Remember the name of the director Alma Hall is that when he was studying at FAMU in 2016, he saw a film called Normal Autistic Film. It was a very powerful film. The film went to the Karlovy vary film festival and Berlin, but it didn't win an award. Competing with this film for the grand prize is Almahal's True Love.
It didn't surprise me that "Baby Boy" has a much better reputation than its box office. This kind of pain writing has never been the darling of mainstream commercial theaters, and this film's 94% praise on Rotten Tomato is by no means overrated. One of the basic elements of a good story is sincerity. On this basis, a feature film achieves a time and space shuttle that cannot be accomplished by a documentary.
In the interaction between father and son, the author did not let go of any sensitive nerves. The son expects his father's unreserved support, but it always fails. The actor son pays the father who has a criminal record and does not work seriously. After the bottom line is touched, the son bargains and asks the "employee" to have proper respect for the "boss". employees” for more violent retaliation.
At the end, the father takes his son to see the marijuana he grows near the highway and takes his son to smoke marijuana. The camera shows the true love between father and son at this time. This fatherly love is poisonous, yet very real. Similarities can be found in many unfortunate family relationships in the world.
Script writer and actor Shia LaBeouf decided to play her own father, and from my point of view, I chose to understand my father, which is a key step in reconciling with the cruel adult world.
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