Director Michael Cuesta used direct, real, and quite humorous shots and scripts to portray the growth and changes experienced by three 12-year-olds after an accident. I think this piece is quite black, and there is an indescribable sadness and touch. Mainstream movies like to beautify children too much. If anything goes wrong, it is always the fault of adults. The children are a blank sheet of paper, it seems that growth is just a switch, not a painful transformation.
Society has given us too many established assumptions and guesses: right and wrong are very black and white, and friends and enemies are very clear. But in fact there are too many things that are complicated, vague, and reasonable. In some cases, in the end, there is no way to blame.
Michael Cuesta also directed a controversial film called LIE before this. I really like Michael Cuesta's perspective, and I am going to look for it.
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