This film is a tragical comedy, a sensitive film with a few brilliant actors, an interesting atmosphere and a story which can touch everyone who sees this movie, even if there are still some more intense movies about the concentration camps and the World Wars.

Why did I just give a 5 star vote and not about 8 points? I would like to explain you. I'm a person who is very interested in history, who is studying in history, I'm German and I have already visited a concentration camp and I know people who were implicated in this whole story during the Nazi regime. The life in the concentration camps was like hell or even heavier than this and anyone can imagine how life has been in there. If you walk through the walls of such a camps and take a look at the photos of the piles of skinny bodies and you turn around and realise that you stay on the same ground were the most horrible genocide ever had taken place, you just want to cry or scream or whatever. And I think that this movie doesn't show the reality, gives strangers a very wrong impression of what could have been these concentration camps. It's showing the camps as if there were just a few Jewish guys living in a very small room and doing some forced work under the guidance of some military guys. The film doesn't show that those people were extremely abused, had so much hunger and pain and such a lack of place and medical help that they were all rather dead than alive, that they were treated as you would not even treat the ugliest animal. A child would have never survived this hell and would have never had the chance to believe the positive lies of his father. The movie is a nice story, but historically wrong, not realistic, not sensitive and heavy enough to let its viewers take a look at a situation within a concentration camp. Some people may think after watching that movie that, after all, the situation wasn't that bad in such a camp and that there was still optimism, positive feelings and that a little boy would have survived in such a place. Sadly, this isn't true. And I think it is very critical to show the past circumstences to concerned people who have lived this hell or also to those who doesn't know much about it in such a way that the movie does even if this is for some artistic reasons.

That's why I wasn't very happy about this whole movie, its success and its excellent reputation, but rather upset about such an interpretation of history. And though the acting is great and touching, I can't give more than a five stars rating. Believe me, visiting such a camp may touch you way more than this movie... If you'd like to see a movie about the whole situation in a more realistic way, go for "The pianist", that's "hard" stuff...

Social critic showing the melancholic misery of a poor young black entrepreneur and his sweet son - well, this cliché is nothing new as we take a look at the number of brilliant novels or movies that have been made around and about this topic.

Will Smith tries to wash away his vocation of a funny comedian or hero in some silly action movies or rap video clips and wants absolutely to do a serious, intellectual movie. Well, he should have stayed in the genre where he is brilliant and where he has made so many fans. This movie is worth a discussion about society and maybe interesting for some politicians or populists who dislike some things of the so-called American Dream. If you want to be entertained, you will be disappointed, because the movie has a very slow development, a very depressive and sad atmosphere, a story full of clichés without any surprises and everything is focused on the acting of Will Smith, while all other actors stay superficial. Will Smith is doing an unexpected, but very well job, but the problem is that the movie is too focused on the bad things about life, too straight in one direction, too closed-minded, too old-fashioned, too slow and boring and without any surprises.

If you like this kind of depressive atmosphere and want to get inspired for the creation of a better world, this one could be interesting for you. If you want to share a movie with your friends, get entertained or amused, forget about it.

If you like this one, go also for the Quebecker movie "L'âge des ténèbres". If you don't like it, but you're interested in a similar story, go for the classic "A raisin in the sun".

This movie is well described with one word: "depression". The whole atmosphere of the film is just depressive, melancholic, sadistic, boring and senseless. Everything is grey, everyone is unhappy, everything is going wrong. Concerning the atmosphere, the director and main actor did a great job, without any doubt, but who wants to see a movie that shows just a negative sense of the life and a pseudo-critical family or society portrait? You have not any fun by watching this movie, but if you want to feel down and depressive, go for it, but watch it alone, because it could destroy the atmosphere of a movie night with some friends.

Well, first of all, I would like to tell you that I am really interested in history, especially the North American History. I'm a history and geographic teacher and I'm also learning innu-aimun and watch Inuit movies. When I read about this movie, I was kind of happy because this could have been my kind of film. Well, it wasn't it at all.

The movie shows a lot of beautiful landscapes, offers some interesting costumes and historical stuff. The movie is like a documentary or a walk through a museum. But there is nothing that happens! The development of the story is very slow and there is no point of acceleration anywhere in the movie. There are almost no dialogues, instead of trying to develop the characters or to create an interesting story about a forbidden romance, the director prefers to show us some birds and trees. I don't get any approach to the characters and their story which should be the core of this movie. When I was watching this first I've almost fallen asleep many times, I was wachting the clock like very five minutes, but I'm a tough guy, so I wanted to finish the movie and hoped for an interesting ending, but it was all in vain. It's just a boring documentary without a real story, without interesting acting, without surprising elements in the story... just avoid to watch this! If you like the general topic of the movie, go ahead for "Nouvelle-France" or "The last of the Mohicans", but not for this one...