Wild Sew I Don't Know

I can't stop thinking about Wild Tigers I Have Known. I'm slightly unsure why, but will try to gather my thoughts here on the subject.

For starters, the movie was nothing like I thought it was going to be. It was not very dialogue heavy, and the narrative was not fed to me like a narrative traditionally is. My expectations were exact though, and I found myself getting embarrassed and upset that I had wanted to see a movie that was just so blatantly art house and overly pretentious. It feels like every cut in the movie is a fade to black. I almost snapped about halfway through. I had worked myself up to a state that made me impossible to enjoy what I was being given.

About 3/4ths of the way through the film though, I realized that even though what I expected wasn't happening, what I was being given was actually miraculous. When I stopped being a bitch about it, the film really started to appeal to a part of me that I thought didn't even exist. Information in the film seems scarce in the way of dialogue, but when you do get it it's amazingly powerful. It's a pieced together faction of memories and reality, and while a permanent overarching story is in place, it isn't thrown at you constantly. It cuts to scenes that at the beginning slightly annoyed me, but become stronger as the film goes on, and shows you glimpses of loneliness and struggle a young boy in this position faces. They're beautifully shot. And even though the film didn't necessarily come across as sad while I was watching it, it sunk into my mind as deeply depressing upon review.

The main character, played by Malcolm Stumpf, is absolutely gorgeous on all counts. While not the strongest dialogue actor, his body language is absolutely fantastic. The film touches on tons of themes detailing this boys struggle, including some very sexual moments and several hints to suicide throughout it. He does a great job of pulling off a very believable character, and I'm still heavily invested in it.

With my current mindset, I think I love this film, but it's one of those things I'd have a hard time recommending to anyone, mostly because I'm afraid that what I took away from it might be obscure and just native to me, and could be lost on someone else. Having said that, the person I watched it with also liked it, so.. go watch it and tell me. ):