A child's perspective

Rating: Null/10 (1 March 2003)

I saw this movie when I was perhaps 10 or 11 years old. It was much too raw for someone of that age. Watching a child go through this utter stripping away of his identity was too much for a child to really handle. I sat on the floor of my bedroom in front of a floor-length mirror and stared at myself for an hour afterwards. It was clear to this young child that there are powers outside the realm of any control.
The separation from his parents, from his way of life, eating grubs for protein, nuclear fallout, there things were big, for anyone, let alone someone so small. I haven't seen it since, and I don't think I want to. Like Eraserhead, I'm not sure what I would think after so much elapsed time. I just remember the sense I had of nothing and everything mattering in this wide-world where things can change in an instant.