A movie about a boy

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2008)

I think it has been somewhere nearly 1½ years since a movie had such an impact on me. (The last one was Badlands by Terrence Malick) I couldn't sleep the night after it. Had feverish dreams from which I would wake up and talk to myself, acting the movie to people around me, who were right there in front of me. It was happening to me. And it did.
I thought about it the next day all the time. It was like the state when something happens that breaks all the structure in your life. I felt sad. Confused. Scared. Thought about dying. Laughed. And the story really isn't that amazing. The movie was shot beautifully. There where maybe like 4 times during the movie that I thought it could end now and I would be fine with it. Sean Penn is a great director. But still, that wasn't the charm. I don't know what was. And it wasn't confusing like the first time you saw The Fountain, Memento or The Matrix. Nothing like that. It just drained me.
Many people seem to be stuck on analyzing why Chris (played poetically by Emile Hirsch) did why he did what he did. But nobody tries to see HOW the things he did were PORTRAYED. It is a movie after all.
I don't think anyone got this movie. But I hope they will. And then they can explain it to me.