Classics not only for children

A bag falls from the sky, inside: MILLIONS (Danny Boyle, GB 2004, March 7 & 8). What appears as a sudden fairy tale in the orderly settlement of new residential buildings in Liverpool, where Damian, his brother Anthony and their father live after the death of the mother, turns out to be the continuation of fantasy with capitalistic means. For Damian's world is already populated by fantastic heroes – saints. That's why Anthony calls him a weirdo and endorses soberly investing the millions. Damian, on the other hand, wants to act like his holy role models and distribute the money among the poor: a field study is to reveal who is needy in the neighborhood. Boyle creates poetic and whimsical images that tell of the belief in fantasy, not without satirical interludes.