Our Hero, Balthazar

Solomon is a real guy that there are probably like 200 of, but Balthazar is a completely new type of guy never seen before. I didn’t even know we could still invent new guys. I loved the queerbait marketing they were doing for this movie but like fr what they did here is super interesting and nooottt like any other movie I’ve seen before. I think some parts of the characters could have been more fleshed out but then other parts felt so fucking real so idk. My matt Johnson brain disease really wants me to make connections with this and the dirties mainly with the thing of a kid who’s weird and doesn’t really have a lot of friends and who falls into these stereotypes of what a school shooter is and almost gets pushed into the role because of way the media like picks out these things and traits and turns them into things to look out for in kids. And because the kid is being essentially told by society you’re a school shooter they then try to take up the role. Like you see this kinda for one tiny second in this when Solomon is saying I tried to be it and then I tried not to or whatever. Idk I’m losing steam for writing this and I’m getting sleepy but like it’s a really interesting thing to me and I’m definitely not explaining it well here. This movie was really good but I feel like I wish there was just a little more of both of the main characters like a little more meat to them. Idk I need to think more about this tomorrow 🤔.

there's just something about solomon being a clear victim of csa, despite thinking and playing it off as normal, and balthy, who desperately wants to be the perfect victim/hero.

amazing performance by butterfield. you can't tell me that boy wasn't born and raised in the south.