English title: The Kid with a Bike
A boy of 12 whose only living relative is his father - or so I gather - is placed by the latter under the tutelage of the State. The boy and a young hairdresser whom he meets by chance become gradually closer to each other until she is foster parenting him. But the boy makes some deleterious acquaintances which lead him astray into dark alleys, so to speak. Will the hairdresser persevere in her love for the brat?
The Righteous Brothers are back again, in force. Which means that every step of the plot, every nuance of character, everything in short, is exactly contrived in order to advance their agenda of betterment of the world (or of Belgium in the very least). And in their worldview all the solutions depend on individual love and self-giving. None of that is necessarily wrong, but I'm afraid it also means that the film has no aesthetical independence. It is an educational film. I, for one, am not sure it taught me anything I didn't already know; and if it did, how can one tell that what they taught is correct? What if there is an angle they excluded because it would not serve their purpose?
Rating: 40
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