The
Glass Castle 4/10
Years
ago I read the book The Glass Castle and loved it. I remember seeing
a trailer for this and got excited because the cast of Brie Larson
and Woody Harrelson. It is on Amazon so I decided to check it out
today and was super disappointed with it. I was not comparing it to
the book since I can not recall the book completely, just a feeling
of “Wow, this lady is way more forgiving of her parents than I
would be.” This movie makes it seem even more so and by the end it
felt like I was straight up watching a movie and could not even enjoy
it anymore and the longer it went, it's over two hours, I was like
You know what? I totally could not have seen this and been fine.”
I know
that sounds weird but this is not a terrible film. The acting is good
and they are doing the best they can with the writing and directing
but while watching I totally felt like this would have been better as
a series or told in a better order. This is the story of a young girl
that grows up with her family of two other sisters and a brother. Her
father and mother drag them all around the country when he needs to
leave a town because of trouble of some kind be it with people,
police, or whatever. The parents turn it into an adventure for the
kids but eventually that shit gets old and as the kids get older
their fathers drinking get worse and so does the frequency of their
moving.
Mixed
in with her childhood is her present day where she is engaged and her fiance is afraid to meet her now homeless parents who are worse than
when she was growing up. They are squatting in New York and she is
successful writing a gossip column. She once again gets fed up with
their bullshit but makes up with her parents when her dad is dying.
The way the music starts playing and the loving scenes with her and
all her siblings talking about their father and laughing at different
tales about him. “Remember that time he tried to throw mom out the
window? Or when he punched that lifeguard after almost drowning you?
Or how about that time he almost let you get raped?! Hahaha!
Ah...good times.” This movie was all over the place and uneven. I
hoped this would be better than it was and it seemed like such a
waste of a great cast. At least I discovered Sarah Snook.
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