Overall, most of the performances are lacking-Kidman is wasted to an upsetting degree-with the possible exception of Wright, one of the few cast members who seems to be playing character more than plot. Although the poor dialogue and incredibly awkward handling of some of the action in the final act can’t really be blamed on hm. He’s a black hole at the center of this movie, someone who merely reacts to what is around him, and while Fegley is solid as the child version, poor Ansel Elgort completely loses his way as the older version.
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Over nearly 800 pages, told in first-person, Tartt has the freedom to get readers into the development of Theodore Decker in ways that they simply never figured out how to replicate on film. If all of this sounds like deep, philosophical material, much of it is in Tartt’s book, but Peter Straughan’s incredibly frustrating screenplay diminishes almost all of the character detail from a book that’s dense with it. Of course, both are incredibly formative, and one of the strongest themes of this narrative is what Paul Auster calls “the music of chance”-the idea that random events, even tragedies, shape us into people we wouldn’t otherwise be. With his mother dead and his father MIA, young Theo becomes a part of two worlds-that of an upper-class family that takes him in, led by a matriarch played by Nicole Kidman, and the antiques shop run by Hobie.
Theo awoke and took the painting, something that had survived for centuries, handed down over generations, but now looks like it could get lost in the grief spiral that Theo is about to enter over the next two decades of his life.īefore taking the painting, Theo is handed a ring by a dying man, and told to take it back to his partner Hobie ( Jeffrey Wright). Theo ( Oakes Fegley) was there with his mother when a terrorist attack happened, killing her and others, and leaving rubble.
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The title of the book and movie refers to a painting that was on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art on the day that Theo Decker’s life changed forever.
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