Florida project is one of those surprisingly good films that could have ended up horribly if the child acting wasn't spot-on.
It's so freaking difficult to have a good child actor and also have one that acts like a real child at the same time. It also helps that Bria Vinaite playing the mother gives a pretty good performance and Willem Dafoe is usually always great, so he should go without saying.
Really that's all I can say on the production Side of Everything. The camera work is very simple and luckily that's all it needs to be.
The music in the film is almost nonexistent. There's one pop culture song at the beginning of the film that gets cut off after about 30 seconds I can't even remember what it was and I'm now wondering if they have to pay royalties for using it a short burst like that I assume they do but I'd still be interested in knowing if that changes the rate at all. Also there's one Sammy popular song towards the end during the ''climax'' of the film.
It's a definite recommend.
A bunch of other people already said it's pretty good and now I'm going to join them.
The story revolves around a little girl named Moonei. Her mother and Defoe's character (Bobby). It's mainly just the three of them coexisting in this really cheap motel style tourist Resort that supposed to draw in customers who want to go to Disneyl̶a̶n̶d̶ (World) or the other attractions in Florida.
But most people that live here seem to be unassociated or unrecognized tenants.
Essentially poor people who are just trying to get by on life and constantly have to deal with various economic and some cultural issues.
It's one of those stories we're talking about the main events doesn't actually give you any contacts to the film. It's more like the book 'Don Quixote' or 'Three Comrades'.
There's a greater story going on, but you're watching it more for the simple interactions of the characters.
Is the communicate and argue about whatever it is they're doing. The closest thing we get to a plot point in this film is either Moonie's mother trying not to get evicted from her motel room or just trying to keep her kid as she constantly loses her temper and creates bigger problems for herself.
Put knots in my stomach a few times. A few of the conflicts in this movie hit a little too close to home for me it made me a bit anxious while watching it. Which isn't made any better by the ending.
Speaking of the ending that's the one part of this movie I've seen people complain about. They're fine with the rest of the movie but they argued that the ending either feels forced or that it's somehow incorrect. As it was obvious that the people making the film (probably) didn't get permission from Disney to do the shots that they did.
Really I just don't get it.
Like the whole idea is that these two kids are at a point in their life where things are going to change and it's a depressing moment.
So they take a stab at it and try runing away to Disneyland. In hopes that there problems will just disappear.
If anything my problem with the ending was the mother shouting the F-word while the film zoomed in on her face.
That little part fell out of place to me.
The part with the children at the end almost feels made up, as if they only really did it in their hands.
But it really doesn't matter. The way people built it up you think it was this long 10 to 15 minutes long scene but it's literally just the last minute or two of the film.
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