The Boy and the World

2013 [PORTUGUESE]

Action / Adventure / Animation / Family

21
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 8011 8K

journey around the world modernity coming of age travel discovery world discovery

Plot summary

Suffering because of his father's departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.

Director

Alê Abreu Photo
Alê Abreu

Top cast

Alê Abreu Photo
Alê Abreu as Velho
Vinicius Garcia Photo
Vinicius Garcia as Menino
Felipe Zilse Photo
Felipe Zilse as Jovem e Vozes Adicionais
Lu Horta Photo
Lu Horta as Mãe
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
723.77 MB
1280*714
Portuguese 2.0
NR
Subtitles pt  
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 2
1.27 GB
1920*1072
Portuguese 2.0
NR
Subtitles pt  
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BabelAlexandria 8 / 10

An Aesthetic and Imaginative Triumph

Reviewed by Pau-palero97 8 / 10

The sad reality

Don't let the colorful animation of Boy and the World to distract you from its deep obscure meaning. From the beginning, I thought this was going to be another animated movie for kids but boy was I wrong. Boy in the World is about a Brazilian boy whose life is destroyed. His dad leaves to go find work and the boy want to go find him but instead he finds a terrible world where he is lost. The boy is more of a symbol in the movie, he represents the people of Brazil and how they have suffered because of modernization and capitalism. We can see how the other characters of the movie lose their humanity when they become factory workers or film workers. They are nothing to their country but a source of money. They work all day and they live in terrible conditions. We see a contrast of color and sound in some scenes specifically the ones were the people were being oppressed which give it a darker connotation. But the most effective scenes where not the animation one but when they show small clips of the real world and how bad things really are. A break from the fantasy and a crash into reality.The movie is a critique of the world we live in and how some people are lost to this society. People are stripped of their lives and are forced to become nothing but and income to those in charge and those in charge clearly don't care about them. The fact that the boy's dad is never found shows just how lost people really get in this world sometimes. I found the movie to be extremely effective at getting its message across. I couldn't stop thinking about this movie for a week after I watched it, it will really make you consider and look with a critical eye what is going on in the world now days. We can let other people be stripped of their humanity there must be something we can do.
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