The poster for this made it out to be a feel-good coming of age movie but the graphic violence at the beginning was enough to nearly walk us out the door. I kept thinking 'there must be some redeeming feature', and by the end I realized there was, though I'm not sure everyone would see it like that. For me it was like a karass in Vonnegut's The Cat's Cradle, defined on google as: "the Bokononist term for a group of people brought together to do God's work-though the purpose of that work is not something they can ever be fully aware of." I thought that was what this movie was about, and Addie was the person who somehow brought it all together. It did have a happy ending of sorts, sort of like The Black Phone. It's not as if Balli's journey from nearly sub-human to happy kid just happened, and it wasn't some cinematic bit of gift wrapping. I guess one might think that it came out of the blue... if one didn't understand the movie at all. The movie also reminded me so much of some Almodóvar films, especially "Habla con ella".(which also had some weird dream sequences) There were miracles in both.
Review of Beautiful Beings
