This movie has a lot going for it. Great cinematography, great acting and of course a good score (the dream sequence is genius). Sadly, the director can't take all these great parts and make it into a great movie, maybe because whenever you tackle such hard subjects you can't expect the audience to enjoy a fragmented delivery and a bad script. There are excellent scenes, sure, but the movie would have been much better without the ending. It would have worked well as just a story about a little monster and two bad parents. Throwing the totalitarian leader theme in the mix (I didn't say fascist because the soldiers clearly resemble the Red Army) made no sense at all. How does a foreign kid become the leader of a NATIONALIST movement//party??? His mother is German but the father is not, also the army uniforms and the state of the buildings suggests that he took power in a communist country in eastern Europe. It just made me laugh... Also the camera movement at the end was ... me rolling my eyes numerous times and calling the director more pretentious than Darren Aronofsky. Good effort, a lot of work for sure, but you can skip this one and not miss anything.
Review of The Childhood of a Leader
