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Review 1DiscussionA review by Stephen Campbell
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Written by Stephen Campbell on Mon Sep 16 2019
**_A poignant and poetic evocation of childhood_**
> _We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful - little animals, clawing at what we needed._
- Justin Torres; _We the Animals_ (2011)
A remarkably contained and intimate story featuring only five main cast members and around ten locations, _We the Animals_ is about a young boy awakening to the fact that he's homosexual. Equal parts disassociated lyricism and warts-and-all grittiness, in attempting to untangle the struggles concomitant with his burgeoning queerness, the film looks at issues such as the ever-increasing di...
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Keywords
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- coming of age
- drawing
- new york state
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- child protagonist
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