Boy A trailer - if you watch the trailer, you might as well skip the film
I noticed this a couple of months ago and I’m still pissed off about it. I thought of it again while listening to a /film podcast rant on overly revealing trailers. The trailer for Boy A (2008, John Crowley) is absolutely terrible! It gives the entire film away and that’s a real shame because one of the best things about this movie is the way that the backstory unfolds.
John Crowley did a great job of telling this story. You meet the character, and just as it often is in real life, you slowly begin to learn about who they are and how they came to be that way. I saw this film at TIFF last year (and of course have not mentioned it until now, almost a year later) and it was one of my favourites. The storytelling is very sensitive and Andrew Garfield’s performance is really something to remember.
Check the film out (it was in limited release as of 23 July, 2008) but if you are just interested in the story, you might as well check out the ridiculously revealing trailer below.
p.s. When looking for a movie poster to include in this post, I found one that gives a lot away, too! Why didn’t The Weinstein Company let this film tell the story itself?
