Bath... Lesbians... Lesbians in a bath... Wait, the humour's coming... Genre: Fantasy Crime Drama Romance Thriller (UK, Germany, New Zealand) Starring: Kate Winslet ( Finding Neverland ; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ), Melanie Lynskey (Detroit Rock City; Coyote Ugly) Directed By: Peter Jackson ( Meet The Feebles ; Lord of the Rings) Overview: When the parents of a couple of inseparable friends decide to split them up, they come up with their own plan to stay together. Based on the true events of the lives of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker. Performance: Kate Winslet plays an overdramatic prissy little queen. I'm sure this is exactly the way the character was, so I suppose she played the part perfectly. Melanie Lynskey plays this angst-riddled chubby brooding girl overzealously, but again I'm sure the actress did exactly what Jackson told them to do. I blame him for these two. All the secondary characters were really well played, it's too bad the story was about...
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Heavenly Creatures
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Directors: Peter Jackson,
Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay) and, Peter Jackson (screenplay),
Release: 14 October 1994 (New Zealand)
Tagline: The true story of a crime that shocked a nation.
Plot: Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
Cast: Melanie Lynskey - Pauline Parker, Kate Winslet - Juliet Hulme, Sarah Peirse - Honora Parker Rieper, Diana Kent - Hilda Hulme, Clive Merrison - Dr. Henry Hulme, Simon O'Connor - Herbert Rieper, Jed Brophy - John / Nicholas, Peter Elliott - Bill Perry, Gilbert Goldie - Dr. Bennett, Geoffrey Heath - Rev. Norris, Kirsti Ferry - Wendy, Ben Skjellerup - Jonathan Hulme, Darien Takle - Miss Stewart, Elizabeth Moody - Miss Waller, Liz Mullane - Mrs. Collins
Runtime: 99 min | USA:108 min (uncut version)
Country: UK
Language: English
Company: Fontana Productions
Links: IMDb Profile
Categories: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay) and, Peter Jackson (screenplay),
Release: 14 October 1994 (New Zealand)
Tagline: The true story of a crime that shocked a nation.
Plot: Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
Cast: Melanie Lynskey - Pauline Parker, Kate Winslet - Juliet Hulme, Sarah Peirse - Honora Parker Rieper, Diana Kent - Hilda Hulme, Clive Merrison - Dr. Henry Hulme, Simon O'Connor - Herbert Rieper, Jed Brophy - John / Nicholas, Peter Elliott - Bill Perry, Gilbert Goldie - Dr. Bennett, Geoffrey Heath - Rev. Norris, Kirsti Ferry - Wendy, Ben Skjellerup - Jonathan Hulme, Darien Takle - Miss Stewart, Elizabeth Moody - Miss Waller, Liz Mullane - Mrs. Collins
Runtime: 99 min | USA:108 min (uncut version)
Country: UK
Language: English
Company: Fontana Productions
Links: IMDb Profile
Categories: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Bath... Lesbians... Lesbians in a bath... Wait, the humour's coming...
Genre: Fantasy Crime Drama Romance Thriller (UK, Germany, New Zealand)
Starring: Kate Winslet (Finding Neverland; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind), Melanie Lynskey (Detroit Rock City; Coyote Ugly)
Directed By: Peter Jackson (Meet The Feebles; Lord of the Rings)
Overview: When the parents of a couple of inseparable friends decide to split them up, they come up with their own plan to stay together. Based on the true events of the lives of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker.
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Yeah it DOES look pretty cool, all 7 minutes of it
Overall Rating: 66% (Pretty Secular if You Ask Me)
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Recommendations: Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009), Requiem for a Dream, Dawn of the Dead
Bath... Lesbians... Lesbians in a bath... Wait, the humour's coming...
