TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

secondtake I'm Not Scared (2003)This is just slightly offbeat enough it might grab you good. And the main character, a 10 year old boy, is really effective—believable, compelling, complex. That the movie isn't a masterwork might not matter—it has parts, and aspects, that are really strong.The concept is basic—some back country thugs have gotten themselves into a kidnapping, and they aren't really quite good enough at the task to follow through. So the child is captive in a hole in the ground. That's weird and awful enough to get your attention. And it comes to light slowly, as the main character stumbles on this fact and then tries to befriend the captive boy without the kidnappers finding out.Which of course isn't going to happen. The movie really gets intense in the last half hour. Before that it is slow to the point of too slow for my taste—lots of scenes of the kinds playing in the dry loneliness of some part of Italy made of wheat fields and little else. It's set in the late 1970s, so there is no real technology involved—no cell phones, no computers. Just an old television that the group gathers around for the news once a night.The plot actually isn't what carries the movie, though I'm sure it's necessary as a vehicle for some. What works best is the whole situation—the simple folk with big ideas about the world in this beautiful but utterly isolated (and unnamed) place. If you tire of endless scenes of the kids running or biking through the great landscape, you realize the director didn't quite have much else to work with. A better sense of the kid's family, beyond the kind of rough clichés presented, would have given the movie needed depth.As it is, it's strangely simple, and yet the simplicity is what matters, and what made like it as much as I did.

talemunja Long time i didn't watch such a natural movie where characters act as they are, simply human beings.We often see egoistic, narcissism behavior and in many movies characters behave like nobody in real life. In this one you see people acting like people, the way how they dressed to the way how they behave-everything seems normal, they are people right? Not some fake Holly_Wood(A.K.A. Bullywood) horrible persons from fake ping glass world that make you to puke. This is the reason why Europe production is powerful, especially Italian. It's unique,intelligent and most important: They respect viewers, they don't assault intelligence of viewer. You definitely must watch this movie, don't miss it.

museumofdave The brilliantly sunny wheat fields of Italy are contrasted with a dank, dark hole accidentally discovered by a young boy after his sister loses here eyeglasses; the black hole houses an even darker surprise that affects him with consequences never anticipated.Much more than a simple suspense tale, this evocative immersion in Italian country life depicts a young man grappling with moral issues as simple as peace with his friends and as complex as the integrity of his parents; it dazzles the eye with the color of brilliant orange field flowers, teases the mind with probable outcomes, and satisfies the intellect with puzzles which linger in the mind about the world we build for our children. Highly recommended

conlansean www.film-studies.net In a welcome addition to the list of texts,Leaving Certificate students in Ireland are being given the chance to study "I'm Not Scared" as part of their Comparative Study in English.Michele, a young boy living in the poverty of "Southern Italy 1978" starts to realise that he does not have to behave exactly as others, especially his parents, tell him to do. In the early scenes of the film he discovers in himself a moral sensibility that compels him to rescue a maiden in distress. In doing this he goes against his peers. His main motivation at this point in his life is to stay out of trouble with his parents, so he has to return to the site of this deed to retrieve his sister's glasses, which he had lost. This introduces the theme of seeing clearly which runs through the rest of the film. He discovers a black hole and peers into the darkness. What he sees there comes to act as a symbol for all the fears that children have of the world around and ahead of them. At first there is only horror but gradually Michele sees the beauty beyond that horror as he takes more and more responsibility for what he has found in the darkness. In the end he learns to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, regardless of the commands of his father. The photography and use of colour are remarkable in this film as is the use of point of view which shows the action throughout the story from the perspective of the child. A rich layer of irony covers the narrative as the audience can see many things in the story that Michele fails to notice. Various themes are explored: childhood and adulthood, good and evil, secrets, growing up and developing a conscience inter alia. The imagery is extremely rich and the camera is used as part of that imagery e.g. in the scene in which Michele comes back to the village after falling from his bicycle: the camera-work unites all the people of the village and excludes Michele. The scene then culminates with his father actually banishing him from the community. The varying palette of colours from purple and red flowers, golden corn and blue skies to the grey clouds of the thunderstorm and the darkness of the hole, the kitchen and the night offer much food for thought as the film unfolds. For Leaving Certificate students in Ireland and viewers all over the world this film provides much to think about and savour.