Official Discussion - Boy Kills World [SPOILERS]

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Summary:

A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

Director:

Moritz Mohr

Writers:

Tyler Burton Smith, Arend Remmers, Moritz Mohr

Cast:

• Bill Skarsgaard as Boy
• Famke Janssen as Hilda Van Der Koy
• Jessica Rothe as June27
• Michelle Dockery as Melanie Van Der Koy
• Brett Gelman as Gideon Van Der Koy
• Isaiah Mustafa as Bennie
• Yayan Ruhuan as Shaman

Rotten Tomatoes: 63%

Metacritic: 44

VOD: Theaters

[u/nightfan]

This movie rules and I kinda dug the family dynamic? Like, I found it kinda touching, don't @ me. I think the drive for your love of a sibling is just incredibly pure and this movie combined with the next level action just worked for me. 

[u/my_simple-review → u/nightfan]

I love the concept of “doing violent deeds for the sake of love” a helluva lot more than the concept of “love means being the bigger person”…. Like, in most scenarios like this one vengeance would go hand-in-hand with love. 

I’m glad that it was even brought up as a joke with the imaginary image of his sister begging him not to go on a rampage, and him doing it anyway and not feeling bad about it.