Genre: Fantasy Crime Drama Romance Thriller (UK, Germany, New Zealand)
Starring: Kate Winslet (Finding Neverland; Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind), Melanie Lynskey (Detroit Rock City; Coyote Ugly)
Directed By: Peter Jackson (Meet The Feebles; Lord of the Rings)
Overview: When the parents of a couple of inseparable friends decide to split them up, they come up with their own plan to stay together. Based on the true events of the lives of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker.
Performance:
Kate Winslet plays an overdramatic prissy little queen. I'm sure this is exactly the way the character was, so I suppose she played the part perfectly. Melanie Lynskey plays this angst-riddled chubby brooding girl overzealously, but again I'm sure the actress did exactly what Jackson told them to do. I blame him for these two. All the secondary characters were really well played, it's too bad the story was about people I kind of didn't care about.
Rating: 7
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Rating: 7
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The old school Peter Jackson from the days of Bad Taste and Dead Alive is still really apparent here. His shaky and not very professional camerawork is obvious from time to time and for as much as the original moments were interesting, like their fantasy world filled with all those clay people, there really weren't enough of those moments to offset the typical shot of an old house with people in it.
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Maybe it's my demographic again. The dialogue was a lot of imagination and storytelling, and the story quotes paragraphs from the real Pauline Parker Diary, which is a good enough gimmick, but I didn't find any particularly interesting lines or tales in any part of the film. Standard fare.
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Rating: 7
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The story starts with two girls running around screaming their heads off, covered in blood, and the next 90 minutes is us building up to that point, learning about a friendship between two girls rife with fantastical imaginings. It reminded me of Virgin Suicides a little, with the whole misunderstood youth against the will of their parents. I won't ruin the end, but when it came I thought, "That's it?"
Rating: 6
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Rating: 6
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For as much as Mario Lanza might be this great dreamy Italian baritone / Tenor whatever, his music is lame. The overall themes were those of fantasy but because there were not nearly enough scenes where we delved into the mystical world of these two girls, I felt let down. Jackson could have gone far more into the realm of these girls, and his film choices of late have clearly been rich in the otherworldly, but this one was severely lacking. If they'd done more, this would have been much cooler.
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Yeah it DOES look pretty cool, all 7 minutes of it
Overall Rating: 66% (Pretty Secular if You Ask Me)
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This is one of these Must See films I heard about. If you ask me, Peter Jackson, with this film, made his big break into mainstream film. If he'd have stayed with the cult gore flick, I'd have much preferred it, but I guess King Kong and Lord of the Rings is better in the end, appealing to more people. I suppose I must sacrifice knee-deep rivers of latex and blood for the greater good.
Recommendations: Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009), Requiem for a Dream, Dawn of the Dead
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PETER JACKSON’S 1994 TRUE CRIME FILM: HEAVENLY CREATURES
On June 22, 1954 the peaceful little port city of Christchurch, New Zealand was shaken to the core by the murder of one Honora Rieper in idyllic Victoria Park. The horror only grew when diary entries by Honora’s daughter Pauline Parker (Pauline used her mother’s maiden name during the subsequent trial since Honora and Herbert Rieper had never actually married, though it proved to be a minor issue scandal wise) led police to arrest her and her friend Juliet Hulme for murder. The trial and its press coverage was something of a phenomenon for the citizens of New Zealand who had not had much excitement since Sir Edmund Hillary scaled Mt. Everest a year before. The papers were rife with conjecture concerning the relationship between the two girls. Did the girls share some type of insanity? Were they lesbian lovers? That may seem trivial now, or it may not, but in 50’s New Zealand homosexuality was an indication of a severe mental disorder as well as criminal behavior. The real life Juliet Hulme, who went on to live in Scotland and write mystery novels under the name Anne Perry, has denied there was ever a lesbian relationship between herself and Pauline, who now resides in England under the name Hilary Nathan and, as a Roamn Catholic convert, devotes her life to helping handicapped children. One thing for certain was that the girls had formed over a period of a couple years deep bound that they were not about to split apart by the decisions of their families without resistance.
