A Monster Calls

Hey! Spoilers!

OK, not loving this so far… The colour grading isn’t overpowering, but they’ve grayified a lot (except certain colours), and there’s shakycam. Which I just loathe.

OK, we’ve got a sad kid who gets bullied… so is he gonna go all Harry Potter all of a sudden?

Oh, it’s Liam!

Oh yeah! That’s why I bought this bluray — it has Sigourney Weaver. I was starting to wonder how I ended up with this…

Nice decor. I mean, I mean it — if they hadn’t colour graded this into sadness, it would be a comfy kitchen.

They found the one child actor in the UK that looks like a jaundiced 40s child. Which is confusing, since it’s contemporary (I think). Nobody’s got a mobile phone… perhaps it’s meant to be set in the 90s? (They have a DVD player.)

Stern! Very stern!

So Liam Neeson plays an ent?

Oh, there’s animated bits, too.

I like the style. It’s very computerish, but somebody has apparently invented an algorithm to make everything seem all watercolourley. It’s pretty.

But it looks like we’re going to get Liam Treeson telling the poor kid three of these fairytales? And I hate fairytales sooo much.

Oh god

This is very confusing. She’s got thick, luscious hair, but cropped short. So her mother is trying to get her to wear wigs!? But why? This isn’t how cancer treatments work — chemo doesn’t result in having shorter, luscious hair!

Did she just refuse to shave her head for this role? Which I can totally understand, if so.