Reviewing Movies

If the Waltons serve as ideal role models the West's, in Little Boy Blue are about as dysfunctional as one could get. Deprived of his manhood as a result of a Viet Nam injury Ray has forced his son Jimmy to have incestuous relations with his wife Kate at gunpoint since the boy reached puberty. The resulting male progeny were cast to look remarkably like their father played by Ryan Phillippe.

If there is any sense of normalcy about this drama it is in the relationship between these two little boys and their brother/father Jimmy. Amid all the convoluted inter-weavings of the plot line we are drawn to the Hamlet like character played by the achingly handsome Phillippe.

Having finally tracked down a copy of this movie after 10 years; watching it again was like seeing it anew. The movie ends in Shakespearian like cross-piled bodies and we are left in doubt as to whether Jimmy has met a similar fate until the final scene.