I want to be a soldier
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I Want to Be a Soldier is a drama film
released in Spain
and at the Rome Film Festival in 2010. It is the fourth feature film of director Christian Molina.
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
released in Spain
Spain
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and at the Rome Film Festival in 2010. It is the fourth feature film of director Christian Molina.
Plot
Alex, a 10 year old child, develops an unhealthy obsession with morbid imagery, which marks him asocial. Unable to befriend his peers, he creates an imaginary friend and role model, whom he names Astronaut Captain Harry. Upon the birth of his twin baby brothers, Alex feels more neglected than usual. He emotionally extorts his father into buying him a TV for his room, and starts spending hours watching violent programmes. As his antisocial behavior deepens, he also takes on a new imaginary friend, Sergeant John Cluster who will teach him how to realize his new dream of being a great soldier.Cast
- Fergus Riordan as Alex
- Ben Temple as Astronaut Captain Harry / Sergeant John Cluster
- Andrew Tarbet as Father
- Jo Kelly as Mother
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