So I recently watched The Glass Castle and I'm here to bring you my review. So without further ado...
Based on a memoir, four siblings must learn to take care of themselves as their responsibility-averse, free-spirit parents both inspire and inhibit them. When sober, the children's brilliant and charismatic father (played by Woody Harrellson) captured their imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Meanwhile, their mother (played by Naomi Watts) abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want to take on the work of raising a family.
This is a very confusing, but yet interesting film. Just reading the synopsis of the film you can tell that the film had a real great chance to bring a lot of emotional drama to the screen and be one of those gut-wrenching films that gets considerable buzz and is something that you want to see if you need a good cry. However the film does come across that way and it's just loses itself along the way and you truly never get to experience a great emotional ordeal. Yes the whole story of this family and of this particular sad from an outside perspective, but the film doesn't really focus on those hardcore emotional aspects like it should and tries to make the film feel like a much more happier story than it is. On the emotional aspects it does focus on, the film hits them out of the park and it's mostly due to terrific acting from Brie Larson and Woody Harrellson and both just bring so much emotion and life to each of their roles. Going back to the emotional moments, it's a shock that we don't get the more hardcore moments simply because director Destin Daniel Cretton did such a good job of that when he did Short Term 12 which also starred Brie Larson and that's almost the type of film you are expecting without any glossing over. Another poor aspect of the film is that we really don't get much of a sense of feeling from the other siblings and how they dealt with everything and it seems to only focus on how it effected Brie Larson's character as she is also the one who wrote the memoir that inspired this film. Overall this film is a film that tires to be something it's not and strays away from what it should've been, but the performances from Larson and Harrellson are defiantly a must see along with a couple of moments that will leave you heartbroken. I give The Glass Castle a 3.5 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of The Glass Castle, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
Based on a memoir, four siblings must learn to take care of themselves as their responsibility-averse, free-spirit parents both inspire and inhibit them. When sober, the children's brilliant and charismatic father (played by Woody Harrellson) captured their imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Meanwhile, their mother (played by Naomi Watts) abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want to take on the work of raising a family.
This is a very confusing, but yet interesting film. Just reading the synopsis of the film you can tell that the film had a real great chance to bring a lot of emotional drama to the screen and be one of those gut-wrenching films that gets considerable buzz and is something that you want to see if you need a good cry. However the film does come across that way and it's just loses itself along the way and you truly never get to experience a great emotional ordeal. Yes the whole story of this family and of this particular sad from an outside perspective, but the film doesn't really focus on those hardcore emotional aspects like it should and tries to make the film feel like a much more happier story than it is. On the emotional aspects it does focus on, the film hits them out of the park and it's mostly due to terrific acting from Brie Larson and Woody Harrellson and both just bring so much emotion and life to each of their roles. Going back to the emotional moments, it's a shock that we don't get the more hardcore moments simply because director Destin Daniel Cretton did such a good job of that when he did Short Term 12 which also starred Brie Larson and that's almost the type of film you are expecting without any glossing over. Another poor aspect of the film is that we really don't get much of a sense of feeling from the other siblings and how they dealt with everything and it seems to only focus on how it effected Brie Larson's character as she is also the one who wrote the memoir that inspired this film. Overall this film is a film that tires to be something it's not and strays away from what it should've been, but the performances from Larson and Harrellson are defiantly a must see along with a couple of moments that will leave you heartbroken. I give The Glass Castle a 3.5 out of 10.
So ladies and gentlemen what did you think of The Glass Castle, what would you rate it and what did you think of my review? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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