The Childhood of a Leader

A slow study of how aristocratic parents didn't do right by their asshole kid. Their coldness and rigidity (and politics) are later externalized into some sort of dictatorship, but hey, the title says it all. Similarly, this new maestro Corbet has (like dozens of his contemporaries) a fascination with the clinical and meticulous, only to add ominous pomp like there is a Wagnerian opera just waiting to burst out of his chest. It's the reductive version of the already hysterical The White Ribbon.

A strange film. I really wanted to like it more than I did. I think a better delivery would have been to use flash backs, to develop more of a sense of how the childhood influenced the dictator. As it stood, the two time frames were isolated and it left me confused as to how one became the other. The score by Scott Walker is exemplary, though.

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Viewed January 9, 2017. Intense and idiosyncratic debut that consistently impresses with its assured direction. Brady Corbet's flourishes are sure to alienate some, but the sum product is viscerally thrilling in ways that very few first time filmmakers are ever able to reach. As good as the film is, Scott Walker's score is even better - maybe even too good.

Çocuğun ilerleyişi çok kopuk, bu hoşuma gitmedi. saf kötü bir insanın çıkması için çok daha fazla şey olması gerek sanırım. Süresi de gereğinden fazla uzun, daha fazla şey söylemesi gerekirdi bu kadar dk'da. Müzikler çok iyi ancak.

A hoity-toity non-story. The (Herrmann-pastiching) Scott Walker score sparked my interest in this one, and the film itself reminds one of much of his work; a portentous, ominous game of free-association on the psychology of fascism (though without Walker's intriguing obtuseness). Giving us a little more look into the "leader" as an adult and his nation, or even just changing the title so as not to reveal early the premise of the film, would have gone a long way towards making it feel worthwhile.

If you thought The White Ribbon was too literal-minded...

The Childhood of a Leader (2015) such a good and gruesome idea. It tickles the mind as to what will make a child click. Visually it fits the period it's made and you get the feel of the surroundings. They put so much thought into all those details that they fumbled the narrative aspect of it. While it's bubbling underneath, it never explodes the way it should have. Unfortunately, for I would have easily put this high on favorites list had that part been nailed.

It's the kind of well produced film that I wish was less boring. Pattinson doesn't have all that much to do in this, you spend 90% of the time with a child going for that unsettling dead inside style of acting. At least we got a scene with those black european kkk looking hoods