S Reignite

  ‘Sometimes I can't believe you’re my daughter either' – Gabriela After changing school in the middle of the year Mia struggles to fit in while also dealing with her body changing.   When I read the tagline of a ‘normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations’, this is definitely not what I expected. I assumed I’d be watching a coming of age about a teenager trying to fit in and potential falling in love. Instead Brühlmann uses the medium of teenage struggles to play with supernatural ideas. Watching Mia react to her body changing in ways, which at first seemed mundane, made me think Mia was going crazy. And after watching her shove her hand in a fish tank to catch and eat a goldfish, I feel this is a logical reaction. I don’t know what it is with European films and raw meat. The French film RAW (2016) has a much more concerning portrayal of its protagonist’s urge to eat uncooked meat, which I just couldn’t sit through. The role of raw meat in Blue My Mi...

‘He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes’ – Narrator The second instalment of the Shining written by King lacks horror as much as the first but is a much more pleasant read.   In Doctor Sleep Dan Torrance struggles to find his place in life and is caught off guard when he becomes connected to Abra Stone, a young girl with the shining. The book spends a lot of time following Dan as he uses the wrong methods to cope with what his father has done even decades later and consequently is unable to settle down. This novel gives Dan the voice that he didn’t have in The Shining due to his age, so it is interesting to see how he has developed. King writes about both Dan and Abra at points in their lives when they are finding themselves which makes the book a page turner as you become invested in each character’s journey. Suspense is then added to this by the threat of the True Knot. As the element of the True Knot becomes more prevalent in ...