“I think he’s done the bravest thing anyone could do,” director Alma Har’el told the Wrap. He takes on the heady task of inhabiting the role of his father as he hits the child version of himself, berates him, forgets about him, screams at him, isolates him from his other relationships, fills him with fear, and, eventually, is left with nearly nothing. The other story - arguably more interesting if only because we, as viewers, have an insatiable need to know every detail about a famous person’s life - is about Shia LaBeouf himself, who wrote and stars in the largely autobiographical Honey Boy. “You wouldn’t be here if I didn’t pay you,” Otis replies.
In one particularly gutting scene, 12-year-old Otis (Noah Jupe) is asked by his father, James (Shia LaBeouf), if he understands how it feels to be paid by his son. As the boy grows up and becomes famous, he is crippled by his childhood trauma, only to become destructive, angry, and lost. The first is the story - about a young boy trying to make it as an actor while living in a motel with his emotionally and physically abusive father who struggles with sobriety. There are two distinct reasons why Honey Boy, out this week, is both a powerful and deeply painful film to watch.
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