Little Boy - Movie about Faith

[Darryl_Revok]

I agree that maybe he should have really thought this over or maybe he didn’t realize that in bringing this into the movie he was touching the left that feels if we had just not dropped the bomb everything would be fine… He maybe did not realize how over sensitive many are on this matter still today. In a major war, it is often pretty difficult come up with something that is not objectionable.

As I said, I don’t think it’s a question of over-sensitivity. It’s a question of tone and taste. The issues and events which Little Boy deals with are incredibly weighty, and it fails to do justice to them. It turned the events of the war into a cheesy prop for a flimsy story. It was akin a standard Up TV movie about 9/11, or a Hallmark Movie about the Khmer Rouge.

(In some ways, it’s like “The Day The Clown Cried”, a movie made by Jerry Lewis set in a concentration camp during the holocaust, and it was an abomination–so much so that it was thrown in a safe, never to see the light of day. It wasn’t because it wasn’t funny, or that people were oversensitive. It just tackled an issue in a hugely tacky, inappropriate way.)

Part of it is the nature of the genre, I think. The mainstream “faith-based film”–stuff like this, and God’s Not Dead, and Heaven is For Real–is not known for subtlety or moderation in tone. The limitations of the genre are more easily acceptable when dealing with modern fantasy, but become painfully apparent when cast against actual historical events.

He was looking for something that was cataclysmic. That was his point of the story not the bomb.

Thus, the problem: if he allowed something like this to overwhelm the point of the story, perhaps he was unsuccessful in making the point. That’s more of an artistic failure on the part of the director, rather than any oversensitivity on the part of the audience.

 

[randomuser]

(In some ways, it’s like “The Day The Clown Cried”, a movie made by Jerry Lewis set in a concentration camp during the holocaust, and it was an abomination–so much so that it was thrown in a safe, never to see the light of day. It wasn’t because it wasn’t funny, or that people were oversensitive. It just tackled an issue in a hugely tacky, inappropriate way.)

Wait a second - how do you know it wasn’t funny, or anything about this movie? The only person who has a copy of this movie is Jerry Lewis himself – and one of the only people to have seen in its entirety is Harry Shearer (from “The Simpsons”). It’s pretty much the Holy Grail, pardon the term, of rare video collectors. You have no idea how much this thread is now going to show up in Google searches for the movie.

 

[gam197]

As I said, I don’t think it’s a question of over-sensitivity. It’s a question of tone and taste. The issues and events which Little Boy deals with are incredibly weighty, and it fails to do justice to them. It turned the events of the war into a cheesy prop for a flimsy story. It was akin a standard Up TV movie about 9/11, or a Hallmark Movie about the Khmer Rouge.

(In some ways, it’s like “The Day The Clown Cried”, a movie made by Jerry Lewis set in a concentration camp during the holocaust, and it was an abomination–so much so that it was thrown in a safe, never to see the light of day. It wasn’t because it wasn’t funny, or that people were oversensitive. It just tackled an issue in a hugely tacky, inappropriate way.)

Part of it is the nature of the genre, I think. The mainstream “faith-based film”–stuff like this, and God’s Not Dead, and Heaven is For Real–is not known for subtlety or moderation in tone. The limitations of the genre are more easily acceptable when dealing with modern fantasy, but become painfully apparent when cast against actual historical events.

Thus, the problem: if he allowed something like this to overwhelm the point of the story, perhaps he was unsuccessful in making the point. That’s more of an artistic failure on the part of the director, rather than any oversensitivity on the part of the audience.

No I think it is over sensitive. . This was about 2 minutes of the whole film. No adult would think that this was a good thing. It was evil but war is evil. And if a child saw this as a preteen then it is time for a conversation about life and the value of life.

Now I would agree that he could of chosen some other event but it is pretty difficult to do. It was about World War II. His father had been sent to war and he wanted him back.I don’t know what he could have chosen. It would have probably been better to chose an event outside but he had already done that with another cataclysmic event so he was looking for something related to the war that was a major event that many felt shorten or stop the war.

Many, many war movies have been made and we have seen Americans shown as heroes for killing the “enemy”. World War II ended over 70 years ago. Should we avoid all War Movies?