We the Animals

9/16/2019

**_A poignant and poetic evocation of childhood_** > _We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful - little animals, clawing at what we needed._ - Justin Torres; _We the Animals_ (2011) A remarkably contained and intimate story featuring only five main cast members and around ten locations, _We the Animals_ is about a young boy awakening to the fact that he's homosexual. Equal parts disassociated lyricism and warts-and-all grittiness, in attempting to untangle the struggles concomitant with his burgeoning queerness, the film looks at issues such as the ever-increasing distance between himself and two brothers with whom he was once so close, the dawning realisation that although his parents love each other, so too are they destroying one another, and the fact that th