Peter Jackson had gained a reputation up to this point for making splatter horror/comedy films such as Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles and Braindead (Dead Alive). The movies were pretty good low budget fare that have all gone to genuine cult status but were hardly the sort of thing that would attract mainstream attention or approval. He was approached by friend and writer Fran Walsh with the concept of turning the Parker-Hulme murder story into a motion picture. Walsh had long been fascinated with the story and hoped to give the story a fact based retelling. The story had actually loosely been told before in the 1971 French film Mais Ne Nous Délivrez Pas Du Mal (Don’t Deliver Us From Evil) and while there are elements of the story in this interesting film there are lots of liberties as well, the most obvious being the story is set in France. I do recommend Don’t Deliver Us From Evil as a decent movie however. I had the fortunate opportunity of seeing Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures at the small and cozy Grande Illusions Cinema in Seattle. I knew the name Peter Jackson at the time from his horror/fantasy work and still connect it to the alien vomit drinking scene in Bad Taste. I was not sure what to expect. I was more than happy with the film and Jackson’s decision to move away from slapstick-gore films (though if he wanted to return once in awhile that would be okay too).
Juliet’s parents move to the small community of Christchurch from England. There her father takes the position of regent at a University and it must be a step down for him but the move is necessary for Juliet’s health. The intellectually disciplined Dr. Henry Hulme (Clive Merrison) would develop conflicts eventually with the small town provincialism of the Christchurch school leaders that would lead to yet one more element of insecurity in the life of Juliet. She has tuberculosis in one lung and the warm climes of places like the Bahamas and now New Zealand are more suited to treating her ailment. She befriends classmate Pauline Rieper while both of them sit out gym class each day due to health concerns. Pauline suffered from the bone disease osteomyelitis in her legs and has the scars of numerous operations to show for her ordeal, scars that Juliet wants to gaze at over and over. Juliet is a bright and vivacious girl with a sharp intellect. Her family is affluent and well bred and educated. Frumpy and insecure Pauline comes from a working class family and she is soon overwhelmed by the opulent lives led by the Hulmes. At the same times she becomes all but ashamed of her own family and its crude views of the world.
While Pauline seems to entertain fantasies that she has become a part of the Hulme household nothing could be further from reality as not only does Henry Hulme become concerned over the nature of the girl’s relationship but he and his wife Hilda (Diana Kent) are drifting apart and looking to get a divorce eventually. For now they live together, with Hilda’s psychiatric and lover Bill, out of convenience and propriety. At her home Pauline has become more and more distant from her parents and particularly combative with her mother Honora (Sarah Peirse) who really seems to do the best she can but has her hands full. After Pauline is caught in the sack with one of the boarders her parents put even more restrictions on her comings and goings. The final nail in the girl’s coffin comes after Juliet is released from a TB hospital and Henry is asked to resign from the University and he decides to return to England and leave cheating Hilda in New Zealand. Juliet will not stay with her two timing mother and refuses to go to England without Pauline, and England is simply bad for her health at this time. She needs a warm, dry climate to get better and so the family decides to send her to live with an aunt in South Africa. The girls image that Pauline can leave and go live in South Africa with Juliet but Pauline’s mother makes it clear that her 15 year old daughter is not going anywhere. They then have big plans of getting together some money and running away to America to become writers but that dream is squashed as well when Honora refuses to sign for her passport.
