select parents

Giles 2022-03-26 09:01:12

It's often said that parents can't choose, but the little boy in this film shows how to choose the parents he wants for once.

Joshua is a typical high IQ and high emotional intelligence. Her clothes and hairstyles are meticulous, and even her pajamas are serious styles. She does not worry about studying housework at all, and she is sensible and considerate and does not cause trouble at all. type of child. As his mother said, do you think he looks like a 10-year-old. But the parents in the movie are not the parents Joshua wanted. A mentally fragile mother who was prone to breakdowns, a father who had a successful career but had no taste, and a grandmother who was religiously zealous, not to mention that their attention was almost completely diverted when they had a younger sister. In the movie, I always wondered how parents like them could give birth to a child like Joshua. Joshua said he didn't need them to love him, but they were simply not worthy of the demands of Joshua's world.

So, Joshua, set out to drive her mother crazy, kill her grandma, frame and destroy her father in her own way. He chose the "parents" he wanted - uncles. Currently the only person who can understand him and play with him. But at the end of the film, the uncle's ending singing left a suspense, how long can he survive in Joshua's world?

Compared with the same type of "Orphan Resentment", Joshua is less evil. He is more like a god who lives with higher standards and requirements than everyone else. He pursues the perfection and order he wants, and he controls him. life and the running of the world. In the plot, I feel that Joshua's tricks are still weaker. There is no reversal and suspense like the ending of "The Orphan's Resentment". The storyline is a bit too bland. Only in the end, the father collapses in public in the park is a little interesting. . In the film, after watching Joshua's video, the father went to the museum to find him with a sudden realization. The change of the plot was a bit too sudden and abrupt. When parents see the eldest son quietly filming the younger daughter sleeping at night, shouldn't they talk to their son first? Besides, the eldest child is curious about the new sister, so it is not a particularly abrupt thing to shoot a video. Joshua vomits, faints, walks the dog, donates all the toys in other movies. These feelings don't help the character building, but they distract the character, making it feel like he's just a jealous kid, and for the whole movie. The driving feeling of the movie's plot is dispensable.

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Joshua quotes

  • Homeless Man: Can you help me out, little man? Just something. Anything. I'm no chooser here.

    Joshua Cairn: I'll give you five dollars if you let me throw a rock at you.

  • Brad Cairn: I think you're sick, Josh.

    [experimental sniff]

    Joshua Cairn: I don't feel sick.

    Joshua Cairn: Not at all.