December Boys

"Just remember Misty, no matter what, you're still a December Boy" - Maps

Film: December Boys

Language: English

Genre: Drama, Romance

I feel the need to write a 1000 word essay for this film. December Boys is the type of movie that would be played in high school classrooms for English or Literature.  Just as “Look Both Ways”, December Boys is an Australian movie brilliantly illustrating the vast beauty of our coastal shores. The power of religion, hope, ambition, family and delinquency is explored throughout the film with warm hearted characters, each have gone through despair and anguish. I particularly enjoyed Daniel Radcliffe’s acting in December Boys. Instead of constantly referring him as the iconic Harry Potter, I wish to respect him more as an actor in other various roles such as the unlikely lieutenant hero in “My Boy Jack”. Here in December Boys, he plays “Maps” raised in a Catholic all boys orphanage with daily strict routines. It is when night, he breaks the rules along with the other boys by smoking, drinking and examining pornographic images. He befriends an adventurous girl named Lucy and she begins to relieve his inexperience’s in lust and like. Displaying a cute shy smile being around a girl for the first time, Radcliffe as Maps was charming. I believe that the book and film should be studied in Australian High Schools! There are so many prompts brewing in my head right now.