Movie

Boy

1969 · 98 min

A cold, detached plunge into a child's bleak world of scams and abuse, unsettling and quietly devastating.

Overview: A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, tense and dark. Measured and demanding.
About: Family, survival, crime, trauma
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
survival
crime
trauma
isolation
Places: road trip
small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild