Radio Flyer Wagon Does Tom Hanks Ever See His Brother Again
Recently, I was talking to someone nearly who I thought were the best child actors when I was as well a child. 2 that actually stood out to me were Elijah Wood and Joseph Mazello, and one film those two were in together was chosen Radio Flyer. And so I was reminded almost the uniqueness of this film. Instead of reviewing the film, I wanted to have an open discussion virtually the catastrophe.
It deals with a tough issue; kid abuse. What I've noticed is the way that the moving picture ends is interpreted many different ways, and the filmmakers never came forwards to say what was right and wrong. I'm interested in hearing everyone'south opinions on it. How did you lot translate the ending? Obviously spoiler alerts volition follow..
For those of you who haven't seen the pic, the basic premise is this: Two young boys, Mikey (Wood) and Bobby (Mazello) move in with their single mother and her swain, who refers to himself as 'The King'. It doesn't have long for The King to start physically abusing Bobby, and the mother turns a bullheaded eye. The finish of the film shows the boys building their Radio Flyer (named after the scarlet wagon they have) for Bobby to fly abroad and be free of The King. He succeeds, and we are being told this story by the developed Mikey, who in turn is telling information technology to his ain children. Now, I've read people's opinions on the ending, and these are the about common ones I've constitute. Delight excuse me if I've left one out.
ane)Bobby was actually killed by The King, and this is but Mikey's way of coping with information technology. Only telling his children that his blood brother really did fly abroad in his wagon.
2)There was no younger brother, it was all in Mikey's head. This was just a style of him coping with his own abuse. He imagined that he had a weaker younger brother that was really the burden of all the abuse.
3)There was no older brother, same situation as the previous, only it's the abused child pretending he has a strong older blood brother.
iv)The child actually did wing away in his magic wagon.
Now, I was five when this moving-picture show came out, and I recall seeing it on TV around the age of seven or eight. So at my immature age, the thought of Bobby actually flying away in a wagon wasn't too far-fetched (hell, the clown from The Poltergeist seemed pretty real to a seven yr old) I idea okay, it was a fantasy motion picture and that'southward how it concluded. Then re-watched it as an adult, and it got me thinking. This wasn't the film I remembered.
I run into information technology now as reason 1. Bobby really died afterward a particularly intense beating from The King. (Though some think he died when he plummeted to his death in the Radio Flyer, but the beating makes more sense to me) When elder Mikey is telling this story to his children, they question his ending. He says he tin change information technology since he's the i telling the story, which to me meant that his children were enlightened their uncle was expressionless, but he wasn't revealing exactly how. The "letters" that Mikey gets every bit an developed from his blood brother, that I couldn't really explain. Maybe he writes them, maybe his mother felt guilty and wrote them. (though that's a bit farthermost to continue it into adulthood) What do yous retrieve? I've heard theories that when Mikey is being beat upwardly during the game of football he is playing with the neighborhood kids is just his mode of treatment the beat down from The King. Expert point, I can run into that. Some people betoken out during the motion-picture show that the female parent really doesn't address both boys at the same time. (which I disagree with) I recall there were two boys.
I'm interested in hearing your opinions.
Thanks for reading!
ETA: Since I published this post back in 2010, This popped up about a twelvemonth later. Information technology's referenced a few times in the comments, but I figured I would edit my original post to show that I take indeed read information technology.
Source: http://ramblingfilm.blogspot.com/2010/04/random-ramblings-radio-flyer-conundrum.html
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