{"id":194042,"date":"2021-03-04T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-shockingly-grim-leftover-of-the-ya-craze-film\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:00:15","slug":"a-shockingly-grim-leftover-of-the-ya-craze-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-shockingly-grim-leftover-of-the-ya-craze-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Shockingly Grim Leftover of the YA Craze \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A Shockingly Grim Leftover of the YA Craze \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Maybe there\u2019s a reason that the YA dystopian genre had been long left behind by Hollywood. Films like The Hunger Game<\/a>s, Divergent,<\/em> and Maze Runner<\/em> had their heyday in the early 2010s, but the premise of beautiful teens and twenty-somethings having to reckon with their share of authoritarian governments\/world-ending threats\/love triangles had run its course. But there will always be a few stragglers to a Hollywood trend, and the long-delayed Chaos Walking<\/em><\/strong> is one of them.<\/p>\n

Directed by Doug Liman<\/strong>, Chaos Walking<\/em> was unquestionably meant to be the next big franchise for Star Wars<\/em> and Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em> breakout stars Daisy Ridley<\/strong> and Tom Holland<\/strong>, respectively, but rewrites, poor test screenings, and other various behind-the-scenes problems would shelve the movie until it became a strange relic of another time. And that\u2019s what Chaos Walking <\/em>is: a relic, but an odd one at that, one that bears all the hallmarks of a standard YA dystopian movie, but with a shockingly grim and dark tone that app<\/a>ears to be part of an ill-conceived attempt to set it apart from the pack.
\nBased on the first book of Patrick Ness<\/strong>\u2018 Chaos Walking<\/em> trilogy, The Knife of Never Letting Go<\/em>, Chaos Walking<\/em> is set in a distant future, on a distant planet colonized by humans. But on this planet, no women remain while the men are all afflicted by \u201cthe Noise,\u201d a force that puts all their thoughts on display. Holland stars as Todd Hewitt, a boy living in the settlement of Prentisstown who has particular trouble controlling his \u201cNoise,\u201d his thoughts spilling out in a barrage of images and whispered half-thoughts, which take the form of colored swirls at constantly revolve around his head. The effects that depict the \u201cNoise\u201d are perhaps the most striking thing to come out of the film \u2014 swirls that turn into images at the drop of a hat; images that take on a life on their own and become birds, or rabbits, bounding out from the heads of their creators, sometimes even taking solid effect if the thought is strong enough. It becomes a pivotal part of Chaos Walking<\/em>, both in-universe (the Noise is used simultaneously as currency, as brute force, or as bargaining chips) and in keeping the film from becoming too much of a snooze.<\/p>\n

Todd spends his time trying to keep his Noise under control while dutifully attending to his chores on the farm run by his adoptive fathers (Demi\u00e1n Bichir<\/strong> and Kurt Sutter<\/strong>), his parents having died when he was young in the war with the Spackle, the natives of the world, who he was told released a \u201cgerm\u201d that was particularly fatal to women. But Todd desperately wants to impress the mayor of Prentisstown, David Prentiss (a fabulous fur coat-wearing Mads Mikkelsen<\/strong>), frequently putting him at odds with David\u2019s cruel son (Nick Jonas<\/strong>, great at playing assholes).<\/p>\n

But the fragile harmony of Todd\u2019s life is shattered with the arrival of Viola (Ridley), a woman who crash lands on the planet after her scouting spaceship is torn to pieces by the force which gives its male inhabitants the \u201cNoise.\u201d The only survivor of the spaceship, Viola is discovered by Todd, who panics upon seeing the first girl in his life, and accidentally informs the entire village about her. Ridley, sporting a particularly bad blonde wig, barely speaks for the first half of the movie, leading Todd to think that Viola is mute, until he finally earns her trust by helping her escape David Prentiss and his legions of brainwashed minions, who want to kill her to prevent her from sending a message for rescue. There only hope: to make their way across the dangerous planet to another settlement, led by the tough-as-nails\u00a0Hildy Black (Cynthia Erivo<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all very par for the course for a YA dystopian movie: an oppressive regime that attempts to control its people through fear, a young protagonist (significantly aged up from the books) whose worldview is completely changed in a hamfisted metaphor for puberty, a central romance between two equally attractive leads.\u00a0Chaos Walking<\/em> even throws in a cute dog as a sidekick. The script is surprisingly banal for one that has undergone so many drafts and had a horde of screenwriters like\u00a0Charlie Kaufman, Jamie Linden, John Lee Hancock, Gary Spinelli, and Lindsey Beer touching it up at one point. The final version is ultimately penned by book author Patrick Ness with Christopher Ford<\/strong>, and it\u2019s one that feels exceedingly uninspired, except for the occasional shocks of gruesome violence and odd moments of naivety from Holland\u2019s Todd (including him getting butt naked in front of Viola\u2026to fight a giant squid) that feel like a leftover from when the character was younger or when the story was weirder.<\/p>\n

So Liman, who has proved he can make inspired sci-fi movies<\/a> before with films like\u00a0Edge of Tomorrow<\/em>, attempts to elevate\u00a0Chaos Walking<\/em> from the rest of its YA compatriots by giving it an intensely dark and grim tone. There\u2019s no humor to be found in this movie, only violence and death, and the occasional naked squid fight (I still don\u2019t know who that scene was for). And as if to hammer in how bleak this movie is,\u00a0Chaos Walking<\/em>\u00a0makes sure to establish the stakes with shocking moments of animal cruelty. I won\u2019t say what happens to the dog. The talented supporting cast is given little to do other than grimace or flaunt their fur coats, or in\u00a0David Oyelowo<\/strong>\u2018s case, scream fire-and-brimstone verses as the town\u2019s vengeful preacher who has it out for Todd and Viola. Holland and Ridley give serviceable performances as plucky YA protagonists who just want a better life.
\nOther than a few inventive sequences around the film\u2019s central conceit of \u201cthe Noise,\u201d\u00a0Chaos Walking<\/em> is a grim retread of the YA dystopian story that offers nothing else but a misguided attempt to elevate the genre through more a darker, more \u201cadult\u201d tone. It ends up being little more than a joyless exercise with bad wigs.<\/p>\n

\/Film Rating: 4 out of 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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