Steve Reviews: My Life as a Courgette (My Life as a Zucchini)

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  @ShariVoffs · 6 years ago

  One of the things I really appreciated about this film was the sensible adult characters. And that the staff at the orphanage was actually not the villains. Such a tired trope.

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  @pineapplepizza4668 · 6 years ago

  The thing that broke me the most about this film was the little girl who’s mother was deported. The way she jumped out every time the doorbell rang or a car pulled up just to see if it was her mom. But the way she backed up as soon as she finally saw her again, as if she were scared. She didn’t know how to process it and she’d clearly been living without a mom for a long time. The fact that she got what she so desperately wanted, and was upset by it, that’s what got me. She’s the only kid who got their full ideal situation of having her parent back.

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  @FillaneAmmisto · 6 years ago (edited)

  Wow an orphanage where the staff isn't there to make the kids even more miserable? It's really refreshing

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  @endmii3912 · 5 years ago

  Simon said "They don't want kids at our age" then I IMMEDIATELY got a Trublend ad which says at the start "Get rid of what you don't need"

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  @danethanor · 6 years ago

  I wouldnt call Courgette a murderer, a child defending oneself from an abusive adult, if anything it would be manslaughter. Also their was no malice in him shutting the door on his mother.

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  @wolfyjohnson3589 · 6 years ago

  Another thing that points to Alice being sexually abused is how she is fixated on counting, something many sexual abuse victims have claimed is a way of coping "just count to a 100 and it will all be over", and how she starts freaking out the moment someone raises their voice, makes you wonder if she got the scar from her dad when he got mad, or if she happened to speak up against him and something happened. The movie has done such an amazing job with these characters, it really is an outstanding movie!

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  @cortexntc7981 · 6 years ago

  One thing I really wanna talk about is how zucchini kisses Camille on the bus. I feel that that scene is actually related to a prior scene when miss Rosie kisses zucchini on the cheek when she thinks he is sleeping. This is the first instance of affection he has received and so to show affection the only way he has learned he kisses Camille while he thinks she is sleeping much like the way miss rosie does.

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  @BubblyJubbly · 5 years ago

  You didn’t even talk about the very last scene?<br><br>I loved it when all the kids crowded around Rosy’s baby and asked her if she would ever give him up for adoption and every time, she said no. Perfectly unconditional love.

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  @ramonaflores3155 · 6 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s actually even more emotional in the original French dub. The way the actors speak is with such innocence yet knowledgable and raw emotions - I almost cried at the end.

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  @anglepsycho · 6 years ago

  The saddest part is even though I&apos;ve never been through the foster/adoption system, I&apos;ve been abused for simply having a disability. And the film is really good honestly, I love seeing films when they approach abuse right. (Unlike Cuties and 13 Reasons Why)

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  @HisShadow · 6 years ago

  Saying Courgette &quot;murdered&quot; his mother is off base. Murder implies intent to kill. Courgette just closed w door on his mom to keep her from hurting him.<br><br>I would say that he unintentionally killed her rather murdered her.

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  @ThuglasElBosso · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-GLG9HHMeo&amp;t=134">2:14</a><br><br>You think that escalated quickly? Boi, in the book, he fucking shot her.

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