Himes's texts are, in the end, the bald, clumsy, and insightful attempts of a boy not to pay for his desire with shame.
Simply written and filled with details of family life, crops, housing and schools, and especially of the insightful teachers who encouraged the boy.
In I Am the Future Boy, a roving, insightful piece about intergenerational tensions, his thread inevitably leads to the act of writing, the impulse of the artist to reveal himself whatever the personal cost – to himself or, less heroically, those around him.
The maternal instinct keeps short-circuiting in "The Dead Eye Boy," Angus Mac Lachlan's grim, insightful portrait of an unmoored family, now in its New York premiere at the MCC Theater.
Despite the constant presence of news footage from the same area, Top Boy managed to feel realistic and insightful.
"About a Boy" is a funny book, but it's also a heartfelt and insightful story about a self-involved man, played in the film by Hugh Grant, who is drawn out of his isolation when he helps a 12-year-old boy.
Director Rob Reiner (again!) wisely focuses on the things that fascinate boys on the cusp of teen-hood, which makes his film insightful, resonant, and touching.
When Will spurns the advances of Hollywood superstar Anna Julia Robertss, "just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her"), slobby Spike talks sense into him with his insightful verdict: "You daft prick".
They are much more at ease with open-endedness, ambivalence, ambiguity and paradox; more nuanced, emotionally honest and insightful, especially about the emotional dimension of literary characters, and see life more holistically than boys.
