Just watched Who Can Kill a Child? (Island of the Damned), a film by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. Basically its about this British couple who are on vacation, and decide to sail over to an island off the Spanish coast, which they quickly figure out is completely ran by mad children.
Overall I really enjoyed this film, the overall story was good, forcing the question Who Can Kill a Child? and after watching, my answer is ME, I would definitely kill every kid on that island. Starting with the brat kid fishing and not telling the man what he was fishing for. It takes a while for the couple to realize this island is ran by kids, it takes a young girl who beats an old man to death with his cane for them to realize something is up. None of the kids had speaking lines, which I thought was interesting, adding to the mystery of the whole thing. The kids did a good job pissing off the viewers of this movie. Everyone of them had this annoying look to them, and every time someone died they would just laugh and run around, which was pretty terrifying.
The movie begins with footage of the casualties from war, and the people suffering. And through all the footage, they state how many kids have died during these wars. The intentions of this were to show that kids basically cant do anything while all the adults around them are fighting for whatever reason, killing everybody. So basically the movie is showing a bunch of kids who are turning the tables on the situation, and decide to kill all the grown ups. GENIUS.
Before viewing the movie, I had the intentions that a movie could not show someone killing a kid, well apparently they can, because the man kills a bunch. That was weird to me, because obviously its fake, but these kid actors actually had to pretend like they got shot and were bleeding to death, something about that doesn't sit right with me. Also, a scene including a bunch of kids ripping the shirt off a dead woman didn't seem right to me. Although acting, they are still forced to see and do things that children shouldn't be doing.
A part I thought was kind of strange was how all the kids could communicate with each other just by staring at each other. That seemed like the only really impractical part of the movie. Although I liked how they had the kid communicate with the baby in the woman's stomach in the beginning of the movie, basically telling it to kill her, which it does later in the movie! HA
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