We have to talk about these unbearable childish characters in cinema

Often, children in movies, it’s cute, inspiring, makes you want to be happy. Dear Totò inside Paradise cinemabeaming Abigail inside Little Miss Sunshineupsetting Michael tomboy : I’m sorry, but it’s not you we’re going to talk about today.

Instead, we’ll attack your evil doubles: those imaginary brats like that unbearable that we deserve Super Nanny to comfort us for being able to watch the movie to the end. Here are the the most annoying kids in the cinema, selected with a generous dose of bad faith.

“The child” in Vivarium

In short, look Vivariumis the guarantee to pass a very bad time. The script is terribly slow, the actors don’t believe it for a second, and the final twist makes you want to ask for a refund even if we saw it on TV. Yet, among all that is wrong with this rotten film, there is one element that prevails over the others embarrassing : the child.

Half child, half alienthis fanatic howls whenever he wants something and doesn’t stop until you serve him. During breakfast he makes a deafening scream until milk has been added to the cereal and the spoon is in his hand. Another subtlety: the alien side of him gives him the ability imitate perfectly all the sounds he hears… practical when you know your favorite activity is spying on his parents at night.

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The twins in Little mom

You may not know but Little mom, this is Céline Sciamma’s latest film. Only, it is also the best soft, sad and gray we saw in 2021. At the heart of this family drama where not much happens, are Nelly and Manon, two little girls so extinct that they seem to have been born from a night of love between two dementors.

In this film where it rains constantly and where adults have deserted, the girls do what they can to keep themselves busy. They spend most of their time wearing ugly winter sweaters it’s at take a walk around the house dead grandmothers. Warning: there is also a time when sketch a smile (because they bake pancakes and spill some – really climax of the film). Of course, behind all this, there is a metaphor of transmission, motherhood and depression. But we still feel immense pain for these girls, 52 years old.

Dilili to Dilili in Paris

If this article was called Top 1 of the most unbearable children Dilili would be the Chosen One. If you don’t know her, Much better. And should it still be presented: Dilili is the heroine of Michel Ocelot’s latest film, Dili in Paris, a racist pamphlet and Islamophobe released in 2019, which we absolutely do not recommend.

Everything is catastrophic in the character, who concentrates all that is wrong in this super problematic movie. The 78-year-old director imagined an orphan from Kanak, who arrived in metropolitan France ” voluntarily ”to“ work ”in a human zoo. According to Michel Ocelot, slavery was a job, “chosen” by the colonized, including children.

During 95 endless minutes, Dilili speaks the least natural French in the world, many relationships and a strong vocabulary worthy of the Comédie-Française. When he meets a new person (which happens every five minutes), he repeats the same refrain in his high-pitched voice: “My name is Dilili, I’m happy to meet you. “ Quick, this sentence makes you the same effect as the drop of water in the torture of the drop of water.

Of course, Dilili is annoying. But, more seriously, it is above all a sign that it is urgent to stop to exploit children’s characters to spread deeply racist theories under the pretext of “innocence”.

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