I love the movie Dream Boy (2008) by James Bolton, based on
the novel of the same name by Jim Grimsley. However, the editing made the movie
confusing at times; particularly when compared to the book. The editing was
messy at times and didn't follow the story of the book. First of all, there
were small errors in continuity. In a few consecutive scenes (14:22-), the main
character, Nathan, is wearing the same clothes he wore in the morning on the
bus of that day and throughout most of the day at school, but in a scene in the
middle of the school day and when riding the bus home from school he is wearing
different clothes, along with his friend. This was probably meant to show the
passage of time, but the change of clothes only came sporadically and the rest
of the scenes showed no indication of a movement in time. It seemed like an
attempted to cut between the first day of school and another day at school, but
in the book and in the flow of the movie all of those scenes were supposed to
be the same day. Also with regard to those clothes, the second set of clothes
was the clothes he wore in the first scene of the movie when he is going
through his first day of school. So if there was a movement in time, it was a backward
movement; even though the scenes before showed a direct movement forward in
time. Overall, they wearing the wrong clothes in a few particular scenes. In one
day they cut between the end of the day when he is at home and eating dinner
and his friend is at church and then cut to that same day when he is on the bus
heading home from school. They should have put that last scene in with the
other after school bus shoots (5:04-7:42). Sorr if I’m all over the place, but
that’s how this movie is: all over the place. My last comment is that some scenes
weren’t in the book like at 52:55. You can tell this movie did not have a huge
budget.
