Contains Spoilers It has been a long time since I have seen Lamb but the film moved me deeply. When I saw the film I was experiencing difficulty at home with my father, I often dreamt of running away and I think that was why the film caught my imagination so much.
I loved the cheeky impudence of the little boy, I knew that at heart he was a good lad but needed to to be quick verbally to survive. The Neeson character is great, he was exactly the sort of role model kids like me wanted. You felt he knew what was going on in the boys mind and had some sympathy.
The Arsenal match was both the highest and lowest part of the movie for me, people may argue the lowest was the end but I differ. The realisation that the boy was incapable of being happy, of enjoying himself touched me at a very basic level. In essence it is for this reason that I feel Neeson did the boy a favour by drowning him, even though effectively he was taking on the mantle as now he had this burden on his own life.
I love this film, it has stayed with me right throughout my adolescence and I often think of it now as an adult. No other film has touched me in such a way, I just wish they would show it on the T.V. or that I could find the video. Not that I need it because the way I felt fourteen years ago is as strong now.
I loved the cheeky impudence of the little boy, I knew that at heart he was a good lad but needed to to be quick verbally to survive. The Neeson character is great, he was exactly the sort of role model kids like me wanted. You felt he knew what was going on in the boys mind and had some sympathy.
The Arsenal match was both the highest and lowest part of the movie for me, people may argue the lowest was the end but I differ. The realisation that the boy was incapable of being happy, of enjoying himself touched me at a very basic level. In essence it is for this reason that I feel Neeson did the boy a favour by drowning him, even though effectively he was taking on the mantle as now he had this burden on his own life.
I love this film, it has stayed with me right throughout my adolescence and I often think of it now as an adult. No other film has touched me in such a way, I just wish they would show it on the T.V. or that I could find the video. Not that I need it because the way I felt fourteen years ago is as strong now.