| |
This is a film about divorce. When I went to school, we had just one kid in class whose parents were divorced. Now, in my daughter's kindergarten, five out of twelve children are from broken marriages. The traditional model of marriage is becoming obsolete, and there is no new, better model to replace it. The children are the greatest casualties of their parent's alienation. Divorce is extremely painful experience for every man and woman, but they can find comfort in friends, therapists, travels... They have access to instruments that can help them ease the pain of this difficult period in life. The child, on the other hand, has no escape route, no-one for a soothing conversation, it can't go to a shopping spree, or take up a sport. I have no interest in showing the point of view of a man or a woman as they go through a stessful divorce, I focus on the child. The child is the only and absolute witness of all spoken and unspoken words and harmful actions. That is the discourse of this film. |
|
