It is never a great idea to review something one month after viewing, yet the distillation period often provides the fodder for additional material to seep in from under the edges of the experience. The major theme of this film is to me one of empathy, with a distant side of mystery and adventure. Let us start with Oakes Fegley. Not your regulation teen, thank you casting director! His nuance and underplaying for this role is on the money. And when his character is required to emote, the amazing scene of Finn Wolfhard's character comforting him after a terrible dream is textbook acting in my books. Wolfhard has this wonderful role and leaves an angular silhouette long after the film has shifted to a later time period. The characters who play these two above-mentioned older roles now are Ansel Elgort and Aneurin Barnard, who share scenes of genuine action. Elgort is now an enigmatic antiques specialist, with Barnard his reunited, empathetic, friend.
The film's titular item is a 1654 painting of The Goldfinch which, like all art, represents subjective meaning and, in this instance, also alludes to the un-empathetic characters played by Nicole Kidman and Luke Wilson. But this is Fegley's movie. Intensity may have been his character's middle name...
The film's titular item is a 1654 painting of The Goldfinch which, like all art, represents subjective meaning and, in this instance, also alludes to the un-empathetic characters played by Nicole Kidman and Luke Wilson. But this is Fegley's movie. Intensity may have been his character's middle name...
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