All said this film was an excellent next move for an emerging child-to-adult actor. Radcliffe did well in it. He does restrained emotion very well, which allows viewers to be involved in the story but keep an emotional detachment from its progress. In that respect, the film isn't over dramatized. It accomplishes allowing viewers to identify with each of the boys without being sentimental, which I think shows the craft of the writing and direction more than any other facet of the film. It's clearly a very sad and traumatic time, in the adult mind watching it. But for the young ones living it it's just... life, a time that when processed later as adults, they realized how pivotal it was.
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