Just as the images expand from very basic, hand drawn stick figures to collages and finally film images, so, too, does the simplistic capture of a very small boy encountering an expansive natural world soon enlarges into a treatise on industrialization, militarization and environmental distruction. Colourful animation. Music as life & hope. Fanciful adventures. The simplicity conveying a depth of meaning. However, I fell asleep around 55 minutes into it (then woke up and watched the rest of the DVD). Nominated for a 88th Academy (presented in 2016) Animation Oscar, this film has gained a lot of critical and audience applause. I, however, give the film a 6 (fair) out of 10. Though touching in places, it carried too laboured a burden and lost my attention. {Animated Documentary}
Review of The Boy and the World
