Martian Child

Last night, for my best friend's birthday, she, her friend, and I went to see Martian Child, which I had never heard of before, but a synopsis of which I got in the car ride to Paseo Colorado. Unfortunately, we hadn't planned our evening carefully enough, and, by the time dinner was over, the film had been playing for a half an hour. Ten minutes later, we walked into the theatre and took our seats in the third row.
My friend, Gracie, had been planning on meeting one of her friends at the theatre, and indeed, Conor (a girl) was there with four other friends.

[Right now I'm about to delve into explanation of one of my friends, and one of her friends. If you really have no interest in reading this, and merely want to see what I have to say about Martian Child, just skip the next few paragraphs.]

Now, before I continue on to the main point of this blog post, I would like to point out one thing. Gracie and I have been best friends since 5th grade, when we, although attending opposite elementary schools (in my school district, there are two, and they've always been rivals), we met at a Catechism class that our parents were forcing us to attend every Tuesday after school at a local church. At the moment, she is attending LACHSA, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, while I am stuck at a lowly unified high school in my hometown (that town I will not disclose, for my own reasons, even though it's one of the top rannked school districts in the state of California, probably due to the wealth and high majority of Asians).

Her friend, that I mentioned a little while ago is called Valentina; I met her last night, although on several occasions, I had seen her at the middle school in my city when we were both still attending there. Valentina now goes to LACHSA with Gracie.

Back to my story.

Martian Child is an amazing story. It follows a science fiction writer David Gordon (John Cusack) and his attempt to adopt as a son a six year old who thinks he's from Mars. That six year old, Dennis (Bobby Coleman), was abandoned as a child, left to die on the streets, living only in a carboard box. To try and fend off the pain that he feels all the time, Dennis fabricates a story that he completely believes and trusts in - that he is from Mars, and it is his mission to learn about humans before going back to his home planet.

This film was brilliantly written and filmed... what more is there to say? Well, that it made me cry, which was slightly embarrassing because I was meeting some of Gracie's friends for the first time.

For anyone who loves a beautiful story, this is a must-see