl, who did not want to ski, was forced to go anyway and couldn't even go to the bathroom.

The parallel is clear, they didn't have to make it all that explicit by mixing up the scenes in the editing of the movie.