Oscarsse

In a sense it's too clean even though it's gritty, dirty discusting. In some ways it reminded me of my childhood, having safety and security, then everything goes away. And your world is turned up side down. And as a kid you don't understand. You long for normal yet, the normal has become what you don't understand. The ruleset is flipped and you can't trust anyone. Since they will impose terror on you, yet don't understand that they are doing that so when you can, you get back to whatever was because you know and understand the madness it makes sense. And it's not your fault, you are a kid and this should never have been.

I don't know what Asia Argento is trying to depict really, it feels like she is restrained, and telling tales about children and ACE - Adverse Childhood Experiences, is a tough one, you want to depict the nightmare that is reality, but you are not allowed to by regulations and also it's hard on the actors.

The script is chaotic. The viewer should think of this not as a film but as a recollection of the boy, going through his memories, because it is confusing to remember being overcome by guilt and shame and also hatred and loathing for the normals, the ones who abandoned you. Gave you back. Didn't look hard enough to see you.

I will never watch this movie again. It's better than passable, but not great. For me it was both hard to watch and somewhat of an enlightening, that someone understood portions of what my life was, even though the scenes are diffrent from my own, there is resemblance in the confusion.

Being a foster kid myself in the 90's I connected very much with this movie.

Max Hubacher does a really good impression of The Foster Boy, and it brought back very hard feelings for. The guilt of seeing your fostersiblings being treated bad. The grown up world not having a care in the world for you, being forced to beg for forgiveness when you tell the authorities you are being treated badly.

Merely continue existing by still having hopes and dreams, even when they are destroyed time and time again. Being promised to be looked after but in reality you find that you lack worth and is nothing more than something that can be used in diffrent ways. And having your schooling destroyed for no reason other than to please the fosterparents. Finally leaving and bringing all the guilt with you.

I won't say that I've spoiled anything. This is a hard film to watch for me and I cried quite a few times, because it really captures all the small details the I don't think people whose never been "cared for" by the system will notice but I notice them.

My final words are that it may be that it depicts the ca 1950s Switzerland, but it wasn't better in the 1990s Sweden and still is not in most countries. Kids are taken and treated badly.

You should watch this movie.

So this isn't for everyone. Without spoiling it I can relate. Skarsgård is good as always. And is this about trauma? I would say it is.

When everything you know to be true suddenly is off balance and its OK to do stuff because others do and does it to you, your tend to 'get with the program'.

I don't really think it's about trauma, but who can say. I would not recommend this movie to anyone really, it's blunt, overly aggressive and it should come with a trigger warning. Have you ever been incarcerated for the wrong reasons and been put in a strange situation, you do best in avoiding this picture.