This forgotten Todd Field classic is eerily prescient today. I first read Tom Perrotta's book, Little Children, when I was in graduate school at Boston University. Maybe it was partly because I read the book where the story took place, but I fell in love with all the characters, the slightly disturbing world, and the incredible payoff. We can all agree that if you love a book, its movie adaptation usually has a long way to go in order to impress us. But somehow Todd Field's vision lives up to the hype. The movie takes the best elements of the book and finds a way to translate them to the screen. It uses a voice-of-God narrator to keep the book's perspective as well, constantly asking us to judge the characters at the center of the movie the way we do in the novel. This judgment also lets us see the consequences of what we root for and fear for as the story unfolds. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 6 July, 2021