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Strength Of Choosing Children In Film

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The strength of choosing children as the main actor in a film, is the stages a child goes through trying to make sense of their surrounding, this allows the audience to also journey with a child in the process of trying to understand the plot. The stages starts from not knowing, being innocent and later becoming much more aware of their environment through observation. For example in the film 'The Year My Parents Went on Vacation' Mauro was confused as why his parents dropped him off to stay with his grandfather and when asked of their return, they were unable to respond confidently. As the plot develops we can see that Mauro struggles to gain an understanding of his new environment and as he becomes a bit more aware of the political war

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