Correcting behavior without condemning feeling, listening to and accepting
fears and worries without taking charge in an overprotective way, allowing free rein to the
developing need for freedom while at the same time holding fast to the limits appropriate to his age — these are the continuing bases
of parent - child
intimacy.
Here Heineman serves as his own cameraman, and the
intimacy he
developed with the subjects enabled him to capture the wrenching nature
of the situation, to be there when they admit «a state
of fear has started to spread among us.»