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The banner saga romance1/7/2024 ![]() ‘Normal People’: Meet the Naked, Moody Millennials Horning Up Your Quarantineīut it’s not just Tate helping Kya in Where the Crawdads Sing-a whole squadron of Barkley Cove residents rally around her. Or because he was “in love.” But how can you be in love with someone who can barely communicate with you? It’s a gripe with the movie I never got past. ![]() Similar to Stranger Things’ Mike and El (who cannot communicate with humans in the first season of the series), I felt agitated watching a man carve out a whole human life for his woman-seemingly just so he could get in her pants. ![]() It’s impossible to empathize with this couple when this man is fetishizing infantilism. She has no personality, other than being gorgeous, broken, and needing his help. Though their sex scenes are steamy and they have great chemistry, there’s little reason for Tate to fall in love with the wild woman of the marsh. There are obvious scenes of a savior complex with Tate, who finds their educational dynamic titillating in a way that I found really off putting. That romance in Where the Crawdads Sing hinges on the fact that Tate (Taylor John Smith)-a smart, kind, handsome young boy-teaches Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) how to read and write. Nor could I get past the uncomfortable, somewhat gross relationship at the center of the film. (The Oscar-winner produced the film under her Hello Sunshine banner.) But no matter how juicy the mystery at the center of the story got-and it gets fairly intense-I couldn’t shake my discomfort over scandalous reports about Delia Owens, who wrote the book and is wanted for questioning in an actual murder. Sure, the Reese Witherspoon of it all is irresistible. Sure, lead Daisy Edgar-Jones is spellbinding. Sure, the book it’s based on is incredibly popular. There are people who are going to undoubtedly love the new film Where the Crawdads Sing, the gripping murder thriller that hit theaters this weekend.
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