First off, why are the acting skills of foreign children so expressive? ? After all, it's a movie made four years ago, and it's not the first time for these two young actors to watch their works. I really think they have great acting talents.
This movie is actually not well done in general, because there are a lot of useless scenes in the movie, the ones that are deleted and don’t affect the plot very much, the people who watch it are a little tired, and even I wonder if this is a plan after all Movies that kill neighbors, but fortunately, these transitions to useful plots are quite natural. The only thing that surprised me was that I always thought Henry was the only male lead, so I thought it would end with him and his mother teaming up to kill the male neighbor next door. I didn't expect Henry to die in the middle of it... So I found out later. Only later did I realize that Henry's mother was also an important figure, and I felt that her presence was very weak, like a supporting role.
I feel that the director may not be very good at portraying characters. For example, I thought my mother seemed to be a supporting role earlier, and the portrayal of the male neighbor next door was also very vague. Even at the end, I didn’t know what he did to the stepdaughter, whether it was beating or incest, even because there was very little description. Every time I see his normal face, I can't resonate. Also, the ending feels a bit perfunctory. Regarding the principal suddenly found out that he was alone, he overturned the police chief, and even the mother dispatched the police car without being useful. It only makes me feel that it was so easy to overthrow the police chief. The use of lynching is indeed a bit unreasonable.
It feels like the movie has a hodgepodge of flavors. First, it carefully describes a smart Henry and his life, and then the plot suddenly stops, and it becomes Henry's family saving the little girl next door.
But is there really someone as smart as Henry in this world? I feel that he is an all-rounder. At the age of 11, he is not only involved in economics but also in medicine. He can even see his talents in physics and philosophical thinking, ??
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