In the last moments of the movie when the boy fell down from the tree(at least 6m height), I was 100% sure that he is dead or at least his bones are broken, but after that he stand up and just walk away! What do you think?
-sorry for my English-
I think it's a tough kid
shareAgreed. Tough kid. He was just unconcious. Very good little film. :)
shareShows the typical resilience of foster children. Brilliant scene and film.
shareI'm sorry, but there is a big gap between being resilient and being able to break the laws of physics and/or biology.
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We've only seen the initial part of the fall. He might have hung and bounce by lower branches.
shareHe also might have been caught mid-fall by an invisible alien and gently laid down on the ground. The fact that everything we see suggests that he should be at the very least badly injured yet he walks away unharmed is bad filmmaking/storytelling.
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huh and what are these laws? if you know anything about falls is that they often make little sense. You can sprain an ankle by walking or fall from a high roof and be fine or have a single break. Oh my...
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I've never heard of someone falling from a high roof and being fine (I guess my life experience as it pertains to falling IS limited). I also have never heard of someone refer to spraining an ankle while walking as a form of falling. Anyways, I saw this movie some time ago and whatever issue I had with the movie has long since passed. CHEERS!!!
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Shows the typical resilience of foster children.
Little film? It's a BIG film! Much better than a lot HUGE american films.
shareI'm not commenting on your post, just your postscript. Don't apologize for your English. It is excellent. Not perfect, but pretty damn good. I work with many people in an office environment (here in the USA, by the way) who do not express themselves as fluently as you do.
shareThanks for your compliment !
not what you'd expect, but plausible - you can never know in a dardenne brothers film
shareThe power of love, perhaps. Samantha is waiting for him and we leave the kid peddling furiously to get back to her. While the scene can be taken at face value, it can also be seen as representative of the effect of Samantha's unconditional love and support on the kid.
A wonderful film. The Dardenne brothers can do no wrong.
My thought about him recovering from the fall out of the tree and telling the son and his father not to call for an ambulance was that he felt he sort of deserved what happened and it was a kind of punishment for him. The boy hadn't forgiven him for what he did so he accepted the hurt philosophically and then got on with his life. He was a tough, resilient kid because he'd had to be.
Absolutely loved the film and the growing bond between Samantha and Cyril was wonderfully portrayed. They both realised that they needed each other.
I was captured by a little scene in the beginning . . . in the Medical Office . . . He grabbed her and held on so tight that it hurt . . . she said that he could hold her just not so tightly ( Phrasing is loosely paraphrased )
sharehe felt he sort of deserved what happened and it was a kind of punishment for him.
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I think that scene was too fantastical to not be thought of as pure allegorical. When he falls and gets up again it represents him going from his old life to the new one. He is putting the past behind him and is starting over. It shows how people can change if they are given a second chance.
At least that's my opinion.
that was well thought out and explained.thank you.
sharemind over matter...he had only 1 thing on his mind and it wuz not his dad or ps3 or beatin up dat kid a 2nd time and apparently not dyin or gettin hurt
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I agree with avisskipper... I see it as some sort of rebirth, leaving his old ways behind to be with Samantha.
Prepare to evacuate soul.
Was a bit crazy that he just got up and walked away, but what the hell, I think he had survived worse.
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In some sense, the last sequence sort of summarizes parts of the movie. The kid trying to run away from issues he is faced with and almost ending up in a much more deeper hole, but somehow miraculously escaping from the consequences.
shareThe Dardenne brothers said somewhere that they intended the film to be structured like a 'fairytale' and that Samantha was the fairy.
I love the part where Cyril is lying unconscious/ dead and the father of the other boy is about to throw the stone away and Cyril's phone rings- we know its Samantha because only she ever calls him and the phone ringing (with the magical ringtone) is symbolic of Cyril's revival by his guardian fairy.
Brilliant! thank you.
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