Stats Time!

 Thanks to my blog colegas, Skykid and Ikarus, I decided to try a whole new thing and let you know the secrets of the heart of my blog statistics. As you can see, you are not alone watching this blog, and it´s not bAd figures I think. This special friendship is purely based on our mutual interest in coming of age films, an interest that now is out of hand and has almost become an addiction or like a big bang love of my life. And some days with unusually good statistics I feel like the king of the hill, and this is all thanks to you, my readers, and you I love! To hope for much more comments is unfortunately like looking for miracles as it seems. But the most important thing is of course the genuine interest in the coming of age films, and I know that you stand by me in sharing this interest. But when I started this blog it was at first like an innocent experiment, and I had about 10 visitors a day, and now you don´t know how far it can go. Nobody knows. And I would like to thank everyone who leaves me comments, you´re my hero! In your absence blogging would be a bit boring. And I must also thank all the talented kids, both local boys from Europe like Danish Anton, French Jacquot, English Oliver Twist, Dutch de Witte van Sichem, Italian Acla, the German brothers Max and Moritz, and the boy who is living on the island of Bird street, as well as all the boys from other parts of the world, like the boy of Baghdad, the boy from Lebanon, the gypsy boy Mondo, Australian Fatty Finn, Maroccian boy Ali Zaoua, Joe the King, Robby, Philippinian Maximo Oliveros and the Brazilian street kid Pixote, for your excellent performances in all the good and sometimes crazy films. Many of you almost look as you would like to say : put the camera on me! You are natural talents, that make the audience glued to the screens. If I have forgotten to mention someone you may punish me. The themes in the films are of course coming of age, but there are very varied stories, some are about innocent voices that are abandoned by there parents, friends or society in general. Some are about adventures in the Amazon, on Grasshopper island, in the Russian Koktebel, or in American Rock Haven. Some are about street kids in Bombay or in Italy like Vito and the others, some even living in a greenhouse. These films are often about boys without destiny that are actually fateless. Some films are focusing more on the father and son relationship or other family problems you can encounter when you´re 15 or 12 and holding and when the heart is deceitful above all things. Ivan´s childhood is a story about children during wartime. He is the child I never was. Some films are blue, some are for a lost soldier coming with a flavor of corn. So which of all these films are the best? Even if I used the Swedish expression ole dole doff, I couldn´t say. And there are so many, and new ones are coming up all the time, so follow you follow me and you will be updated with new film reviews in this blog!

So here are the statistics!