Flutter

In my opinion we are in an age where filmmakers and artists in general take the minimalist approach too far, leaving us to want more. This movie is not afraid to make you feel. It takes you through a span of emotion that never feels disingenuous. It lets you laugh, cry and most importantly, dream. The story is genuinely hilarious at times and completely heart wrenching at others. Perhaps my favorite aspect, was that scenes of a very real and gritty human experience are interwoven with beautiful surreal imagery that is at times even psychedelic. This is done seamlessly, just as life is when seen through the eyes of a child. Flutter entertains and let's us escape. That is after all what art was meant to do.

Hands down excellent movie! It makes you think of how many people are raised with all the bells and whistles and still never got it right. Especially mothers who,(post above me), think it could be done differently because they had blah blah blah experience. ..weak constructive criticism if you actually think about it. There is no set in stone instructions on how to love. That being said enjoy the different perspectives on how many unfortunate mothers out there who can not pay for garbage drug prescriptions that come from doctors who really themselves are not healthy and intelligent about medicine. Many druggists today are drug dealers who get cash from drug companies that endorse them for prescribing their drugs. We need to wake up and relearn natural medicine and stop the corporate drug world that doesn't look into the lives of the individual. This movie shows how a mother (under certain circumstances) did what she had to do.

Loved the characters and story very much. This little destructive boy is amazing and he is a great actor.

Loved the use of directing and color as well.

I have not seen a lot of films with strong moms being a core concept but this is a good one.

Though I did not cry it did get to me and make me sad.

Love the pig so much and all of the scenes with the boy. His imagination is fantastic too and the animation is amazing for those scenes.

Good drama because it is funny effective but does not pull punches. Things are treated as realistic and not glamorous.

I really thought I would like this movie, but I didn't. The mother and son characters are very unlikable. Each had his own challenges and I kept waiting for them to start to overcome them. Lordy. Painful to watch a terrible, lazy, inept mother raise a completely thoughtless, undisciplined son. Just because you're poor doesn't have to mean you're filthy and stupid. Where was this mother's effort to earn money in a meaningful way. Or to raise a child in a happy but at least minimally structured way? Utter fail. Very little redeeming values to the characters. I thought this was supposed to be about a strong mother? Don't bother with this one. It will leave you frustrated.

Unlike other biased reviews from privileged women who have choices in life and chose wrong and are bitter, this review is about the movie.

This movie is shown from more than one view.

It's about a boy living with an illness in poverty living like all is normal like a child his age does.

It's about a mother trying to get by with what she knows.

It's about family trying to help them cope with little resources to help.

This movie shows struggles in life common to rural America that society left behind.

One should go into this movie with a clean slate and watch bit for what it is.

It is a simple movie not trying to wow, to prove anything, or to win anything. It just tells a story about the life of people that are born and made everyday due to aa steamroller society that chooses to ignore the have nots.