@deanduncan63Saw #Mama. Very cool pre-credit sequence. Made me think of Raising Arizona. Hurrah, precocious young cinéastes!
#Mama. Some implausibility, like Jessica Chastain as a punker. Who cares? I loved this one!
#Mama really echoes Agee/Laughton’s (Cortez’s!) Night of the Hunter. Here the males, whether murderous or magnanimous …
… are basically ineffectual. Shelley Winters comes back as Robert Mitchum! The Lillian Gish figure, as essayed by Ms. Chastain …
… is very ambivalent about being the salvific female. This makes her travail & sacrifice that much more moving.
#Mama. These children are a lot more convincing than John & Pearl, aren’t they? “It’s a hard world for little things.”
#Mama. That kid should have died at the end of How to Train Your Dragon, right? This tougher ending feels right …
… mythologically speaking.
#Mama. Very nice mix of ghost story and fairy tale. Fearsome revenant is a life saver, loves deeply, & knows not what she does.