No matter which country shoots the World War II theme, it often cannot be completely flat, and will eventually add a little protagonist halo to one side, leaving a slot. The beauty of "Little Boy" is that it completely breaks away from the rut of mapping the battlefield and focuses on the depiction of characters on the edge. The little boy who was born later than his peers believed that his father would be able to go home after completing the checklist, and his firm belief gradually moved everyone in the town. In the process, not only the little boy himself, but also the people around him were treated kindly. Hashimoto, who has lived in the United States for more than 40 years, is hated because of the war.
There must have been thousands of little boys like Pepper at that time, otherwise the missiles that leveled Hiroshima would have been named after little boys, but obsessions can also turn into terrifying nightmares, and little samurai or fathers will become ash.
The first half of this film is relatively flat, but the force is very stable, and the preparations made have earned a lot of tears for the second half. There are a few scenes that are particularly fascinating. The overlapping pictures of the little boy on the bench on the trestle and the other side of the sea, Hashimoto in the hospital for heart attack, the officer coming home to inform the mother of the bad news, and the father falling to the ground on the battlefield. The editing of these three sets of pictures is really touching.
Last but not least, Jakob Salvati, the actor who plays pepper, is really good. It takes a boy like this to pick one out of so many young actors. Since it is shot from the perspective of a child, it is also excellent to give this story a happy ending.
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