Big Boy (II) (2011) User Reviews

A terrible 'film'

[fl-stuit · 1/10 · 31 January 2013]

A terrible 'film'.

Watched this one on IFFR (Rotterdam Filmfestival), but unfortunately it was a waste of time!

Poor video quality (mostly blurred), poor (and sometimes even missing) audio, very poor editing and a lousy story. It was like watching an old family movie together with your grand-parents, only without the nice personal stories of back then. Very boring and terribly bad quality. This shouldn't be playing on a festival like this!

I can imagine that some people like this film exactly because of these (poor) aspects and say that it is 'ingenious art' or some kind of purity/authenticity. But I personally think Big Boy is just a shame for all film producers and editors.

Not easy but interesting

[kakapo3-451-697872 · 7/10 · 5 February 2022]

It has the form of a bad super-8 film and not really a plot. Nevertheless if you pay attention you get quite interesting bits. Like the selling of younger siblings or the exclusion of the main character just because he is poor. It's a description of a horrible childhood, in a horrible time at a horrible place. Like a child you don't have any explanations, you don't even know that things could or should be better. In a way this film is unique in bringing the dark side of our civilisation to live without moral, without blaming and shaming, without Western arrogance and (sadly) without class war.