Movie Overview - Boy

The film boy, directed by Taika Waititi, is a very enkindle film made in New Zealand. It follows the story of the principal(prenominal)(prenominal) character, son, an 11 year ove displeasure boy who finally gets a chance to know his get under ones skin, who has re morose to scrape up a bag of bills he buried eld ago. There were some(prenominal) all-important(a) events in this film, but the main one was when son gets heights on marijuana, and realizes that Alamein, his military chaplain was neer thither for him or his mother. through and through this event, male childs sight of his father changes in a negative manner, and son in addition begins to respect Rocky, his brother and finds obligation and maturity within himself. The director, Waititi, uses several visual and oral techniques, such as communion, flashbacks, non-diegetic sound and auspicate of view pangs to show male childs change in attitude towards his father.\nWhen Boy gets utmost on marijuana and si ts on the noseband, he sees flashbacks of when his mother was pregnant, and when she died. From these flashbacks, he realized his father was never there, he wasnt there when his mother was pregnant or when she died. It was at this point that Boy realized the rectitude about(predicate) his father (Alamein) and that he had created specious images of Alamein all these years. This is captured perfectly by the director, Waititi, who uses the point of view shot effectively to capture Boy falling backwards from the bridge through Boys eyes, and showed us how he felt up at that moment. It showed us that Boys world turned upside down, literally, as he found out the truth about Alamein. This realization of his fathers reality leads to an magnification of anger. Waititis use of dialogue shows this well as Boy says Im nobody like you! in rage to Alamein. This shows he has finally inclined in to the fact that his father isnt what he thought, and in reality, Alamein is not someone to ant icipate up to. This event had both(prenominal) positive and negative effect on Boy. Positive because Boys finally proverb the real person his fa...