“Moon Garden” could have been staged by filmmaker Ryan Stevens Harris as an escape room, a haunted house, or a themed restaurant with spooky dolls and bizarre performers gritting their teeth at you. , is a nightmare tour through the psyche of a small child. break the plate It’s almost as if he chose to make movies only because it’s the easiest way to get people to see his terrifying work.
Harris is a chic melodrama about a little girl named Emma (his own daughter Haven Lee Harris who was 4 years old when the project started) and her miserable parents (Brionne Davies and Auggie Duke). seems bored with the opening sequence of the movie. It wasn’t until Emma’s situation got worse that she fell into a coma, but things got better on screen.
Since “The Wizard of Oz” and “Alice in Wonderland”, the heroines have continued to wander into their own subconscious. Rarely have children been so young and their adventures so dark. Mopeds are kittens as Harris unleashes an army of eerie, practical effects, including tear-jerking stop-motion monsters, bewildering flips, rotting fruit time-lapses, and skin-crawling sound design. Rush through all kinds of mud with great courage. At first, we repel her 90s grunge aesthetic in her videos. Later we admire the power of these visceral expressions of trauma that Emma will one day tell her therapist.
Watching a toddler struggle to clean up the wreckage of a rampaging bride and groom, we feel she already knows she’s the family’s fixer. The film is a poetic expression of Harris’ emotional insight, especially with the line “I wish I’d learned that the world was bigger than I feel”, the Badfinger ballad ” You don’t need three lullaby covers of Without You.
moon garden
Unrated. Running time: 1 hour 33 minutes. at the theater.
