Bye-Child
Bye-Child
| 28 October 2003 (USA)
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When a ten year old boy plays hide-and-seek with friends, he finds something that leads him to a terrible truth: no matter what progress mankind makes, many are forced to travel lunar distances beyond love.

Reviews
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
Fiona-39 This film starts with the sound of heavy breathing and the camera tracking backwards and forwards, keeping the bright white moon in sight. This opening sets up the key visual and aural themes of the film: heavy breathing, the inability to express oneself in articulate speech, the inadequacy of speech and then the moon - symbol of ancient pagan belief and the "miracle" of modernity, progress and science. In the midst of these philosophical motifs is a breathtakingly sad story of child abuse and sexual violence, handled with admirable restraint and sympathy. Wonderful poetic moments too - the close-up on the kettle reaching boiling point or the shock of the final revelation of the child's face. An amazing achievement by Mclaverty, and a film that speaks volumes in a very sparse, pared down, controlled use of sound and image.
gazzastrip The film is thought provoking and moving. As events quietly unfold, you are drawn in to the helpless position experienced by the woman and child. Through guilt she continues to care for her father, through fear she cannot seek help from the world, they are transfixed by the moon.
jimbopjoe Great movie, very deep and emotional. I like the theme running in the background of this with the man landing on the moon thing that is on T.V, about how man can spend billions of dollars on sending men to the moon and yet there isn't enough money to give this family in the movie councelling so that the child can live a better life even though being rejected by the old man (her father or the mothers father?) also that the child has been so isolated that she isn't any better off than if she was sent to the moon.