A Journey of Identity and Courage: Reviewing Invisible Boys
The movie Invisible Boys moves us through a group of boys growing up homosexual in the Gotera of Western Australia. The plot revolves round an underground teenage homosexual guy who embarks on an affair with a married man, whose ramifications affects several people. Viewed against the backdrop of the 2017 same Sex Marriage Plebiscite, the series captures the reality and struggles of small town sociology and the oppressiveness of societal pressure individual young souls. The ethos of the piece revolves around boys’ discovering themselves identity in the environment that enshrouds them with prejudice and contempt as they struggle for acceptance of themselves and from others. The mood is a combination of optimism and anxiety, a raw emotion confined within existential masks. Acknowledges the heavy emotions at play while also showing friendship and perking up in the last couple of scenes for hope for the characters.
Joseph, Aydan, and the ensemble offer realistic portrayals of the struggles of growing up and finding oneself while navigating homosexuality. The actors do an excellent job of making the audience understand the lives of these teenagers, both the struggles and achievements, and this adds a realist feel to the show which makes it enjoyable and informative.
The director, Nicholas Verso has done a good job in ensuring that the show portrays the issues of queers in an appropriate manner. His vision, based on the logic of emotions, opens the viewers real events connected with the process of identity search and developing the relationships in harsh conditions. The environment captures the essence of the boys and helps transport one into the world portrayed in this show. It underlines the thematic significance of the series and the emotional plot of the narrative within each shot.
The depicted setting is pretty close to a real-life small town, and all the details are thought out carefully. This increases the sensibility of the boys’ position and their problems and seems like real-life situations to the audience. The practical and location-based scenes more focus on the aspects of storytelling and character building unlike in the case of the series, where action-oriented scenes play a major role.
The pacing of the film is very good and each episode interlinks well to build a story that is strong and fluid despite many twists that interconnect different arcs. Please and transitions are well thought out and do well to help keep viewer’s attention glued to the next scene that depicts the human drama.
Visualization is slow, portraying dramatic arcs in the lives of people, and makes sure that the audience is fully absorbed in the turmoil of developing characters.
The script is filled with relevant dialogues that are rich and powerful for the best emotional impact. Realism in the conversational interactions improves the dynamics of the drama and brings the audience closer to the boys’ experiences and struggles within them- In ‘Invisible Boys’ aspects of the film may be convincingly dramatic to a certain extent. There are some characters with pretty complex backstories but their subplots could have been expanded more for an added element of development to the character arcs.Some parts of the story contains slow and fast pacing which may somewhat affect the steady pacing of the story. It can be discussed that the movie examines the values of friendship and courage, combining touchy sentimentality and decisiveness, which affects the audience for a long time.
