Little Boy

This was a tearjerker in every sense of the word. If you don’t want your lady thinking you are soft, then don’t watch this movie with her.

This story explores the relationship between a boy and his father. The boy was a loner and was always being bullied on account of his size. The only real friend he had was his father until his father had to go away to fight the Japanese in the Second World War.

The little boy went to extreme lengths all in a bid to get his father back after it was revealed that his father had been captured as a prisoner of war. All his actions also explore themes of religion, faith and belief of an innocent heart. The highlights of which were his staring out to the sea and willing his father home.

I still hear his little voice shouting, ‘I did it! My father’s coming home!’

Also his anguish on finding out that his father was not coming home after all.

The expectations in this movie keep changing: is the father dead? Is he alive?

This is an emotional roller coaster in every sense of the word.

I cried.