Highly Overrated But Still Good

Better Late Then Never

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The documentary that leaves you with many different feelings. The failure of the father with the outside world, the psychological problems, the desperation of his mother, the silence of his mother maybe the cowardly, the communication of the boys with the father was given in a beautiful flow. More lively documentary with video recordings used in the past. Throughout the film you are watching with a lot of questions and emptiness. There is a lot of information, especially about his brothers, but his sister's world is not mentioned. 84 minutes is less, you think "but then" when the movie is over

I don't really like of how everything layout when it seem everything to be bland in into one. Telling the plot without showing it isn't much of knowing what is there. And I don't really like how much this shown us of how poorly setup and not enough timing in it. Almost like as if none of it has been script I guess it have many retake just to get one scene. They rather make a reality show then making a movie.Why I say it have to be reality show then being a movie: All of this showing what they do in their life and places they first went seem like a reality shows. About them making copy of the movies into real like is kinda like drama reality. Sad story about who they are. Video of them and camera view of where they are at, all of this seem like reality show then a documentary movie. The more I watch this, the more that it seem fake to me. I try to force myself saying that it is real but my heart keep on telling me that it is fake. I heard story, read books, and even look it up trying to make myself seeing this a real life documentary but how they set this movie up make it seem more like a reality show vs being a documentary.

A disappointing mess. That's the kindest way to describe this movie. As the credits rolled, murmurs throughout the theater told me I wasn't the only one feeling the same way. The movie was a misfire on two main levels. The subject matter was tough, no doubt about it. Partway into the movie, we finally meet the father (term used loosely, even in its lower case form), a man (once again, term used loosely) who is an absolute failure. Not because of circumstances or bad luck, but because of himself. Sadly, his delusional shortcomings affected his whole family. Any parent will have a tough time watching this movie, seeing the damage he did. However, I knew that going in, having read some background details about this family. As an aside, the kids themselves seemed amazingly normal in spite of their isolated upbringing. The second aspect that ruined this movie was the storytelling. Subject matter aside, it just wasn't presented very well. The story was all over the place. A few captions with dates would have helped with the timeline. Much of the footage used was very repetitious. An outsider's perspective would have helped, too, even if something as simple as an interview with a neighbor, for example. Lots of seemingly important milestones were shown, but with hardly a word of explanation or anybody's reaction. There was no real ending, it sort of stopped at what may have been an important scene. The family's situation made for a very compelling story, yet so much was lost translating it to the big screen. A prologue would have been a nice touch, but that didn't happen, either. This is one of the few movies I wouldn't recommend at all. Your mileage may vary, but don't get your hopes up too much.

The Angulo family live in an apartment in New York's Lower East Side. Including the mother and father, there are nine of them. The boys spend considerable time re-enacting the contents of their favourite movies using home-made props and make-up. They are obsessed with movies in actual fact. But this can possibly be explained on account of the fact that these boys have more or less remained indoors their whole lives. Their domineering father being the primary reason this decision has been enforced, although the mother seems quite happy with the idea also. The boys seem okay with this situation, which from the outside seems incredibly unnatural and absurd. The boys existence makes me think of the life of a house cat; a type of feline that has been brought up and conditioned to stay indoors, such that it knows no different way of living, despite the fact that such an existence goes completely against the natural way of this type of animal. When its human beings submitting to this sort of thing though, it starts to seem more than a little bit strange.The Wolfpack certainly has an unusual story to tell. For this reason I was somewhat disappointed with the film. While there is considerable interview material, for some reason there isn't all that much insight and I came away still being none the wiser about how this situation arose and was maintained for so many years. It's about people cut off from society through choice, yet you have to wonder how the social services could have allowed it. Children will go along with things because they know no different, unaware of what damage may be being done. I can't help think that these boys have been deprived of a considerable amount that they may come to fully realise in later life and their mother and father consequently seem unfit parents. The father in particular did not come out of this very well, his position was he was protesting against the system by choosing to not work and instead laze around at home drinking alcohol and watching TV. I wasn't very convinced by this stance. The boys seem surprisingly balanced considering their restrictive upbringing but I never even got a sense of what they felt when they finally emerged outside. So while the source material here is certainly of some interest, I can't say I thought too much of the execution and I left somewhat underwhelmed.