Compacted trash

I can never really tell people that “Voor een Verloren Soldaat” is one of my favorite movies. I have watched a lot of movies dealing with that subject matter. Verloren is special because it has heart. The movie is different than the book and I’m not sure why. In the book, Rudi van Dantzig (the author) describes being molested. In the movie, the soldier is played by an attractive young man and it is turned into a love story. The movie was made with Dantzig’s participation and so I assume it was endorsed by him. It was his childhood.

Maybe there is a message behind that. The book is a statement of what happened to him. It’s not an attempt to make sense of anything. In the third part of the book, it’s clear that Jeroen (Rudi) is left with a lot of confusion and trauma from his memories. The movie attempts to give meaning to his experience, but it reinterprets everything to do so. It’s a reconstruction of a fractured childhood into a fairytale narrative. He and the soldier love each other, they part, and find each other in the end.

Well there goes an afternoon lol, still had a blast making it so hope y'all will get a kick out of the cringe and my first pixel art attempt.

Well there goes an afternoon lol, still had a blast making it so hope y'all will get a kick out of the cringe and my first pixel art attempt.