*This May Contain Some Unharmful Spoilers*
Broken Wings is right on the line of those dark and depression movies that deal with emotional themed matters. I like those kinds of movies, and this is one of the better ones. I think the best part about it is I like putting myself into one of the characters situations. Then I ask myself "What would I do?" if I was dealing with what they're dealing with. Several ideas run through my mind at the same time, and all are hard thoughts to think about. I hope that's just my preferable taste in movies instead of me being a depressed negative person.
A 17-year-old girl named Maya Ulman (Maya Maron) has written a song titled "Cartoon Lyrics", and dedicated it to her father, whose death was unfortunate unspeakably. Maybe one of the biggest events of Maya's life was turned around because of her mothers, Dafne Ulman (Orly Silbersatz Banai), random night shift at the hospital. Maya is so emotionally unstable because she blames herself for her father's death. She was with him, and she could've saved him. She and her mother can't get along seeing is that they are both emotionally unstable. Her mother works at the hospital, and when you have four kids to look after, night shifts can be rough. Maya is given the chance to record, by a phone call of some big time music producer, but after the recent hospitalization of her younger brother, and problems with her guy friend, she declines.
Maya's twin brother Yair (Nitai Gvirtz) is a mouse. Really, it's his job go to around handing out applications in a creepy mouse costume. After the fathers death Yair has dropped out of school and has since then lead a fatalist life neglecting his siblings, his mother, and his ex- girlfriend Iris (Dana Ivgy). Iris departed for a while for reasons I forgot, she is inattentive toward Yair when she returns. He did not write to her in her absence. Both Yair and Iris condition at school is the same because neither can come on campus unless medically and therapeutically treated.
Maya's youngest brother Ido (Daniel Magon) has depressed issues with his mother, and takes it out one himself. Maya's younger sister Bahr (Eliana Magon) feels as if she is always neglected, and that scares her. Ido has a peculiar take for dangerous stunts, and for his very nice camcorder. His stunts lead him to his 'down fall.' Maya is late for her first day of school because Bahr won't go the preschool without her mom, Ido skips school because it was either that or be beaten up by some cowards his age.
Broken wings means, I can only safely assume, the once stable family that soar, are now broken. Broken, but not permanently, this movie tells us so. Two brothers, two sisters, and a single mom, and an unforgotten father are there to tell us a story about a broken wing. You realize that it takes lots and lots of duck tape to fix a broken wing.
This movie was hard to write about. One, because it can only be explained nicely if you watch the movie, and second this movie has so much in it for a ninety-minute film. So it is difficult trying to get my opinion down gracefully. Simple and clean, Broken Wings is a very well done foreign film.
***1/2/**** Stars
Broken Wings (2002): Rated R for some language, brief nudity and drug use
Broken Wings is right on the line of those dark and depression movies that deal with emotional themed matters. I like those kinds of movies, and this is one of the better ones. I think the best part about it is I like putting myself into one of the characters situations. Then I ask myself "What would I do?" if I was dealing with what they're dealing with. Several ideas run through my mind at the same time, and all are hard thoughts to think about. I hope that's just my preferable taste in movies instead of me being a depressed negative person.
A 17-year-old girl named Maya Ulman (Maya Maron) has written a song titled "Cartoon Lyrics", and dedicated it to her father, whose death was unfortunate unspeakably. Maybe one of the biggest events of Maya's life was turned around because of her mothers, Dafne Ulman (Orly Silbersatz Banai), random night shift at the hospital. Maya is so emotionally unstable because she blames herself for her father's death. She was with him, and she could've saved him. She and her mother can't get along seeing is that they are both emotionally unstable. Her mother works at the hospital, and when you have four kids to look after, night shifts can be rough. Maya is given the chance to record, by a phone call of some big time music producer, but after the recent hospitalization of her younger brother, and problems with her guy friend, she declines.
Maya's twin brother Yair (Nitai Gvirtz) is a mouse. Really, it's his job go to around handing out applications in a creepy mouse costume. After the fathers death Yair has dropped out of school and has since then lead a fatalist life neglecting his siblings, his mother, and his ex- girlfriend Iris (Dana Ivgy). Iris departed for a while for reasons I forgot, she is inattentive toward Yair when she returns. He did not write to her in her absence. Both Yair and Iris condition at school is the same because neither can come on campus unless medically and therapeutically treated.
Maya's youngest brother Ido (Daniel Magon) has depressed issues with his mother, and takes it out one himself. Maya's younger sister Bahr (Eliana Magon) feels as if she is always neglected, and that scares her. Ido has a peculiar take for dangerous stunts, and for his very nice camcorder. His stunts lead him to his 'down fall.' Maya is late for her first day of school because Bahr won't go the preschool without her mom, Ido skips school because it was either that or be beaten up by some cowards his age.
Broken wings means, I can only safely assume, the once stable family that soar, are now broken. Broken, but not permanently, this movie tells us so. Two brothers, two sisters, and a single mom, and an unforgotten father are there to tell us a story about a broken wing. You realize that it takes lots and lots of duck tape to fix a broken wing.
This movie was hard to write about. One, because it can only be explained nicely if you watch the movie, and second this movie has so much in it for a ninety-minute film. So it is difficult trying to get my opinion down gracefully. Simple and clean, Broken Wings is a very well done foreign film.
***1/2/**** Stars
Broken Wings (2002): Rated R for some language, brief nudity and drug use