Even those who hate Extremely Loud commend its acting, writing and cinematography. It's the underlying concept that seems to evoke the disgust. A word much used is "manipulative". The film makes it pretty clear what we're supposed to feel, and an emphatic score removes any room for doubt.
Yet surely most works of fiction are intended to provoke a preordained response. Another label that crops up is "exploitative". Extremely Loud dares appropriate pre-existing sentiment provoked by a great public tragedy that many hold to be sacred. However, plenty of films deal in such raw material without provoking protest.
Nonetheless, there is something about Extremely Loud that does indeed feel dubious. Why, for example, choose as your representative of the bereaved an year-old cutie with unusual and ill-defined issues?
Why have him embark on a peculiarly pointless quest? Why have him clutch an infuriating tambourine, and acquire a weirdo elderly sidekick? Presumably we're supposed to think these things will yield peculiar insights. Yet no such insights actually materialise. All that young Oskar's mission seems to reveal is that among New Yorkers selected at random heartwarming characters may be encountered.
It's not clear why this should dissolve the guilt under which he's been labouring or sort out his troubled relationship with his mom. French Trailer. Swedish Trailer. UK Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Dennis Hearn Minister as Minister. Caleb Reynolds Schoolboy as Schoolboy.
Stephen Daldry. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A troubled young boy, Oskar, is trying to cope with the loss of his father. Oskar starts lashing out at his mother and the world. Until a year later, he discovers a mysterious key in his father's belongings and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock, just as he used to when his father was alive.
On this journey he is bound to meet a lot of people and learn a lot about himself and his family, but will he ever find the lock? Rated PG for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images, and language. Did you know Edit. Goofs Oskar says that only humans cry tears and that a photo of an elephant crying must be Photoshopped, but elephants actually do cry tears. Quotes Thomas Schell : If things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding. User reviews Review. Top review.
Emotionally affecting but often frustrating. I found the main character very annoying at times. The best parts were the emotionally intense scenes of which there were several. The subject matter automatically lead in that direction.
What was important was that they were handled well and weren't too obvious or sappy or preachy, IMO. I don't normally cry during movies and I didn't, but I can see how someone could and there's something healing in that. There doesn't need to be any explanation for a situation for us to learn from it. Simply seeing other people deeply affected by disturbing things can make you feel less alone and give you faith in humanity.
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