{"id":175119,"date":"2021-02-10T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-sweet-but-slight-comedy-film\/"},"modified":"2021-02-10T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T18:00:04","slug":"a-sweet-but-slight-comedy-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-sweet-but-slight-comedy-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Sweet But Slight Comedy \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A Sweet But Slight Comedy \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\"marvelous<\/p>\n

13 is a hard age. No longer a child, not yet an adult, and nowhere to channel that teen angst, which is even rawer for angry delinquent Sammy Ko (Miya Cech<\/strong>), who is struggling to overcome the grief over losing her mother. So Sammy breaks things at her school and tattoos little x\u2019s on her thigh with a makeshift tattoo pen, until her father (Leonardo Nam<\/strong>) gets fed up and threatens her with military camp. If she can make it through one business class over the summer, then she doesn\u2019t have to go.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Kate Tsang<\/strong> (Steven Universe<\/em>) in her feature directorial debut,\u00a0Marvelous and the Black Hole<\/em><\/strong> is sweet but slight coming-of-age dramedy about a troubled teen finding the magic in, well, magic. Tsang\u2019s background in the animation world gives the film a bit of zest that elevates it from its standard coming-of-age trapp<\/a>ings, but apart from a kooky performance from Rhea Perlman<\/strong>, Marvelous and the Black Hole<\/em> is an inoffensive but adequate odd-couple comedy.
\nAnd there\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with that.\u00a0Marvelous and the Black Hole<\/em>, if anything, heralds the arrival of a promising new director with a talent for tapping into the hard emotions of an unhappy teen and making something magical out of it. Sammy\u2019s memories of her mother exist in grainy black-and-white films that play out in her mind, of the old Chinese folktales that her mother used to tell her when she was young. Sammy\u2019s rage can be seen in the little pencil scribbles that dance across the screen, creating morbid little drawings that turn into hurricanes of black graphite. Her inner thoughts are written across her thighs in the black little x\u2019s, one of which begins bleeding one day when a particularly bad day at her summer class sends her to the bathroom where she angrily sketches out her feelings on her body.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s there where she meets Perlman\u2019s eccentric magician Margot, who notes with concern that Sammy is bleeding before observing that the angry little teen reminds her of her when she was young. Without warning, Margot takes Sammy by the hand to return with her to the kindergarten class where she\u2019s performing a magic show, forcing Sammy to act as her assistant. At first irritated to be dragged into a silly magic show, Sammy\u2019s eyes widen when she sees Margot carry out her act, bringing a rabbit out of a hat and making paper flowers bloom all over her body. Tsang\u2019s sly use of stop-motion to show the flowers slowly open creates a sense of awe, as if magic really does exist for just one moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMagic is about making your audience feel something,\u201d Margot instructs Sammy after the teen pleads with her to be taught magic. \u201cIdeally it\u2019s wonder, but I\u2019ll settle for raw rage in your case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair strike up an odd couple \u2014 the older teaching the younger how to make sense of her grief and turn it into magic, the younger getting the older to open up her quirky exterior a little and embrace some of her long-held trauma. It\u2019s a sweet dynamic that we\u2019ve seen many times before, but Perlman and Cech sell it, with Cech more than holding her own against the acting veteran, convincingly playing surly and shy in all their shades.<\/p>\n

But the magic act that the two dream up put Sammy at odds with her father, who notices her frequent absences from class and is unhappy for her strange friendship with Margot and her equally kooky group of magician friends. Sammy\u2019s unhappiness becomes tenfold, taking the form of the titular \u201cblack hole,\u201d which is how she sees her anger, as if it will swallow her life up.
\nMarvelous and the Black Hole<\/em> is a satisfying showcase from Tsang, who really draws from her animation background to show these moments of intense emotion from Sammy, but its broad strokes are a little\u2026broad. The beats are a mostly predictable and standard for the coming-of-age story, but they\u2019re pulled off competently, which is more than enough for a charming debut film.<\/p>\n

\/Film Rating: 6.5 out of 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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