'The WolfPack'

'The WolfPack'

I highly anticipated director Crystal Moselle's documentary 'The WolfPack'. It surrounds the life of a six boys (they did have a sister but she was absent in the film) who's lives all they did was live, breathe films (like myself) accept they never left the house. Their father who I believe was Hare Krishna and named them after the people in their book. It was so funny and fantastically smart the portrayal of the boys was so close to their truth you saw many home videos of them and their amazing costumes they made from cereal boxes and made props also. You saw them recreating many scenes from films and all eating dinner together which was one of my favourite scenes when they were watching 'Blue Velvet' eating spaghetti.






Throughout the film you saw how dark it got for the boys though, they weren't aloud out the house caged in like actual wolfs. They were just given films for entertainment not experiencing real teenage or childhood experiences. The eldest of the brothers was really heartbreaking to watch, he broke down and described his life so far and how he resents his father for what he did and how he got depressed and escaped from their apartment they lived in the whole of their lives in lower East side New York.

There is one scene also that is super funny but terribly sad at the same time how since the brothers have been exploring life out of their apartment recently that they have experienced slang, new words and just finding out what 'Google' is and how many people use the word 'like' within everything they say.

I don't want to give too much away as you should watch it for yourself, but the pure luck of Moselle just seeing the boys dressed up recreating scenes in the street and then entering their life really changed their lives for the better as some of them now have jobs within the film industry and are experiencing life to the fullest while enjoying films still together.