I'm Not Scared DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (MEDITERRANEO) masterfully directs this eerie & engrossing suspense thriller involving a 10-year-old boy who lives in rural southern Italy It is summertime & Michele (Guiseppe Cristiano) is free to spend the long sunny days riding his bike & running through the wheat fields In fact the wheat could be considered Michele&s costar as it often consumes the entire scope of the screen showing how Michele plays hides & ponders life in the vast expanses of flowing yellow stalks Because there are only a few other children in the village Michele often plays alone & one day he discovers a hole in the ground obscured by wheat where a boy his age is chained & imprisoned The boy has clearly been starved & mistreated yet Michele approaches him fearlessly & attempts to make friends with him With the dreaminess that is a 10-year-old&s truest treasure Michele doesn&t ask too many questions nor does he draw conclusions about why the boy is in the hole or who put him there Through the expressions on young Michele&s face viewers can read his light questioning of human existence human morality & human rights However as the film draws on subtly revealing shocking secrets about the adults in Michele&s village the beauty of this utterly simple yet deadly powerful plot come clear I&M NOT SCARED is a moving film built on crystal clear images of the Italian sun sky & wheat fields; strangely offset by its startling loss-of-innocence story