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I'm Not Scared
Michelle and his friends find an abandoned house. The next day, Michelle goes to the house by himself and discovers a dried out well and inside, some weird creature. We soon realize it's a ten year old boy, who's been kidnapped and is held hostage in the well. They become friends, but Michelle soon realizes that his parents are the ones responsible for this kids kidnapping.
It's a great children's film, a good thriller, and a bad drama. It's trying to be all these genres, but it fails on the drama level. Okay, the director gives us the child's perspective, that's why the film is too naïve, too simple. I admire that the he decided not to change perspectives in the middle of the film, when it becomes more serious, more adult material. But the adults stay the same as before - as only children's eyes see them. They're villains, even one's parents.
In the middle, you start wondering if this is yet another children's adventure-mystery films, when there are so many (if not on film, then certainly in novels). But it's much more (you realize it too late, unfortunately). It's a film about friendship, youth, child's play being interweaved with the greedy and deteriorated adult world, which unfortunately leaves a sore spot. If for nothing else, the cinematography is superb, the young and talented Giuseppe Cristiano gives his best, the story is simple and quite loveable, the screenplay is sharp and contains witty dialogues and the ending will just simply break your heart. It actually hurts, you feel the pain, or at least I did.
***1/2 (out of 5)
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blazz13 23 November 2003
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