This movie was an amazingly beautiful and immersive look into what it's like to be a child in what feels to us adults like a pretty grim situation. I enjoyed it and thought it was a great (unconventional) movie.

This movie is amazing. The way it shows us the world from a kid’s perspective is incredible. You see kids just being kids. You see kids being exposed to bigger issues without understanding everything. It also shows the struggle some people have just to survive. Even someplace magical, like outside Disney World. Willem Dafoe is fantastic, one of his best performances.

Little kids abandoned to their own devices. The opening scenes were so crude and raw and void of care and protection that I wasn't sure I wanted to see this movie. After reading the story behind this film I persevered. This is a dark and unvarnished look at people lost in their own lives, except, it is from a child's point of view. Hard to watch. Sad. Poignant. Important. Good performances, although I grieve that such young children actors are encouraged to portray bad behaviour before they are old enough to be equipped to filter the correlation between attitudes, actions and consequences. Another uncomfortable movie well portrayed. I give this a 7 (good) out of 10, for the stark exposition of life and the compelling performances. [Drama]

This movie made me feel bad about the new generations. Uneducated, rude, full of sorrow, ugly and hopeless kids. What else should they get in a world full of drugs, prostitution, and other bad habits? I can't imagine the future with kids growing up like this, but unfortunately this is a sad fact and reality of many people.