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I'm Not Scared [DVD]

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Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia
Directors: Gabriele Salvatores
Format: PAL
Language Italian
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
DVD Release Date: 6 Dec 2004
Run Time: 101 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

ASIN: B0002LUB38
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,321 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (MEDITERRANEO) masterfully directs this eerie and engrossing suspense thriller involving a 10-year-old boy who lives in rural southern Italy. It is summertime and Michele (Guiseppe Cristiano) is free to spend the long sunny days riding his bike and running through the wheat fields. In fact, the wheat could be considered Michele's costar, as it often consumes the entire scope of the screen showing how Michele plays, hides, and ponders life in the vast expanses of flowing yellow stalks. Because there are only a few other children in the village Michele often plays alone, and one day he discovers a hole in the ground, obscured by wheat, where a boy his age is chained and imprisoned. The boy has clearly been starved and mistreated, yet Michele approaches him fearlessly and attempts to make friends with him. With the dreaminess that is a 10-year-old's truest treasure, Michele doesn't ask too many questions, nor does he draw conclusions about why the boy is in the hole, or who put him there. Through the expressions on young Michele's face, viewers can read his light questioning of human existence, human morality, and human rights. However, as the film draws on, subtly revealing shocking secrets about the adults in Michele's village, the beauty of this utterly simple yet deadly powerful plot come clear. I'M NOT SCARED is a moving film built on crystal clear images of the Italian sun, sky, and wheat fields; strangely offset by its startling loss-of-innocence story.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant acting, great imagery, but dont believe the blurb, 31 Dec 2004

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An introverted village boy discovers another boy imprisoned in a hole in the ground, and goes on to find out why he is kept there...

The whodunit element of the storyline, adapted from the novel by Niccol� Ammaniti, provides the film with a backbone, but I think it is not its main attraction. Although the front of the dvd box screams at us: Secrets! Betrayal! Murder! and the summary on the back promises us a 'suspense thriller' about an 'unspeakable crime', this is no fare for those who insist on gore and adrenaline. Most of the unpleasantness is verbal or happens between the scenes we are shown. But this story doesn't need big shocks to keep you (or at least me) watching.

To me this is a beautiful, contemplative film about how normal people may behave in the face of a crime they can't choose to overlook. You can't really tell what the characters will say or decide next, how they will react to the other characters' actions. You care for the people and you want them to make the 'right' choices - but you don't always know which option is morally preferable.

The child actors are absolutely brilliant... they are never too cutesy, and in fact you can never catch them acting. Both the children and the established adult actors are completely natural and convincing 'real people'. The dialogues are very well written, but the actors seem to be even better when they have no lines. Melodramatic outbursts are carefully avoided, as are easy conclusions about who's bad and who's good.

All this is set in a countryside that looks endless but is claustrophobic at the same time, and backed by a soundtrack that knows its place. In short: a pleasure to watch. In spite of the subject matter it won't depress you.

I have no complaints about sound and image quality, but I was a bit disappointed that the extras found on the Italian edition (making-of, director's commentary, gallery, trailer) are entirely absent from this version.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fab Film, 25 Aug 2005

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I would highly recommend this beautifully scripted and photographed film. I expected to see quite a creepy film about kidnap and murder (as it says on the cover of the DVD), however it failed to mention much about the talented young italian actors playing free, adventurous friends and the fabulous cinematography across the wild, rural landscape of Italy. I saw this film at a local Film Society and it has been by far the most moving and beautiful foreign film I have seen.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding example of European Cinema, 5 Sep 2005

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As with other reviewers, the box blurb was totally off-key. What I found was a beautifully photographed, thought provoking and deeply moving picture. There is little here for those who want the slam-bang of a Hollywood kidnap thriller. To me the kidnap was a secondary element to the themes of enlightenment and awakening. The way the director uses light, and the absence of light to illustrate the mental darkness in which Michele is held by his childish longing for his father's attention but how as he becomes aware of his father's role in the kidnapping and passive acceptance of the abusive nature of his co-conspirators, his illusions of his father as an heroic figure become shattered to the extent that he starts to loathe his father's selfishness in putting the family at physical, emotional and certainly moral risk. That his mother commences the same journey of enlightenment as she begins to sense Michele's awakening only adds to the depth of the story. Excellent character development and sublimely acted, particularly by the child lead.

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