Saturday, May 20, 2017
140 - The Kid with a Bike, 2011, Belgium, France, Italy. Dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne.
Every boy needs a father.
Just ask Cyril Catoul.
He is looking. Searching. Seeking.
More than one would search for lost treasure.
More than he would his own breath.
As though his life depended on it.
It does.
He skips school.
He goes to the last place his father lived.
He goes to all the people who knew him.
Samantha takes him in.
She becomes his foster mother.
It does not stop him.
He keeps looking.
Someone has stolen his bicycle.
Somehow they find it again.
It turns out to have been a boy.
A boy who is luring him into a gang.
By stealing his bicycle.
And letting them find it again.
And teaching him how to do the same.
Cyril discovers his father sold the bicycle.
For money.
For drug money.
The boys in the gang teach him how to ambush the innocent.
And hurt them.
To steal their money.
To deal drugs.
All he ever wanted was a father.
All he ever wanted was to be loved.
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