The film we watched this wednesday was called “Boy” and it was a realistic drama about the life of an aborigen child who was known by everyone as “boy”(although his real name was Alamein) and his brother “Rocky” and their relationship with their dad, an ex-inmate who got out of the jail killing two guards with a tea spoon, a marijuana adict, and a real disaster as a father.
Boy was quite a lonely guy, he only had five friends, Rocky, his granny and a goat called “Leaf”. During the movie, he used to talk to the goat, and tell her invented stories about him and a girl from his school who he was in love with.
One day their granny went to town to a funeral and she asked Alamein to look after his brothers until she got back. The first days were nice, Alamein took care of his brother, his cousins, and the goat, he went to school, and everything was fine, but one day, while they were playing at home, they saw a black car coming into the yard. Inside the car there were three guys. One of them was Alamein and Rocky’s dad.
These three men were members of a gang called the “crazy horses” and, as they told them, they wanted to look for of a treasure they had buried after escaping from jail.
Alamein was really happy with his father, and they spent a lot of time together, but Rocky wasn’t as happy as his brother, because he thought his father blamed him because his mother died after he was born.
Days passed and the crazy horses, with Alamein’s help , looked for the treasure persistently. Until one day, when Alamein, alone, found the plastic bag which contained one millon dollars. He was angry with his father, so he decided to keep it himself, and hide it where the goat lived, but one day, when he was going to show the money to his father, he saw the goat eating all the doughs. When he told his father, he got really angry, but after a period of the film in which everything went wrong, Rocky, Alamein, and their father ended up living like a family, and they could be happy.
The film, was quite slow and boring in some parts, but in general it’s interesting to see life in poor countries, and feel the misery in some parts of the world, thats why I think “Boy” is a good film, because it shows us that can get really hard sometimes, but at last, what counts is to have a family and good friends who will help you when you’re down.