Driven to such a situation what else can you do but hatch a murder plot where you put half a brick into a stocking and repeatedly beat poor your own mother’s skull in after having a cup of tea with her. According to information not presented in the film the girl’s made up the story that Honora slipped and fell and hit a rock while walking with them through a park. The body showed she had been beat in the head and face multiple times and there were defensive wounds on her hands as well. Well, maybe she fell and got up and fell again, and then got back up and…
The girl’s story unraveled the very same day when police discovered Pauline’s diary in her bedroom. They both only served five years in jail ad were released on the condition they never contact one another again, and as far as anyone knows they never have. The film treats the characters sympathetically. And not just the girls. Juliet’s parents are distant from her but they are trying to sort out the mess of their privates lives at the same time. Pauline’s parents are simple folk but love her and cannot quite deal with her sudden bitterness and hostility. Juliet’s beaming personality hides an anguished soul and Pauline’s brooding nature only intensifies as the film progresses. The onscreen chemistry between Winslet and Lynskey is of a rare variety. They became so immersed in their roles that they continued to portray the characters off screen as well. Watch for one scene were a jubilant Juliet kisses a bum on the street. It is a cameo by Peter Jackson. Producer and Jackson’s friend and associate Jim Booth died when the film was completed and it is dedicated to him. A dark and marvelous journey from a man could have just continued making zombie movies.
A fan based site with laods of trivia about both the film and actual crime can be found here at a site called The 4th World after the imaginary world the girls created between themselves. The site has a massive FAQ as well as information on the victim Honora (Nora) Parker.
Here is the web page for mystery author Anne Perry (Juliet Hulme). In her site bio there is no mention of the fact she once helped a friend of hers brutally murder the friend’s mother with a brick stuffed inside a stocking. Probably best.
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HEAVENLY CREATURES
1994/Director: Peter Jackson/Writers: Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, Simon O’Connor, Jed Brophy
On June 22, 1954 the peaceful little port city of Christchurch, New Zealand was shaken to the core by the murder of one Honora Rieper in idyllic Victoria Park. The horror only grew when diary entries by Honora’s daughter Pauline Parker (Pauline used her mother’s maiden name during the subsequent trial since Honora and Herbert Rieper had never actually married, though it proved to be a minor issue scandal wise) led police to arrest her and her friend Juliet Hulme for murder. The trial and its press coverage was something of a phenomenon for the citizens of New Zealand who had not had much excitement since Sir Edmund Hillary scaled Mt. Everest a year before. The papers were rife with conjecture concerning the relationship between the two girls. Did the girls share some type of insanity? Were they lesbian lovers? That may seem trivial now, or it may not, but in 50’s New Zealand homosexuality was an indication of a severe mental disorder as well as criminal behavior. The real life Juliet Hulme, who went on to live in Scotland and write mystery novels under the name Anne Perry, has denied there was ever a lesbian relationship between herself and Pauline, who now resides in England under the name Hilary Nathan and, as a Roamn Catholic convert, devotes her life to helping handicapped children. One thing for certain was that the girls had formed over a period of a couple years deep bound that they were not about to split apart by the decisions of their families without resistance.
Peter Jackson had gained a reputation up to this point for making splatter horror/comedy films such as Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles and Braindead (Dead Alive). The movies were pretty good low budget fare that have all gone to genuine cult status but were hardly the sort of thing that would attract mainstream attention or approval. He was approached by friend and writer Fran Walsh with the concept of turning the Parker-Hulme murder story into a motion picture. Walsh had long been fascinated with the story and hoped to give the story a fact based retelling. The story had actually loosely been told before in the 1971 French film Mais Ne Nous Délivrez Pas Du Mal (Don’t Deliver Us From Evil) and while there are elements of the story in this interesting film there are lots of liberties as well, the most obvious being the story is set in France. I do recommend Don’t Deliver Us From Evil as a decent movie however. I had the fortunate opportunity of seeing Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures at the small and cozy Grande Illusions Cinema in Seattle. I knew the name Peter Jackson at the time from his horror/fantasy work and still connect it to the alien vomit drinking scene in Bad Taste. I was not sure what to expect. I was more than happy with the film and Jackson’s decision to move away from slapstick-gore films (though if he wanted to return once in awhile that would be okay too).
