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“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I really enjoyed ‘Short Term 12’, I was really eager to check Destin Daniel Cretton’s following directing effort which was also starring Brie Larson. Well, to be honest, I had a hard time to judge this movie. Indeed, I have always been intrigued by alternative lifestyles, probably due to the fact that my father had travelled for 3 years around the world when he was younger, but, unfortunately, pretty much like with ‘Captain Fantastic’, it turned out to be another movie constantly arguing that such alternative lifestyles are basically doomed to fail. On the other hand, what the alternative lifestyle consisted in this time was never clearly defined. I mean, it seemed that they were mostly in financial tro” read more
" DVD- 2hrs. 7min. First Viewing It's exceedingly unsubtle, and the framing device doesn't feel as important as the film tries to make it out as being (it could have been told chronologically with more depth), but The Glass Castle often works through sheer force; a compelling story, solid filmmaking, and superb acting). It isn't authentic on a storytelling level, but it is on an emotional one; sure it pulls it's punches in its approach to the Walls parents (they aren't presented particularly well"