i'm in two minds about boy missing part of me looked part of it and the other half of it i
found to be a little disappointing and a bit of a cop out now i can't explain why that is without
giving spoilers but i will just say that something was revealed at one point and it made it seem a
little less dramatic and a little less intense i can see why they did it because it's all about
how one action well my interpretation is that it's all about how one action can lead to something
quite catastrophic and i can that's interesting but i feel like it just felt like a cop-out i
might explain that towards the end with a spoiler warning but i'll just say it was all right but
it's not the direction i personally would have wanted so this film was released in 2016 spanish
language film directed by martin i'm going to try that one again mar targarona uh written by oriole
paolo and lara sendem i should point out i have no spanish in my vocabulary blatantly obviously um
but i you know i've never had a problem with subtitles in fact i quite enjoy subtitles um
this is basically about a boy i'm not going to read i was considering reading the description
from imdb but i think it gives away too much at least too much of the bits that i enjoyed this
young boy is found wandering alone on a road and his face is bloody and cut and to begin with he
won't say what happened and there's a little bit of suspense around him that his mother
happens to be an attorney and his mother tries to coax the story out of him and what's particularly
interesting and i don't know why they made this decision or if they just found the actor
and worked with it um but he's actually a deaf character he talks with sign language
which um you know i think was a nice addition to the narrative if they decided on it but i
also think it's kind of nice if they just found an actor who was good at the role and he just
happened to be deaf and they incorporated into the character i'm not sure which way it happened
but either way it doesn't hinder the story if you don't speak uh sign language i don't know
any sign language um and it definitely given a more emotional aspect i have to say that
victor the young boy who's played by mark dominic is brilliant fantastic performance
he plays the scared young young vulnerable little boy really well um and i found his
performance to be really great as the narrative progresses we learn things about what happened
and to begin with what happened seemed quite intense but then it seemed not as dramatic as
it could have been not as interesting and as i said a bit of a cop-out for the narrative
because the narrative became less interesting the more we found out now maybe that's just me
maybe that's just what i look for in a narrative you may say otherwise as i said there is a reason
why it's told that way because it shows that one thing led to another that led to something
a side story that begins to get quite intense and i really really i'm probably not making a lot of
sense because i can't say it without spoiling it but basically the main narrative becomes less
dramatic and less interesting but it does have a knock-on effect that's quite powerful and quite
moving so it's not all bad it's very atmospheric i think the acting is great the narrative up until
the point where i think it shifted direction was very enjoyable and that's probably about halfway
through so it's a good chunk of time where i was really emotionally invested in this but then it
changed direction the tone shifted it felt like a completely different film with a different target
audience and i stopped enjoying it as much i can still appreciate you know how tense it was the use
of sound effects was brilliant use of shadowing fantastic um camera work with some particularly
bloody scenes was great but i will say if you have ever owned a bull terrier or like dogs of any kind
it can be quite difficult to watch at times not not for the most part it's just a small portion of
it but i wish they'd kept those bits out and you may be thinking well what's that got to do with
boy missing well my point exactly it's a completely different feel once it gets to a
certain point and i just don't appreciate that kind of mixing of the sub genres
but that's just me in general it's not a bad film each half of the film is well produced
well directed well acted the tones are just very different would i recommend it sure
if it's your kind of thing if you like thrillers give it a go and let me know what you think it's
not the best i feel let down by the second half but for the most part i'm glad i've seen it