Review of Forbidden games (2015) by Al M — 16 Mar 2013
An achingly painful film that opens with a young French girl's parents and dog being killed in a German attack, Forbidden games follows the orphan as she takes up with another family in the French countryside.
She and the family's son become obsessed with dead bodies and begin to construct an animal graveyard. A heartbreaking portrait of war through the eyes of innocence, the forbidden games that the children play may seem ludicrous and morbid to the adults, but the film in a chilling unsympathetic way suggests that perhaps we should all try to see things through the eyes of children.
All of the adults in the film are despicable in one way or another--it is the adult world that leads to strife and war. Perhaps if felt for and cared about every life lost down to the tiniest insect, then war would become an impossibility.
This review of Forbidden games (2015) was written by Al M on 16 Mar 2013.
Forbidden games has generally received very positive reviews.
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