Where Is My Friend's House? (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #30.1 extract: Where Is My Friend's House/Home? (1987)

Where Is My Friend's House is a beautifully simplistic film that follows a boy who accidentally takes his friend's homework book home and so has to return it to him before the next day when his friend may be expelled. The only problem is, he not sure exactly where his friend lives. 

This is a mini-adventure of sorts as well as a coming-of-age story that comments on education and discipline. In such, whilst many figures - parents, teachers, elders - attempt to instil their ideas into our protagonist, they all seem to fail to recognise his maturity and sense of responsibility. He then ends up demonstrating a sense of community and compassion that everyone is trying to lecture and teach into him, but only via their hindrance. This leaves this film to be an allegory about the seeming naivety of adults and elders as well as the persistence of a true small-time hero and the prevalence of traditional valiant traits.