Review of Vitus

The theme is too common, if not somewhat a clichés. It is a movie about a gifted boy, and his love for freedom. Yes, but what else then? I have seen so many movies about gifted people, but none of them is so boring like this one.

First of all, his love for music is wired. It is music that made him find his "princess", and it is music that forced him to get rid of the disguise. But what does this love for music actually mean for the movie as a whole? To me, it is something beautiful but totally redundant. I understood the impact his grandfather has had on him, so I understood the flying thing, the craftsmanship, and the final take-off scene. But why is music so important? Without music, we still knew he was talented because he was talented in many aspects. Without music, we still knew he was interesting, because he created the whole drama to deceive the tough mother...Only his love for Isabel explains music, but guess what, his love for Isabel is also redundant...What I could see is a deliberate tact to make him look funny, a man's mind in a boy's brain...But does he look funnier? Certainly not so noticeably...

Only the grandfather did a good job. And this is the only compliment that I can give...