It's about the difference between the view in and the view out of life

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2006)

Humans might have developed the ability to speak, but our language is so poor when it comes to speak from the depths of our beings. It's being said that a look can speak a thousand words. Art can be a much more effective communication tool than language. Sometimes you can read the artists eyes to understand his vision. That's the case here. The story of a poor kid growing up on the downside of advantage who takes the road to perdition not because he chooses wrong but because any road out of there would have been equally doomed to fail morally, achieves epic proportions when it transcends the genre to become a dissection of modern human society, a story about growing up, a gangster tale, a love story and an initiation trip on the downward spiral of memory lane direction purgatory.
The story follows Noodle's reflections, from childhood to old age, revealing piece by piece what can be viewed as a failed life, or an immoral one, but really is a tale of broken dreams and promises to self and others, success and downside of it, fate, love and friendship, but most of all it shows the great difference between the view in and the view out of life.