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There are feel-good movies and there are some feel-bad movies.

Most good films, of course, are in the middle and let us form our own judgements and feel our own feelings. Unfortunately, today's film was the feel-bad kind, a setup from the start, and if I had a clue this was so, I wouldn't have watched it.

Andrew Garfield stars in Boy A (2007)

It was on some recommended list that I saw and I am sure that I ignored all the signs.

A kid who made a mistake that sent him to prison, a release program guaranteed to violate his guarantee of anonymity and a set of circumstances that get him known in the cruelest way. The tabloids.

This is a fine film but its hero is doomed from the start. It is built in.

I understand that the makers of this film hope to evoke some empathy and understanding, even some outrage, in the viewer.

It is one of those things where hope builds and then is dashed unfairly.

I had to stop watching at a certain point because I could see him becoming undone. The normal life he is building for himself is collapsing and I do not want to see that.

I know it happens.

Enough. I am already upset before I see the film.

So, I have to give it a 2 out of Netflix5. The film rating that says I skipped to the end.

I have no defense other than that I have no tolerance for suffering of this kind and I do not want to watch it voluntarily.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Labels: crime, films