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Gifted full movie 20178/30/2023 ![]() When kids are taught at an early age that they can’t have friendships with kids poorer or less bright than them, he says, “That’s how you get senators.” Oh, snap! (We also learn that Frank is a former philosophy professor, a trick that might come from either Snyder’s book or Road House.) Unfortunately, Gifted’s cutesy classroom scenes are not quite up to the task of digging into how Mary fits in with her classmates, and the film quickly gives way to increasingly caricatured depictions of the cold-blooded Boston campuses Evelyn takes Mary to (overcast, beige, white) and the humble, soulful duplex Frank calls home (magic hour, brilliant turquoise, Octavia Spencer lives next door.) It’s easy to side with Chris Evans, with or without the cats, especially when Frank brings up the virtues of letting “genius” children grow up alongside their non-genius peers. Outside of its open and shameless heartstring tugging, Gifted at least sets up a compelling, multisided moral dilemma. ![]() When Mary’s precocity is brought to the attention of her first-grade teacher, Bonnie (Jenny Slate), and later, the school principal and child services, Frank does two things: sleep with Bonnie, and get embroiled in an ugly court battle with Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), his mother and Mary’s grandmother, who wants nothing more than to be the momager to another child genius. But by the time we catch up to them, Mary is already turning out to be quite the prodigy herself, something that Frank is in vehement denial about. Honoring his sister’s not-quite-official wishes, Frank whisked her away from her stuffy MIT-geek milieu and settled with Mary in Florida, to live a simple but virtuous life as a normal child. Gifted, a movie where Captain America plays a single guardian of an adorable genius child, is already a triple-decker ice-cream cake of sympathy, but someone must have thought it needed a little more icing: In the film’s climax, Chris Evans saves not one, but three cats.Įvans plays Frank, a beer-and-T-shirt type whom one character helpfully refers to as “the damaged hot guy.” Frank is the caretaker of Mary (Mckenna Grace) the 7-year-old child of his sister, a math genius who committed suicide when Mary was still an infant. The idea of “saving the cat,” one weird screenplay trick coined by Blake Snyder, is so dumb it can seem genius the first time you hear it: In order for us to sympathize with the hero, he must save a cat - or dog, or small child, or whatever - in the first act. Het ligt er bij Amerikaanse films uiteraard altijd dubbeldik op en er zit een bitterzoet randje aan de film maar die Engelse moeder in de film, welke als de Heks in Sneeuwwitje wordt geportretteerd, had mijns inziens nochtans wel degelijk gelijk.Octavia Spencer, Mckenna Grace, and Chris Evans in Gifted. Je moet hoogbegaafde mensen juist niet anders behandelen dan de gemiddelde mens waar het sociale omgang aangaat. ![]() ![]() Dit soort films zendt een valse boodschap die ongehoord zou moeten blijven. Het maakt bovengemiddeld intelligente mensen tot freaks. Niet omdat het juist die mensen speciaal maakt, maar juist omdat het de "hoi polloi" bestendigt in hun normale zijn in de maatschappij. Steevast dezelfde trucjes om het kippenvel op niet-begaafde armpjes te voorschijn te toveren - wat is dat toch een perverse behoefte van sommige scriptschrijvers! Doen de kinderen die niet hoger tikken dan een IQ van 100 er soms niet langer meer toe? Onderscheidingen zijn tekens opgespeld door middelmatige mensen bij bovengemiddelde mensen.
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