Jackson and Walsh decided to focus the film on the story of the girl’s relationship rather than make it a courtroom drama. In fact there is never a court room shot at all nor even an arresting police officer. The film introduces female leads Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet. Winslet competed against 175 other actresses to get the role. She is really brilliant here but Melanie Lynskey, who went on to a more modest degree of stardom in lesser known films and TV, is simply fantastic as the underprivileged, embittered and desperate Pauline Parker.
Juliet’s parents move to the small community of Christchurch from England. There her father takes the position of regent at a University and it must be a step down for him but the move is necessary for Juliet’s health. The intellectually disciplined Dr. Henry Hulme (Clive Merrison) would develop conflicts eventually with the small town provincialism of the Christchurch school leaders that would lead to yet one more element of insecurity in the life of Juliet. She has tuberculosis in one lung and the warm climes of places like the Bahamas and now New Zealand are more suited to treating her ailment. She befriends classmate Pauline Rieper while both of them sit out gym class each day due to health concerns. Pauline suffered from the bone disease osteomyelitis in her legs and has the scars of numerous operations to show for her ordeal, scars that Juliet wants to gaze at over and over. Juliet is a bright and vivacious girl with a sharp intellect. Her family is affluent and well bred and educated. Frumpy and insecure Pauline comes from a working class family and she is soon overwhelmed by the opulent lives led by the Hulmes. At the same times she becomes all but ashamed of her own family and its crude views of the world.
The girls escape reality in many seemingly innocuous fashions. They develop a fantasy world they call Borovnia where the inhabitants seem to be parodies of the royal family. The world of Borovnia showcases Jackson’s fascination with animation and fantasy scenes that are a part of all his films. Juliet has inherited her father’s agnosticism and she develops a non-Christian quasi-spiritual realm known as the Fourth World and Pauline is invited to be a part of this world were images of their favorite opera singers and movie actors are enshrined and worshipped . Singer Mario Lanzi is held in godlike reverence by Juliet but she is revolted when Pauline tries to include a b/w photo of Orsen Welles into the shrine. A later nightmare sequence would show Welles stalking the girls through film noir type sets.
While Pauline seems to entertain fantasies that she has become a part of the Hulme household nothing could be further from reality as not only does Henry Hulme become concerned over the nature of the girl’s relationship but he and his wife Hilda (Diana Kent) are drifting apart and looking to get a divorce eventually. For now they live together, with Hilda’s psychiatric and lover Bill, out of convenience and propriety. At her home Pauline has become more and more distant from her parents and particularly combative with her mother Honora (Sarah Peirse) who really seems to do the best she can but has her hands full. After Pauline is caught in the sack with one of the boarders her parents put even more restrictions on her comings and goings. The final nail in the girl’s coffin comes after Juliet is released from a TB hospital and Henry is asked to resign from the University and he decides to return to England and leave cheating Hilda in New Zealand. Juliet will not stay with her two timing mother and refuses to go to England without Pauline, and England is simply bad for her health at this time. She needs a warm, dry climate to get better and so the family decides to send her to live with an aunt in South Africa. The girls image that Pauline can leave and go live in South Africa with Juliet but Pauline’s mother makes it clear that her 15 year old daughter is not going anywhere. They then have big plans of getting together some money and running away to America to become writers but that dream is squashed as well when Honora refuses to sign for her passport.
Driven to such a situation what else can you do but hatch a murder plot where you put half a brick into a stocking and repeatedly beat poor your own mother’s skull in after having a cup of tea with her. According to information not presented in the film the girl’s made up the story that Honora slipped and fell and hit a rock while walking with them through a park. The body showed she had been beat in the head and face multiple times and there were defensive wounds on her hands as well. Well, maybe she fell and got up and fell again, and then got back up and…
The girl’s story unraveled the very same day when police discovered Pauline’s diary in her bedroom. They both only served five years in jail ad were released on the condition they never contact one another again, and as far as anyone knows they never have. The film treats the characters sympathetically. And not just the girls. Juliet’s parents are distant from her but they are trying to sort out the mess of their privates lives at the same time. Pauline’s parents are simple folk but love her and cannot quite deal with her sudden bitterness and hostility. Juliet’s beaming personality hides an anguished soul and Pauline’s brooding nature only intensifies as the film progresses. The onscreen chemistry between Winslet and Lynskey is of a rare variety. They became so immersed in their roles that they continued to portray the characters off screen as well. Watch for one scene were a jubilant Juliet kisses a bum on the street. It is a cameo by Peter Jackson. Producer and Jackson’s friend and associate Jim Booth died when the film was completed and it is dedicated to him. A dark and marvelous journey from a man could have just continued making zombie movies.
