A boy discovers the heavy burden of memory and emotion in a world engineered for blissful ignorance.
Earnest and intimate. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Kanopy (free), Hoopla (free), The Roku Channel (free), Fandango at Home (free), Pluto TV (free) and YouTube (free).
No sex or nudity and mild language, about what a PG-13 should carry.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 7.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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