![]() ![]() She wanted young readers to value individualism, but she wasn’t going to placate tykes into swallowing her ideas like a game of here-comes-the-airplane. L’Engle trusted that kids were even tougher than that. There’s truth in confronting the weak parts of yourself that kids early on learn to hide away, and a great shot of young Reid with her charming knock-kneed sprint racing to scream her own worth into the great unknown. It reduces the whole universe to one girl’s self-esteem.Īs a former girl myself, I remember carrying insecurities that felt bigger than all the planets combined. The film is tentative and over-protective, as though it’s terrified that a story empowering kids to help good battle evil could give someone a nightmare. However, this Wrinkle in Time doesn’t seem made for the kind of actual, human children who dogeared the five-paperback series with playground-grimy nails muttering the words “tesseract” and “liverwurst” to themselves like mysterious incantations. It’s high time adults between 18 and seven billion loosen their death grip on action figures and hand children’s entertainment back to children. It feels like the most sincere shot in the movie.ĭuVernay’s updated L’Engle is totally for kids. In one scene, a flying Charles Wallace stretches out a small hand to stroke Winfrey’s cheek. Twice the size of everyone else and with her hair curled into an interplanetary fleur de lis, she looms and bobs and radiates love upon all the lesser beings onscreen and in seats. Winfrey alights in Meg and Charles Wallace’s backyard as though astrologically assured that she’s the star of the film. They are glitter dolls flung into a technicolor void.įorget the tykes. The design decree is: “More!” Mrs Whatsit, Winfrey’s Mrs Which and Mindy Kaling’s Mrs Who are plated in extravagant ruffles and braids, but their outfits are such a heedless hot-glue assault, they don’t say a thing about who these characters individually are. (Maybe even closer to death than that – I wouldn’t want to be within a mile of Oprah Winfrey when she realizes her sequined eyebrows just look super silly.) The costumes are at once cluttered and vacuous. That Witherspoon looks like a toga party keg-stand champion befits DuVernay’s modern vision of a paperback classic bedazzled to within an inch of its life. ![]()
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