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The Glass Castle (2017)
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A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
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What a waste of my time!!!
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
We waited two hours for something to actually happen in this movie... The father started out as a crap dad and was consistently a crap dad until the end. Nothing really happened. The acting was great but the story just didn't go anywhere.
The storyline was perfect, you don't get bored at any moment of the movie. Great amount of emotions were well-introduced by everyone and I was specifically surprised by the excellent performance of the young actors! As always Woodie never fails at making the best out of his role and Brie Larson did a wonderful job too. I enjoyed the movie and it was a lovely couple of hours spent.
There is no nice way to put it. The film doesn't do the book justice.The book manages to convince us that Jeanette can understand how badly her parents looked after their children and still love them. The film fails to do that, which results in a review of traumatic childhood experiences.Other reviews suggest that this is because there is too much to fit in the 2 hours of film. The problem of the film is that too much has been put in, and all the childhood stories are shown as short flashbacks. But the lack of time, and the loss of chronological ordering, make it impossible to see the strong theme in the book: that somehow the children manage to deal with their hardships and turn them into something positive. The power in the childhood stories for me was that Jeanette managed to be in control in the end, and that effect was missing in the film flashbacks for lack of time. It would have been better to select fewer stories and then fully develop them. Read the book first, without it the film does not make sense.
A man's life and plans for his family are like the desire to build a glass castle for them to enjoy. Most of the time, the glass castle is never built. Powerful performance by Woody Harrelson and Ella Anderson. Brie Larson must be noted for her part marking this film enjoyable.