Take out the scenes in the court and the whole premise of the kid suing his parents. Take out the philosophical thoughts of this kid about life, take out the artificial conflicts, the slow motion, the arguments with his parents, the dramatized running after his sister or running with the knife. Take out everything that feels fake, constructed and for the sake of being liked or being profound, take out all the big messages that this director so hardly wants to convey and you might end up with a much better, honest, true to life 90min film after all. A film that sends the same messages about parenting, kids and poverty on a more subtle, believable way. Unfortunately, now we can only witness this long set of scenes that have the occasional sparkle (especially in the second part) but feel utterly disconnected. So at the end it leaves us unimpressed or not really interested in the outcome for this boy, court hearing or anything else that is of great matter to the authors of this film. Sometimes less is more.
