Tim Burton returns with a peculiar bird in “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children”
By Jenny A.
Photos courtesy: 20th Century Fox
From visionary director Tim Burton, and based upon the best-selling novel, comes an unforgettable motion picture experience. Full of mysterious, deranged, quirky, horror-filled tale, but it just isn’t. The film was clearly full a collection of peculiar and unsettling moments, and the plot reaches the level of creepy of the visual materials where the viewer will feel like being part of the characters. All begins when Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is.
During 127 minutes, the film gets a lot of well-deserved attention for the way it incorporates unusual antique photographs into the narrative and the ambience is very original and despite this story starts with a strange friendship and Jakes grew up on his grandfather’s stories about his own childhood during World War II. Supposedly his grandfather escaped the Holocaust by taking refuge on a Welsh island, at an orphanage that catered to children with strange powers. The grandfather even has photos to prove it. As Jakes grows up, he loses faith in his grandfather, and assumes the stories were fantasies, the photos faked. But when a horrible, inexplicable tragedy occurs, he has to reevaluate. Could those stories have been real?
Definitely, it is an original story because involve the frightened hollows, despite the plot turns long in some parts and the story became weak, at the end, the visual effects the lost real lives associated with the pictures justified them with good performances of the main cast such as Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson. Some of them were very well characterized.
