Review 467: Sharp Objects
When the bonds of family break, can you ever put them back together? That's the question that Sharp Objects wants us to ponder - a stylish, engrossing, highly addictive miniseries bolstered by a captivating leading performance by Amy Adams.Based on the novel Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, Crime reporter Camille Preaker (Amy Adams), suffering from alcoholism and recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital after years of self-harming, returns to her home town of Wind Gap, Missouri, to investigate the murders of two young girls. The assignment takes her back to her childhood home under the critical eye of her mother Adora Crellin (Patricia Clarkson), a small town socialite which forces Preaker to confront her own personal demons.
The plot is a dark twisted, borderline uncomfortable and unsettling look into the darkest aspects of trauma. It really is a testament to Flynn’s skill as author that the central mystery is so compelling and takes such At its core, Sharp Objects is a murder mystery but it's also a story about recovery, jealousy, trauma and the cycles of abuse. The way it handles these themes is through study of character as opposed to a standard procedural plot. It's about a family that is so damaged by years of intergenerational trauma that they don't know
Sharp Objects is also about the love of family; when the bonds of family break, can you ever put them back together? That question takes a very dark turn
Recovery: Early in the show, it's implied that her sympathetic editor Frank Curry (Miguel Sandoval), actually sent Camille to Wind Gap because he knows that she has some demons she needs to face before she can be whole again.
Jealousy:
We see Cycles of Abuse throughout Sharp Objects: As Camille slowly but surely starts to uncover the mystery, she begins to realise just how deep the the Cycles of Abuse run within her family, from Amma to her mother and even herself and how deeply and profoundly it affects them.
Director Jean-Marc Vallee's direction is stylish and suspenseful crafting an unsettling atmosphere and making excellent useage of reaction shots. The eight part mininseries is driven entirely by Camille and her reactions. Where she goes, the camera follows and we go. Where she looks, we look and the camera shows her reaction to some incredibly disturbing and uncomfortable imagery. the Wind Gap setting is alluring and atmospheric
The cinematography is beautiful and captures the beauty and danger of Wind Gap, Missouri, the production design is splendid, the scenery is beautiful, the costumes are splendid, the soundtrack is as excellently haunting as it is beautifully varied and the effect of
The character of Camille Preaker is very complex and Amy Adams really sinks her teeth into the role and delivers a very gripping, enigmatic performance. Camille is highly affected by the death of her younger sister which she feels in some ways responsible for and the alienation that she experienced throughout her childhood from her mother. She's haunted by a
She's character with a really good spirit but at the same time is a very damaged person; She’s not long removed from a stint in rehab coupled with the fact that she’s still a raging alcoholic. She also has a history of self harm, cutting words such as "Scared" and "Vanish" into her beautiful skin
Recovery: Early in the show, it's implied that her sympathetic editor Frank Curry (Miguel Sandoval), actually sent Camille to Wind Gap because he knows that she has some demons she needs to face before she can be whole again.
Jealousy:
We see Cycles of Abuse throughout Sharp Objects: As Camille slowly but surely starts to uncover the mystery, she begins to realise just how deep the the Cycles of Abuse run within her family, from Amma to her mother and even herself and how deeply and profoundly it affects them.
Director Jean-Marc Vallee's direction is stylish and suspenseful crafting an unsettling atmosphere and making excellent useage of reaction shots. The eight part mininseries is driven entirely by Camille and her reactions. Where she goes, the camera follows and we go. Where she looks, we look and the camera shows her reaction to some incredibly disturbing and uncomfortable imagery. the Wind Gap setting is alluring and atmospheric
The cinematography is beautiful and captures the beauty and danger of Wind Gap, Missouri, the production design is splendid, the scenery is beautiful, the costumes are splendid, the soundtrack is as excellently haunting as it is beautifully varied and the effect of
The character of Camille Preaker is very complex and Amy Adams really sinks her teeth into the role and delivers a very gripping, enigmatic performance. Camille is highly affected by the death of her younger sister which she feels in some ways responsible for and the alienation that she experienced throughout her childhood from her mother. She's haunted by a
She's character with a really good spirit but at the same time is a very damaged person; She’s not long removed from a stint in rehab coupled with the fact that she’s still a raging alcoholic. She also has a history of self harm, cutting words such as "Scared" and "Vanish" into her beautiful skin
Through her investigations of these murders, she uncovers some really disturbing turths about herself, her traumas and her own family. She has a lot pain yet has nowhere to put it.
I was also impressed by It's Sophia Lills as the young Camille Preaker who goes to some very dark, unsettling places in her childhood and nailed the character's sense of and loss of innocence.
Camille's emotionally distant and cold mother Adora is a character with an equally dark and messed up past and Patricia Clarkson absolutely nailed it playing such an awful matriarch. Adora is someone who has ma everything about herself.
Camille's emotionally distant and cold mother Adora is a character with an equally dark and messed up past and Patricia Clarkson absolutely nailed it playing such an awful matriarch. Adora is someone who has ma everything about herself.
Through Amma, we get to the see the causes and effects of hurt, manipulation and pain from Adora and newcomer Eliza Scanlen exerptly brings to life her troubling behavior in some deeply unsettling ways that are uncomfortable to watch.
Chris Messina (in a Julie and Julia reunion with Adams) Richard represents something of a safe haven for Camille. He's someone who's also investigating the mysterious killings and like Camille, he wants to get out of Wind Gap as fast as humanly possible. Adams and Messina share the same sizzling chemistry that they did in Julie and Julia
Henry Czerny Alan is a passive and quiet character who's are somewhat ambiguous. True, he never shows any complicity in Adora's
Lulu Wilson
4.5/5.
The Anonymous Critic.
4.5/5.
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