The brave and kind children are touching

Lottie 2022-04-19 09:02:01

The film tells the story of a child who lost his father in 9/11, leaving behind traumatic stress disorder. The director uses clever techniques to fully reveal the symptoms, such as avoidance (hiding the message machine), flashback, empathy (hating mom) and so on. After finding a key, I thought it was a clue left by my father, and insisted on looking for this clue. During the search process, I felt fear and pain in my heart, and I had to overcome my inner fear to ask different Blakes for clues about the key, and I had to repeat it again and again. Repeating the fact that his father was killed on 9/11, it doesn't really matter what the result is, what matters is that the child healed himself. amazing. Impressive.

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Extended Reading
  • Delmer 2022-03-30 09:01:04

    The little boy has the same talking eyes as Elijah Wood, but 911 really didn't touch it...

  • Willa 2021-12-14 08:01:15

    It is too difficult to use an unpleasant protagonist as an entry point to heal wounds. The touching fragments are one after another, but it is counterproductive to be combined so urgently and gorgeously and too perfectly. The film's failure lies in the tone: the lack of simplicity in the face of the Great Compassion.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close quotes

  • Linda Schell: I went into your room and I tried to think like you did. I wanted to understand.

    Oskar Schell: You were snooping on me?

    Linda Schell: I was searching for you.

  • Oskar Schell: I wish it were you.

    [pause]

    Oskar Schell: I wish it were you in the building instead of him.

    Linda Schell: [very softly] So do I.

    Oskar Schell: [pause] I didn't really mean that.

    Linda Schell: [sadly, in a whisper] Yes you did.