Flower In The Attic Movie Review

Based on other reviews here the book apparently blows the film away but since i ve yet to read it i m just judging my review on the film alone.

Flower in the attic movie review.

The kids then try to keep their spirits high in spite of their bleak situation. Andrews novel passed around like a dirty secret at slumber parties and middle school playgrounds. What hunger games and twilight are for millennials the dollanganger series was for girls who grew up in the 80s and 90s. The grandmother is cruel strict cold and severe looking and controls their behaviour and environment through corporal punishment deprivation judgement authority and humiliation.

Cathy with her long flowing blonde hair is reminiscent of rapunzel or a princess locked up in a dark tower. Incest is a major theme since the children are a product of it and the older siblings eventually become intimate though only kissing is visible. Now this film was re shot and re edited without the directors approval. The review specified flowers in the attic is a good movie.

Flowers both the book and the new movie is completely absurd if you want to gauge the absurdity just know that one of the darkest secrets in the narrative involves a doughnut but somehow. I haven t read the novel so i don t personally know how it compares to the book. The film received a positive review on the cinematic addiction website where it was praised for its acting direction and music. Olivia is disgusted by the children she knows their mother victoria tennant and father were actually cousins and locks the brood in the attic.

Ask any girl in her thirties and she ll likely have an inexplicable soft spot for flowers in the attic that chilling v c. Parents need to know that flowers in the attic is a drama based on a very popular 1980s pulp novel about a family whose children are locked in an attic by a scary mother and grandmother. The book has much more of an icky cringe factor than jerry or jeremy where the salacious details are part of the entertainment of fifteen minutes of the tackiest loudest and most violent people on tv. I went through a flowers in the attic phase years ago lots of people did a guilty guilty pleasure.

The rags to riches story appealed to our fantasy the brother sister incest made it verboten. Flowers in the attic has elements of dark fairy tale.