Is Miramax acting true to form as Joseph described?
I'm dying to see this one but Netflix still lists the release date as 'unknown.' 

I really don't feel that the ending is Hollywood SPOILER WARNING:



How do we know from the film that Michele will survive that full-on gunshot wound.  And I have to say that Mattia's arms reaching out, together with the music, had me cracking up for days after seeing this film.

Oddly enough, although the ending in the book appears bleaker, we learn quite early on that the story is being told by Michele in the year 2000 looking back on is poverty-level childhood.  But the scene where Michele and the kidnapped boy romp around in the sunlight is my favourite scene on film.  Beautiful and capturing the wonder of boyhood - with an achingly sour-sweet back story.  Film as poetry, indeed - he said pretentiously !

You're making me wish we had a Fry's where I live, Swede.

As you may have surmised from reading this thread joseph and I have a little disagreement over Flight of the Innocent. 

I look forward to reading your comments on both films.

I don't normally like to have two posts in a row, but I wanted to make sure people knew there was a new entry... besides, it's been a whole day!

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Okay, I've now seen both movies, and while I really liked both of them, I do have some comments:

1) Zab, it seems you JosephK have some disagreement on BOTH films, judging by your disparate ratings of "Flight" (you: 10 and him:6) and the various comments in this thread about "I'm not Scared."  Oddly, NEITHER of you rated "I'm not Scared."

2) Seeing "Flight of the Innocent" second, I didn't think it was as well made; there were cheesy breathing sounds and various  other idiosyncrasies that distracted me a little - but not enough to distract from the great parts of it.  I was sorta sorry that Simone couldn't have played a bigger part - he looked like an attractive kid.

3) I'm glad I own both of these movies (for less than $20 total)!  They are great to watch and quite tragic, even if the main boys didn't die in the end, and it breaks my heart that such things might *still* be going on (as they indicated was true in 1992 at the time of filming "Flight").

4) I recommend these films to everyone here; they're obviously available now to just about anyone/everyone.

***** SPOILER ALERT - if you haven't already read the posts above or seen the movies ****

Both movies might have been better films had the lead boy died, but liking them as I did, I'm SO glad they didn't    Which would have been improved the most? Probably "I'm not Scared."  It was definitely more set up for him to die and less likely for his wounds to allow him to survive.  Heck, I thought Vito in "Flight" only had a flesh wound with a small caliber pistol - Michele had a shot-gun at close range!

I saw this  very good movie which I have in DVD. Giuseppe CRITIANO and Mattéo DI PIERO have a very good play and are very moving !

YoungArthur wrote on 02. May 2014 at 14:34:


Yeah I really hate all those things....NOT! The Thai movie looks especially intriguing!