{"id":243780,"date":"2021-05-06T21:33:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/family-drama-is-mythical-but-not-memorable\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T21:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:33:27","slug":"family-drama-is-mythical-but-not-memorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/family-drama-is-mythical-but-not-memorable\/","title":{"rendered":"#Family drama is mythical, but not memorable"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Family drama is mythical, but not memorable<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 92 minutes. Rated PG (mature theme<\/a>s). In theaters.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Actor David Oyelowo\u2019s debut as a director, \u201cThe Water Man,\u201d is a very nice movie that\u2019s a lot like a bunch of other very nice movies<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gunner\u2019s mom (Rosario Dawson<\/a>) is dying of cancer, and the awkward young bookworm is determined to save her. So he borrows everything written on leukemia from the library and asks her doctor to prescribe different meds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nothing works, but then Gunner (Lonnie Chavis) hears the legend of the Water Man, a local myth about a guy who miraculously woke up after drowning only to become immortal. He is said to live in the forest on the edge of town, constantly searching the river for his dead wife.<\/p>\n

Gunner hatches a scheme to find the Water Man and learn the secret to everlasting life, so his mother can be cured. He runs away, and his worried pop (Oyelowo), who he has an up-and-down relationship with, feverishly searches for him.<\/p>\n

Watching the pleasant-enough film, I thought of Natalie Babbitt\u2019s novel \u201cTuck Everlasting,\u201d about a woodland family that doesn\u2019t age. Patrick Ness\u2019 book \u201cA Monster Calls,\u201d which is the story of a boy who is visited in the night by a beast while his mother is dying of cancer, also popped in.<\/p>\n

Neither of those are the Mona Lisa of young-adult fiction, but both cast a spell with an otherworldly atmosphere and deep emotional investment. \u201cWater Man\u201d is similar, yet watered down.<\/p>\n

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Jo (Amiah Miller, left) and Gunner (Lonnie Chavis, right) go on a journey through the woods to find a magical being in \u201cThe Water Man.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another recognizable trope is the teen girl who helps Gunner attempt to find the creature. Her name is Jo (Amiah Miller), and she has blue-green hair and a \u201ccross me and I\u2019ll punch you\u201d personality. Characters like Jo are the new manic-pixie dream girl \u2014 let\u2019s call them the maddened, bitchy goth girl. They still exist as sherpas for lost men, but they\u2019re not so flirty anymore.<\/p>\n

The best part of \u201cWater Man\u201d is Gunner\u2019s frayed relationship with his father, sensitively played by Oyelowo. He wants his kid to play baseball, not read and draw cartoons. He thinks Lonnie\u2019s flights of fancy are stressing out mom, and therefore exacerbating her illness. But when Gunner runs away to the woods, he finds a new appreciation for his kid.<\/p>\n

Off-screen, Oyelowo moves the camera elegantly, and he creates a few cool moments in the woods. There is a surprise stampede of horses and a waterfall of beetles. However, unlike its title character, \u201cThe Water Man\u201d won\u2019t endure forever.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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