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If you follow me for a while, you probably know that I love movies, series and documentaries and that I use to recommend some here on the blog. Movies have the same power of books of raising awareness and demystifying certain issues and situations.
The last recommendations here were about the challenges during the adoption process and the paternity, ‘A Martian Child’, and another about how a child perceives the divorce crisis of his parents on the movie ‘What Maisie Knew’.
Today the recommendation is a movie that at first glance appears to be a scary horror movie, but don't be too quick to judge. The movie ‘ A Monster Calls’ is about dreams, loss, mourning and bullying.
The movie tells the history of Conor, an isolated boy who coexists with the risk of losing his mother in the fight against cancer and the consequences he experiences in order to accept this situation and deal with the effects of the loss. The thought of losing his mother affects Conor deeply, causing him to have constant nightmares about it. One night though he is visited by a monster, a threatening being in the form of a giant tree, who decides to tell the boy three stories and after those the young man should tell his about his nightmares.
To try to solve Conor's problem, the film plays a game between real world and the fantastic and the layers of dreams, and illustrates in a playful way the child mind. The film was adapted from the book by Patrick Ness.
The story is touching and sad but at the same time shows how a boy still so immature to deal with such heavy themes can master and face his fears and puts us in place of the Other.
The last recommendations here were about the challenges during the adoption process and the paternity, ‘A Martian Child’, and another about how a child perceives the divorce crisis of his parents on the movie ‘What Maisie Knew’.
Today the recommendation is a movie that at first glance appears to be a scary horror movie, but don't be too quick to judge. The movie ‘ A Monster Calls’ is about dreams, loss, mourning and bullying.
The movie tells the history of Conor, an isolated boy who coexists with the risk of losing his mother in the fight against cancer and the consequences he experiences in order to accept this situation and deal with the effects of the loss. The thought of losing his mother affects Conor deeply, causing him to have constant nightmares about it. One night though he is visited by a monster, a threatening being in the form of a giant tree, who decides to tell the boy three stories and after those the young man should tell his about his nightmares.
To try to solve Conor's problem, the film plays a game between real world and the fantastic and the layers of dreams, and illustrates in a playful way the child mind. The film was adapted from the book by Patrick Ness.
The story is touching and sad but at the same time shows how a boy still so immature to deal with such heavy themes can master and face his fears and puts us in place of the Other.
Check out the trailer:
See you next time,
Laura
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