This essay discusses the notions of encounter, composition and anomalous function, as described by Deleuze and Guattari (2002). It reflects upon singular children, children-events, when, in a movie, they come upon a destabilizing power, expressed by the figure of the pariah. Its analyses of Chaplin's The kid (1921) and Truffaut's L'enfant sauvage (1970) show how movie analyses weave concepts. As for the image of children, such concepts allow us to think that it is irrelevant to inquire what is best or worst, in what stage it is, whether or not it is faithful to an (educational? sociological? psychological?) model of children. Interesting here is to find out what is new in the encounters between John and The Tramp, and Victor and Itard. What singularities do they produced? Such questions guide our analyses.
Child; Movie anomalous; Composition