After every new war movie I ask myself one question, Was this story should've been filmed or is it just a new war movie that doesn't have a special thing?
In this case I didn't think a lot, the answer was obvious, this story is really unique and I didn't know about it before, and the fact of that this story is a true story makes me wonder why the hell didn't any filmmaker tried to film it before?
Stories like this are hidden from the screen because the filmmakers are busy with remaking Disney's animated movies.
The story was heart-touching, the first act was really hard to see, as those trying to adapt to a new lifestyle, which is? the life of freedom, the life that they never have seen it before, although all of this if I'd make "A feel-good movie" list, I think I'll put this movie in it.
The movie isn't about showing sympathy to those children, it's a message of hope.
It's the first movie that I saw from Michael Samuels, but GOD! I liked his cinematic style a lot, his choice of pale and dark colors in the first act then they get brighter and brighter was brilliant. And by talking about colors I'd love to appreciate the cinematography. But I think the most effective tool for him was the music. The music had played an important role in delivering emotions to the audience no tool could've.
But there was a big problem for me, the dialogue. It was well-arranged to the level of poetic, I asked myself "Would a character with this backstory really say that?" a lot in this movie, there were sentences that seem more like speeches from the mature older version of those characters.
It's the first movie that I saw from Michael Samuels, but GOD! I liked his cinematic style a lot, his choice of pale and dark colors in the first act then they get brighter and brighter was brilliant. And by talking about colors I'd love to appreciate the cinematography. But I think the most effective tool for him was the music. The music had played an important role in delivering emotions to the audience no tool could've.
But there was a big problem for me, the dialogue. It was well-arranged to the level of poetic, I asked myself "Would a character with this backstory really say that?" a lot in this movie, there were sentences that seem more like speeches from the mature older version of those characters.