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“Joe the King” is one of the most unrelentingly bleak film I’ve ever watched. The sadness that poor Joe entails makes me feel very sorry for him. The movie is about a little boy who is growing up and attempting to survive in a world without love. Nothing goes right for Joe either. He lives in a dysfunctional family, his father is an alcoholic, he has an overworked mother who is hardly home, and a brother, Mike, who is slightly older then Joe; Joe is a kleptomaniac himself. Every adult Joe meets is either abusive towards him or lets him down in some way or another. Joe develops a mask that occasionally cracks when he reveals feelings of defiance or fear. His life is riddled with responsibilities: school, which he doesn't care about, an illegal job as a dishwasher, which he needs because of his father’s continuous unemployment, and worst of all, the wretchedness of his home life. I think the movie “Joe the king” shows what happens when a society lives without love, and how the pressures of the world can destroy a household. When the parents of Joe got married they “loved” each other