Tuesday, June 12, 2012

新しい友達-New Boy #1 (Kaori Shimamoto)

I watched a film from Ireland titled, New Boy (2007), directed by Steph Green.
This film was about a nine years old boy from Africa coming to a new school. There he is treated badly by some boys but soon gets along with them by laughing at a common event.
It was a very heart warming film besides the fact that the boy has gone through a tragic event. With the story telling the boy struggling in class, the film shows another event, in which shows the boys father being taken away by soldiers. After such a tragjic event, joining a class is something that makes you nervous and scared. He faces a new culture with new people. You always worry about getting along with others and in this film the boy starts off with almost getting bullied by two kids. But at the end the three boys get along by making fun of the teacher, which created something common between eachother. Something so small of an event can really make two different people become really close. It showed how kids become to understand eachother and solve their own problem.

1 comment:

  1. Kaori,

    Sure, this is the main story, but what about the “other” story - which answers the question - why is he a new boy in the first place?
    Could you expand your review to include that?
    Ms. MacGregor

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