Review of Little Children (2006) by Christian S — 27 Aug 2009

I am actually enjoying Kate Winslet acting lately. I feel like she has grown acting wise so much for the last four-five years. Whether it is Clementine Kruczynski or Sarah Pierce or April Wheeler, or even Hanna Schmitz (though I really do not like The Reader much) she has done a brilliant job nailing those roles and delivering their stories through her fine performances.

I have spent the whole afternoon/night watching Little Children and thinking about it. There were some holes to the story, or at least I didn't get them, like: why was the nanny upset? what was Sarah's husband role in all this, other than the obvious? For some reason he never made any attempt to reconcile things with her and I don't understand why. Or Ronnie, what was his motivation for what he had done? W never know.

But all in all, it was a brilliant, humanistic, honest, dramatic movie. Very twisted, very depressing and very thought-provoking, I might add.

Aren't we all just little children, especially when it comes to our relationships? Isn't Thoreau right when he says "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"?