Boy Kills World (2023)
7/10
Starring
Bill
Skarsgård
Jessica
Rothe
Michelle
Dockery
Brett
Gelman
Isaiah
Mustafa
Directed
by Moritz Mohr
Boy
Kills World is a funny action-comedy film about a boy who is going against the
city leaders where he lives. Boy (the main character, who is referred to throughout
the movie as Boy) is deaf and mute in this dystopian city. The city is ruled by
the Van Der Koy family, and Boy's mother was a rebel in the city. His little
sister Mina was also a rebel, and she was to him like his hero. The head of the
Van Der Koy family is Hilda, who once a year selects twelve people in the city
to participate in something called the culling, where they are killed on live
tv. Boy, Mina and his mother were selected at one time. Boy watched his mother
and sister killed, but somehow, he survived but was left deaf and mute. He was
saved by a Shaman. The Shaman then starts to train Boy in martial arts, giving
him hallucinogenic to strengthen his mind and to make him forget his life
before this, all this was so that he can be strong enough to enact revenge for
his dead mother and sister.
The thing
about this movie is not the above intro, but the way it is carried out. The
comedy comes up in all the unexpected places, and the character boy
communicates with us the viewers, by the voice in his head talking through the
movie as it carries on. Mina his sister he hallucinates, as he goes about his
life, she is beside him, talking to him and making him complicated.
The
acting as you will expect from Bill Skarsgård, who plays Boy is top notch. But
concerning the movie surroundings and the idea of the dystopian future, well
the movie did not waste too much time working on that. I do not know what the
budget of this movie was, but I can tell you much of it did not go into scenery.
The movie’s backdrop is very similar to the world we live now, which I think plays
into Boy’s engagement with his surroundings when he fights and runs. The whole
fight and running, one man against an army reminds you so much of the action
movies of the 90s. Where the bad guys are bad shots and the main character is a
good one, he never misses, but everyone else does.
The
movie’s big talking point is when the movie steers away from everything we know
is happening concerning Boy. Who he really is and how he became who he is. The
movie has a big twist, which I must be honest did not see coming from the
start. The movie plants the same kind of seed you will expect from a revenge
film and, like every revenge film there is always some twist, well this one got
me unawares, and for that reason alone, I ended up loving the movie the more.
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