By far one of the most disturbing yet impactful movies I have seen on how war creates deep trauma footprints that effects not just a heart of a boy but the souls of the entire world that is tainted by war.
In the Painted Bird the boy who seeks safety and security from the disheveled life of war, instead is met with shattered people and scattered pieces of hopes and dreams which leave scars on his heart as deep as the welts on his back.
The boy's daily survival through war displacement left him seeking better days, safer homes to live...but he is constantly met with the ugliness and depravity of people who are war afflicted, deeply traumatized and have lost freedom, security and hope...and have nothing in them safe to give to a lost orphan of war.
So as the boy seeks refuge he is met by people devoid of heart and escapes time and time again in hopes of finding safety at each stop on his journey to find home. Instead he lay witness to horrors beyond imagine and the scars of war and human depravity mark his body and soul. While he tries to survive he becomes the very sickness he tries to escape from.
In the end the boy is captured and while he is far from where is wants to be....there is hope as he finds safety and security and eventually "home". While it is not perfect and the boy is filled with anger he sees it is a start and a road to safety and love...and he gets closer to comfort he finds safety and connection and once again has a name.
In the Painted Bird the boy who seeks safety and security from the disheveled life of war, instead is met with shattered people and scattered pieces of hopes and dreams which leave scars on his heart as deep as the welts on his back.
The boy's daily survival through war displacement left him seeking better days, safer homes to live...but he is constantly met with the ugliness and depravity of people who are war afflicted, deeply traumatized and have lost freedom, security and hope...and have nothing in them safe to give to a lost orphan of war.
So as the boy seeks refuge he is met by people devoid of heart and escapes time and time again in hopes of finding safety at each stop on his journey to find home. Instead he lay witness to horrors beyond imagine and the scars of war and human depravity mark his body and soul. While he tries to survive he becomes the very sickness he tries to escape from.
In the end the boy is captured and while he is far from where is wants to be....there is hope as he finds safety and security and eventually "home". While it is not perfect and the boy is filled with anger he sees it is a start and a road to safety and love...and he gets closer to comfort he finds safety and connection and once again has a name.