For further information on the actual events check out this site from The Christchurch Library archives. It is loaded with newspaper clips covering the case from start to finish.
A fan based site with laods of trivia about both the film and actual crime can be found here at a site called The 4th World after the imaginary world the girls created between themselves. The site has a massive FAQ as well as information on the victim Honora (Nora) Parker.
Here is the web page for mystery author Anne Perry (Juliet Hulme). In her site bio there is no mention of the fact she once helped a friend of hers brutally murder the friend’s mother with a brick stuffed inside a stocking. Probably best.
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Heavenly Creatures (1994)
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PETER JACKSON’S 1994 TRUE CRIME FILM: HEAVENLY CREATURES
HEAVENLY CREATURES 1994/Director: Peter Jackson/Writers: Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, Simon O’Connor, Jed Brophy On June 22, 1954 the peaceful little port city of Christchurch, New Zealand was shaken to the core by the murder of one Honora Rieper in idyllic Victoria Park. The horror only grew when diary entries by Honora’s daughter Pauline Parker (Pauline used her mother’s maiden name during the subsequent trial since Honora and Herbert Rieper had never actually married, though it proved to be a minor issue scandal wise) led police to arrest her and her friend Juliet Hulme for murder. The trial and its press coverage was something of a phenomenon for the citizens of New Zealand who had not had much excitement since Sir Edmund Hillary scaled Mt. Everest a year before. The papers were rife with conjecture concerning the relationship between the two girls. Did the girls share some...
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Movies 365: Day 41 – Heavenly Creatures
Surely it was this film that convinced studio heads that Peter Jackson was the right person to make The Lovely Bones, fortunately, unlike The Lovely Bones, Heavenly Creatures is actually a good movie. Based on a true story, the film follows the tale of Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet), two young teenage girls in New Zealand in the 1950s. Their friendship, which comes quickly, soon becomes obsessive and all consuming. The girls create a vivid fantasy world, which the use to escape their lives, and fall into a deeper obsession with each other. It’s not spoiling anything to say that eventually this leads to the two girls murdering Pauline’s mother, as the film begins with the immediate aftermath of the murder. Jackson, and frequent collaborator Fran Walsh, choose to tell the story of the friendship between the two girls, instead of focusing on the crime they will eventually commit.
The film is good, if not a slight bit over the top at times, but the performances of Lynskey and Winslet are good, although, I would argue that Lynskey is the real star here, hers, a much more subtle and natural performance than Winslet’s. Jackson’s ability to meld the girl’s fantasy and reality together makes their madness much more understandable, and his integration of special effects is done very well. The film really captures that time in our lives when we were teenagers, and everything was life or death, when we knew that the adults in our lives knew nothing, and that we were the smart ones, the ones who knew about life, and love, and happiness, things our parents could never understand.
The film is good, if not a slight bit over the top at times, but the performances of Lynskey and Winslet are good, although, I would argue that Lynskey is the real star here, hers, a much more subtle and natural performance than Winslet’s. Jackson’s ability to meld the girl’s fantasy and reality together makes their madness much more understandable, and his integration of special effects is done very well. The film really captures that time in our lives when we were teenagers, and everything was life or death, when we knew that the adults in our lives knew nothing, and that we were the smart ones, the ones who knew about life, and love, and happiness, things our parents could never understand.
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