The scene adaption of Tom Perotta’s novel ‘little children’ contains a highly talented cast with the photographic finesse of equally talented director Tom Field’s to be the visual storyteller to audiences.

The aspect of family is important in this neighborhood, whilst (Winslet) Sarah plays a unsatisfied unappreciated housewife, non conformist from the other step ford-like wives in her Boston neighborhood. Catching her husband, masturbating to his online dream girl, Sarah decides to start getting the affections of Brad (Wilson), a clearly emasculated young father, continuously failing to pass the bar in law school. The two are drawn to continue the affair for different needs, Brads need for independence and male acceptance, and Sarah’s need for attention and love.

Most of the Film involves a narration of events and descriptions of things the audience should know.
The voice of the narrator influences the viewer to believe some sort of character analysis is occurring, and involves the viewer into the lives of the characters. The cinematography is a scarily accurate depiction of American suburbia, with soccer moms and affluent parents looking after their children.

The direction was clever and varied from each subject that was focused, either the sport scenes, the sex scenes were sure to make the appearance of total nudity, and not partial. The scenes with the children are innocent but safe. Only when the director takes the viewers into the pool scene with the pedophile, does this panic rise.

The editing is clean, with some scenes being total walk through with only one take, and makes the experience feel so much more realistic.

Most memorable scene:
Ronnie breaking the collection of figurines, and eventually castrated himself.

I felt conflicted in whom to sympathize with in this film, the villains and heroes aren’t clear cut, whether this is deliberate or not I don’t know. The relationship of the pedophile Ronnie with his mother raised some questions about the way Ronnie was raised as being a ‘good boy’ and his guilt could’ve manifested itself in an obsession. This film shows that each person makes mistakes, whether their children are involved or not. The scenes which were brilliantly lighted in the playground at night, which made a great point about where each of the characters mindset, and situation was headed. The playground at night could mean dangerous territory. There are many observations to be made in this great masterpiece of a film.

May McGorvey: You're a miracle, Ronnie. We're all miracles. Know why? Because as humans, every day we go about our business, and all that time we know... we all know... that the things we love... the people we love, at any time now can all be taken away. We live knowing that and we keep going anyway. Animals don't do that.

There are many observations and interpretations to be made in such a rich display of suburbia.