Comments on: Little Children http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/10/14/little-children/ Tatvam Productions tells stories that reach for the truth, share the reality and communicate the inner meaning. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:50:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ovdioo http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/10/14/little-children/comment-page-1/#comment-1931 ovdioo Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:12:53 +0000 http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/10/14/little-children/#comment-1931 This film to me was all about reflecting what men and women feel when they turn to certain age and don't want to grow up.. so they settle into a life in a society that is so scrict and so established that when one does not fill the mold--as Ronnie, the sex offender--he is loathed and despised. Sarah is a character that changed herself in order to fit in.. she still longs for that time of youth and for that time where she could've chosen something instead than a playground and a daughter to whom she does not connect. Brad is as well aspiring to relieve his past when taking on football and starting an illicit affair.. soon, we learn how stupid they're struggle has been... how hard it is to come and face the fact that they aren't little children anymore... sitting around the playground, holding hands, and aspiring that one day they can turn into astronauts. This film to me was all about reflecting what men and women feel when they turn to certain age and don’t want to grow up.. so they settle into a life in a society that is so scrict and so established that when one does not fill the mold–as Ronnie, the sex offender–he is loathed and despised. Sarah is a character that changed herself in order to fit in.. she still longs for that time of youth and for that time where she could’ve chosen something instead than a playground and a daughter to whom she does not connect. Brad is as well aspiring to relieve his past when taking on football and starting an illicit affair.. soon, we learn how stupid they’re struggle has been… how hard it is to come and face the fact that they aren’t little children anymore… sitting around the playground, holding hands, and aspiring that one day they can turn into astronauts.

]]> By: Shripriya http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/10/14/little-children/comment-page-1/#comment-1047 Shripriya Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:18:13 +0000 http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/10/14/little-children/#comment-1047 Skasster - thanks for visiting my blog and thanks for sharing your perspectives. I felt the narration kept us at arms length. We (or at least I) was viewing these characters rather dispassionately rather than getting tangled up in their emotions and rooting for them. As I mentioned in the post - that was my biggest issue "You don’t get involved enough to empathize." But that's the thing with creative endeavors - some love it and some struggle to love it :) I'll be reading your blog and I hope you'll visit again and engage in more conversation. Skasster – thanks for visiting my blog and thanks for sharing your perspectives. I felt the narration kept us at arms length. We (or at least I) was viewing these characters rather dispassionately rather than getting tangled up in their emotions and rooting for them. As I mentioned in the post – that was my biggest issue “You don’t get involved enough to empathize.”

But that’s the thing with creative endeavors – some love it and some struggle to love it :)

I’ll be reading your blog and I hope you’ll visit again and engage in more conversation.

]]> By: Skasster http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/10/14/little-children/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Skasster Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:29:40 +0000 http://tatvam.com/blog/2006/10/14/little-children/#comment-819 I disagree with your statement that this film is "hard to love". On the contrary I think it was one of the best films released last year and one I truly loved - along with Children of Men and The Lives of Others. This film I think is really about the strength of maternal love - how it redeems the pederast who has become an outcast and the young woman who has been lost for so long and finds some truly strong tether in life in the child she's been ignoring. The final few minutes - where Brad gets lost in his adolescent yearning of skateboarding and where Sarah realises what is more important to her nailed what i think was the writer, Tom Perrotta's idea - that in this world the women seem more ready to move on in life while the men just want to escape. Todd Field (In the Bedroom was magnificent as well) is a superb filmmaker and along with the other Todd - Todd Haynes - probably two of the best cinematic storytellers in America right now. If you found it hard to empathize it was probably the clinical narration and dissection of the characters motivations that were given in parts throughout the film. That didn't quite keep me from liking it, however! I disagree with your statement that this film is “hard to love”. On the contrary I think it was one of the best films released last year and one I truly loved – along with Children of Men and The Lives of Others. This film I think is really about the strength of maternal love – how it redeems the pederast who has become an outcast and the young woman who has been lost for so long and finds some truly strong tether in life in the child she’s been ignoring. The final few minutes – where Brad gets lost in his adolescent yearning of skateboarding and where Sarah realises what is more important to her nailed what i think was the writer, Tom Perrotta’s idea – that in this world the women seem more ready to move on in life while the men just want to escape. Todd Field (In the Bedroom was magnificent as well) is a superb filmmaker and along with the other Todd – Todd Haynes – probably two of the best cinematic storytellers in America right now. If you found it hard to empathize it was probably the clinical narration and dissection of the characters motivations that were given in parts throughout the film. That didn’t quite keep me from liking it, however!

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