Saturday, October 03, 2020

Freaks (2018)

A father overly isolates his daughter and when she manages to escape, she discovers a world that's quite different from what she imagined.

A Sci-Fi drama that's partly action but in a very subtle way and only to make a certain point. With X-Men elements (people with superpowers), the focus falls on a family that wants just standard safety for their children, perfectly human traits, here transformed by an exaggerated hatred the "normal" people have over the powered ones. This hatred is overly exaggerated and dehumanized but the structure of the story based on this particular idea is well written and plausible and unexpected, resulting in a film with a snowball effect in a very positive way.

Director:  Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein   
With:  Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew

Rating: 8/10

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