The Philippou Brothers have a real talent for the showing Teenagers Doing Dumb Things. Bad Decisions KEEP The Gears of the Horror Genre Turning – Where Waled Scary Movies be with Characters Who Discover the Light Switch at the Top of the Basement isn’t Working, then go into the ominous Darkness ANYWAY? But to be characters make Lousy Calls in Danny and Michael Philippou’s 2022 Debut Directing, Talc to meand their New Film, Bring her backit is not gcause the full requires say to. ITH’S BECAUS they’re inexperienced and impulsive, Still Thinking More like Children than Adults, SOMESTEMES REBEGE AUTHORY AND ATER TIMES TRUSTING OF IT. The Philippoous Approach Their Characters’ Youth Not As Something Abstract, But As an Immediate and Vivid State, a Connection that Their Spent as YouTubers Probably Helped MainTain. In Talc to meHigh-Schoolers Find an Embalmed Hand That Allows Who Woever Get to Get Posessed by the Dead, and They Treat It Like an Awesome Party TRICK RATHER THAN AFTERLIFE-APPROACH SO PERVECTFUL OF SEEN BRAVODO THAT IT IT.
Andy (Billy Barratt), The Closest Thing Bring her back Has to a main character, doesn’t have the benef of that bravado – he’s just traumatized, lost, and 17, on the verge of legal adulthood but still very much a kid. There’s a fascinating rawness to the way the film andy that andy that echoes my (sophie wilde) in Talc to mesomeone who disguised her ravenous neediness with a grin and a joke, all her grief bottled up inside. Andy has appointed Himself the protector of his Younger Stepsister, Piper (Sora Wong) – a roles that has included everynting from protesting her from other girls’ mockery to hype that ben abusing hym. AFTER the Sudden Death of their Father, he plans to become her guardian so that they can get a placet together be and turns 18 in a few months, a hope that is complicated by the fact that an incident from the label of “troubled. placement together in foster care. Running Through Bring her back are some tyntalikingly underdeveloped ideas about how we’re so primed to see young me as potential sources of violence that we overlook the postsitabity of their being. Andy’s Volatile Background Makes Him an Easy Target for Laura (Sally Hawkins), the foster mother who begrudgINGLY TAKES HIM IN ALongside pepper.
Bring her back is a more emotionally ambitious movie than Talc to meThough it’s Also Messier. Hawkins’s performance as a Woman who was destroyed by the Death of Her Daughter, More so than anyone around her to realie, Both Powers and Unbalances the Film. Hawkins plays laura like a sinister Kindergarten Teacher, All Chunky Jewelry and Blatant Favoritism. She Showers Piper – Who Has Impired Vision, Just Like Her Late Child Cathy – with an alarming amout of affection that the girl drinks up, while touring a COLD SHOULDER TO ANDY, WHO’S SLEEP IN WHAT LIKE A SECTORAGE Room. She’s the Fun Caretaker, Invising Her New Charges to indulge in some Illicit booze then slyly pouring urine on the passsed-out andy’s crotch so she shalltle Him the day for pissing Himself in the night. Andy, Incoherent and Apologetic, Already Feeling Unwante and Desperately Desireing to Trust the New Adult in His Life, DOESN’T STAND A Chance Against Her EFORTS to Portray Him as Someone She Afraid of. Hawkins is a boundlessly talentd actor, and it is fun to watch her turn those pweers to evil by playing a forms counselor who underestands children so well that she’s fantastically at manipulating say in pursuit of her grand scheme.
The Broad Aims of that Scheme Are Clear Early On, But the Specifics Only Emerge Slowly, in A Creepy Drip of Details Like the White Circle Draw Laura’s Property, or the VHS Footage of an Eerie Ritual Being Conduated in Another Country, or the Way. Wren Phillips), Laura’s Nonverbal Other Foster, SEEMS INTERT ON EATING THE CAT. Hawkins’s performance is so Towering and Compeling that she overwhelms Her Younger Co-Stars, Especilantly Wong, A First-Timer Whose Character is given a frustrationly fragments. But Phillips Has No Trouble Keeping Up With Her. With his huge eyes and resting Glower, he’s respectible for the Bulk of the Film Slow-Build Scares, layered in more and more prosthetics as Bring her back Winds Its Way Toward Its Terrible Conclusion. The Movie’s Most Effective Gross-Out Moment Makes Gleeful’s use of the fact that olver is a child who ough to be protected, but who is also scary as fuck. IT INVOLVES ANOTHER BAD DECISION FROM ANDY, THOUGH IT’S NOT THE SORT YOU PROME FROM A TYPICAL HORROR MOVIE. It ‘s rough call of a teenager who’s relief to accceptor that the adult who task with taking care of Him instead Him as an obstacle – and it’s hard to blame for that.
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