Coyote Cinema: Wrinkle in Time (spoilers)
I went into this movie wanting to like it. And I put in some effort, but at first it felt like it wasn't willing to meet me halfway. The first part of the movie, after some nice work technically setting up Meg's character, consisted of a lot of the rough equivalent of minding a four year old child at Nieman-Marcus. Tug tug tug. "LOOK AT THIS!" Tug tug tug. "LOOK AT THIS!" And each of these shots was visually spectacular, but if you stack up sixteen or eighteen spectacular shots in a row with no real sense of meaning to them, they still all tend to blur together. The introduction of the Trinity and of Calvin showed the same sort of rushed good will. We were told we should like them, but not why.
And then we got to Camazotz. The scene with the instant forest was harrowing and I was actually concerned. There started being actual emotional stakes. They seemed kind of hand-wavey about Charles Wallace's conversion, but I give the actor props--he had a lot of weight to carry, especially as a child actor, and he toted that barge. And at the end, when you can't find Dad or Calvin, relax. They already tessered home or something. Which reminds me. For a place you theoretically can't tesser to, Camazotz really ought to set up a Tesseract Station for new arrivals. I had to Google the Miranda quote, but it amused me.
Four wags, with an opening night ticket.
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And then we got to Camazotz. The scene with the instant forest was harrowing and I was actually concerned. There started being actual emotional stakes. They seemed kind of hand-wavey about Charles Wallace's conversion, but I give the actor props--he had a lot of weight to carry, especially as a child actor, and he toted that barge. And at the end, when you can't find Dad or Calvin, relax. They already tessered home or something. Which reminds me. For a place you theoretically can't tesser to, Camazotz really ought to set up a Tesseract Station for new arrivals. I had to Google the Miranda quote, but it amused me.
Four wags, with an opening night ticket.
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