indigo One of the reasons why Marguerite Duras came to the cinema from the world of literature was her dissatisfaction with the way her own books were filmed. Willful directors rewrote the scripts on her works as they wanted - they changed the finale, forced the characters to do the opposite of the originally planned ones, thereby distorting the meaning laid down by the author in their films.
The protagonist of the film “Children” Ernesto (aka Vladimir) is an unusual and very gifted child with superpowers for instant learning and assimilation of a huge amount of knowledge from various fields and fields of science. There are suggestions that such “indigo children” due to their advanced powerful intellect often commit suicide, since they simply are not interested in living, having exhausted the entire stock of knowledge of mankind and not finding a place among their “near” peers.
The film is shot in only 3-4 locations without any hint of dynamics, but nevertheless it is interesting to watch, thanks to dialogues filled with Ernesto’s philosophical arguments about the meaninglessness of being, the inadequacy of the educational system, the futility of sciences, the absence of God, heroism, etc. It is also interesting to see how the hero still tries to find his way of life looking at 40 in his 7-10 years and follow his reverent and tender attitude to members of his numerous family, who also understood his features.
9 out of 10